People Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Certitude drives people mad.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The English are the people of consummate cant.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected.…

— 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

“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

— Friedrich Nietzsche