Men Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The free man is a warrior.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some men are born posthumously.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man makes god in his own image.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man must become better and more evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche