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Human Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the…
- The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same…
- All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations…
- Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and…
- A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.
- In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world…
- Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
- Human, all too human.
- Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How…
- All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past,…
- Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even…
- Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things…
- Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the…
- When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is…
- My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future,…
- I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
- Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide…
- Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
- Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that…
- What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
- There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans…
- Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves…
- Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
- The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong