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"The degree of introspection achieved by Nietzsche had never been achieved by anyone, nor is it ever likely to be achieved again."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

January 1, 1970

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Aphorists 19th-century philosophers Composers from Germany Criticism of Christianity Existentialists

Original Language: English

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Variant: Freud several times said of Nietzsche that he had a more penetrating knowledge of himself than any other man who ever lived or was likely to live. — As reported in Freud, Adler, and Jung (1980) by Walter Arnold Kaufmann, p. 266 (part of this statement has sometimes been taken as a direct quote of Freud, rather than a summation of what he said).

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Variant: Freud several times said of Nietzsche that he had a more penetrating knowledge of himself than any other man who ever lived or was likely to live. — As reported in Freud, Adler, and Jung (1980) by Walter Arnold Kaufmann, p. 266 (part of this statement has sometimes been taken as a direct quote of Freud, rather than a summation of what he said).