A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Humanity is still much more a means than an end. It is the type: the human race is merely the test material,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply...… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday experiences--so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit three times a year, while others--and how many there are!--are driven through surging waves of destiny, the most multifarious currents of the times and the nations, and yet always remain on top, bobbing like a cork,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental feeling… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To love mankind for the sake of God-that has been the most nobel and far-fetched feeling yet achieved by human beings. The idea that without some sanctifying ulterior motive, a love of mankind is just one more brutish stupidity, that the predisposition to such a love must first find its weight, its refinement, its grain of salt and pinch of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Error regarding life necessary to life. - Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on false thinking; it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Anyone who manages to experience the history of humanity as a whole as his own history will feel in an enormously generalized way all the grief of an invalid who thinks of health, of an old man who thinks of the dream of his youth, of a lover deprived of his beloved, of the martyr whose ideal is perishing, of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Why," said the saint, "did I go into the forest and the desert? Was it not because I loved mankind far too… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves. Do you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and revert… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is a comfort to me to know that above the steam and filth of human lowlands there is a higher, brighter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful. You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
![“[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own…” quote by Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aaf/friedrich-nietzsche-15_contrast_heraclitus-did-not-require-humans-or-the_2022658.jpg)
