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Mankind Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
- The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls…
- There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and…
- The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
- It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
- The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
- It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
- All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.
- Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they…
- What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the…
- The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
- The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,…
- The love of power is the demon of mankind.
- O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!…
- Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How…
- Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part…
- It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
- Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
- Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be…
- Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In…
- Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
- What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
- When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in…
- Man is the cruelest animal.
- A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
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- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams