Humans Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, all too human.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

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A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

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In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human…

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The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the…

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human…

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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

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

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So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being,…

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[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in…

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The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in…

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All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to…

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All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with…

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To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the…

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“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means…

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Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We…

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be…

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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral…

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

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Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible…

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

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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,…

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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic…

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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or…

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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made…

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Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

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The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

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Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them…

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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born,…

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The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has…

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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is…

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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best…

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The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

— Friedrich Nietzsche