People Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Certitude drives people mad.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The English are the people of consummate cant.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having…

— 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

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

— Friedrich Nietzsche