Self Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow…

— 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

And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.…

— 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

When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is... The whole surface of consciousness -…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We don't know ourselves, we knowledgeable people—we are personally ignorant about ourselves. And there's good reason for that. We've never tried to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche