Precisely

Famous quotes containing the word precisely:

“Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre, it will not suggest a disguise:—and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on—so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Our vanity wishes precisely what we do best to be regarded as what is most difficult to us. On the origin of many a morality.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)