“We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for. In all talk there is a grain of contempt.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche , book Twilight of the Idols

Expeditions of an Untimely Man §26
Wofür wir Worte haben, darüber sind wir auch schon hinaus. In allem Reden liegt ein Gran Verachtung.
Variant translation: That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.'
Twilight of the Idols (1888)

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