Stupid Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

13 Stupid quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nietzsche’s sharp intellect pierces the veil of stupidity in these thirteen quotes, turning each into a concise philosophical jab that challenges complacent thinking.

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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

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Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

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They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful…

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But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity,…

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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

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Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us…

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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an…

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There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for…

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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it…

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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these…

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

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Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but…

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“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”

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“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”

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“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…

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

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“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

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