--- title: "4 Arrogant Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche" description: "4 Arrogant quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche. Plus more from Friedrich Nietzsche and more Arrogant sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97d/friedrich-nietzsche-15_arrogant_the-soul-must-have-its-chosen-sewers-to_617844.jpg" --- > [The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-soul-must-have-its-chosen-sewers-to-carry-away-its-ordure-this/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97d/friedrich-nietzsche-15_arrogant_the-soul-must-have-its-chosen-sewers-to_617844.jpg) > [Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/read-from-a-distant-star-the-majuscule-script-of-our-earthly/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36b/friedrich-nietzsche-15_arrogant_read-from-a-distant-star-the-majuscule-s_990873.jpg) > [The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-demand-to-be-loved-is-the-greatest-of-all-arrogant-presumptions/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa8/friedrich-nietzsche-15_arrogant_the-demand-to-be-loved-is-the-greatest-o_2171154.jpg) > [A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/a-person-unlearns-arrogance-when-he-knows-he-is-always-among-worthy/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a1/friedrich-nietzsche-15_arrogance_a-person-unlearns-arrogance-when-he-know_2348972.jpg) ## Other authors on Arrogant - [Mokokoma Mokhonoana 13 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrogant/mokokoma-mokhonoana/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-toba-beta-105.jpg) Toba Beta 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrogant/toba-beta/) - [Robin Sacredfire 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrogant/robin-sacredfire/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-suzy-kassem-596.jpg) Suzy Kassem 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrogant/suzy-kassem/) - [Craig D. 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Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-breaks-my-heart-better-than-your-words-your-eye-tells-me-all-your/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/79-a-soul-which-knows-that-it-is-loved-but-does-not-itself-love/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-deceive-ourselves-when-giving-respect-to-the-person-for-whom-we/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-great-periods-of-our-life-occur-when-we-gain-the-courage-to/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-life-life-that-is-continually-shedding-something-that-wants/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-thus-only-this-personal-feeling-of-misery-that-we-get-rid-of-by/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/writers-whose-thoughts-are-expressed-with-clarity-and-precision-are/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-does-not-wear-a-twitching-mobile-human-face-but-rather-a-mask-as/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/chastity-is-a-virtue-with-some-but-with-many-it-is-almost-a-vice/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-earth-is-like-the-breasts-of-a-woman-useful-as-well-as-pleasing/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/of-all-that-is-written-i-love-only-what-a-man-has-written-in-his-own/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/no-shepherd-and-one-herd-everybody-wants-the-same-everybody-is-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [Pain makes hens and poets cackle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/pain-makes-hens-and-poets-cackle/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrogant/friedrich-nietzsche/#itemlist", "name": "4 Arrogant Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. 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