Aphorism Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image ““Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.”” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aphorism Culture Philosophy Social-criticism
“The spiritual atrophying of contemporary culture may be due in large measure to its loss of sensitivity to processes in the collective unconscious.” — Terrence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Culture has very much to do with the human spirit. What we find beautiful or entertaining or moving is rooted in our spiritual life. ” — Kenneth A. Myers Copy Share Image
Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“there is great danger that modern culture, progressing in its anti-supernaturalistic course, will be stirred against the steadfastness of believers and attempt to accomplish… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Culture is a sacred activity, an exercise in the sphere of religion.” — Henry R. Van Til Copy Share Image
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Culture is any and all human effort and labor expended upon the cosmos, to unearth its treasures and its riches and bring them into… — Henry R Van Til Copy Share Image
“Religious faith always transcends culture, and is the integrating principle and power of man's cultural striving.” — Henry R. Van Til Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image