Pity Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity makes suffering contagious.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as…

— 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

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy…

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If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to…

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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

“Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate? And what in the world has caused more…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in…

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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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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

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“the pity which the spectators then exhibit is in so far a consolation for the weak and suffering in that the latter…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives…

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“However powerfully pity affects us, it nevertheless saves us in a way from the primordial suffering of the world, just”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If…

— Friedrich Nietzsche