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The Vain Person Wants to Feel Exceptional, Not Be Exceptional

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The vain person does not want to be exceptional; they want to feel themselves exceptional. So they cannot refuse the tools of self-deception and self-scheming. What they cannot forget is not other people's opinions but their own thoughts about other people's opinions. (406p) 

From Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Kim Mi-gi, Human, All Too Human 1 (Chaeksesang) 


I found Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human on my shelf and pulled it out for the first time in a long while. I found a good passage and share it here. "The vain person does not want to be exceptional; they want to feel themselves exceptional." Vain-glory — prizing appearances without substance. What matters, I thought, is the healthy mindset of actually wanting to be excellent. 


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This English version was translated by Claude.

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