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> [one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/one-does-not-only-wish-to-be-understood-when-one-writes-one-wishes/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-we-do-is-never-understood-but-always-merely-praised-or-blamed/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/men-after-death-are-understood-worse-than-men-of-the-moment-but-heard/)

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> [Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/whoever-thought-that-he-had-understood-something-of-me-had-merely/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/good-writers-have-two-things-in-common-they-prefer-to-be-understood/)

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> [Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/posthumous-men-myself-for-example-are-not-as-well-understood-as/)

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> [Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/men-who-think-deeply-appear-to-be-comedians-in-their-dealings-with/)

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> [Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/could-truth-perhaps-be-a-woman-who-has-reasons-for-not-permitting-her/)

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> [Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/logic-too-also-rests-on-assumptions-that-do-not-correspond-to/)

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> [O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/o-sancta-simplicitas-what-strange-simplification-and-falsification/)

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> [Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/has-anyone-any-distinct-notion-of-what-poets-of-a-stronger-age/)

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## Other authors on Understood

## More by Friedrich Nietzsche

> [Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/animals-know-nothing-of-themselves-and-they-also-know-nothing-of-the/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-select-man-strives-instinctively-for-a-citadel-and-a-privacy/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-breaks-my-heart-better-than-your-words-your-eye-tells-me-all-your/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/79-a-soul-which-knows-that-it-is-loved-but-does-not-itself-love/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-deceive-ourselves-when-giving-respect-to-the-person-for-whom-we/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-great-periods-of-our-life-occur-when-we-gain-the-courage-to/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-life-life-that-is-continually-shedding-something-that-wants/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-thus-only-this-personal-feeling-of-misery-that-we-get-rid-of-by/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/writers-whose-thoughts-are-expressed-with-clarity-and-precision-are/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-does-not-wear-a-twitching-mobile-human-face-but-rather-a-mask-as/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/chastity-is-a-virtue-with-some-but-with-many-it-is-almost-a-vice/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-earth-is-like-the-breasts-of-a-woman-useful-as-well-as-pleasing/)

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> [“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/of-all-that-is-written-i-love-only-what-a-man-has-written-in-his-own/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/no-shepherd-and-one-herd-everybody-wants-the-same-everybody-is-the/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [Pain makes hens and poets cackle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/pain-makes-hens-and-poets-cackle/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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