Conformity Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

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