The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate? And what in the world has caused more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“the pity which the spectators then exhibit is in so far a consolation for the weak and suffering in that the latter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth;… — 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… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
