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Contempt Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence…
- The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
- Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
- Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
- To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought…
- All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".
- The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
- Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
- Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of…
- To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one…
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