Animals Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is the cruelest animal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Error has turned animals into men; might truth be capable of turning man into an animal again?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is the most bungled of all the animals, the sickliest, and not one has strayed more dangerously from its instincts. But…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche