Humility Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

17 Humility quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nietzsche’s 17 statements on humility might surprise you, as they echo his broader critique of pride. The lines feel like a paradoxical whisper from a thinker who rarely shied away from confronting his own contradictions.

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Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

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Humility has the toughest hide.

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Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

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What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

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Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

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The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the…

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The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among…

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There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for…

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The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire…

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Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their…

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Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

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Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.…

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“They want more, they learn to make claims, the tribute of respect is at last felt to be well-nigh galling; rivalry for…

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“The root of all evil: that the slavish morality of meekness, chastity, selflessness, absolute obedience, has triumphed — ruling natures were thus…

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

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“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”

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“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”

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“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

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