Individual Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Only Individuals have a sense of Responsibility”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes…

— 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

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and…

— 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

I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority--…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche