Best things Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

— David Mitchell

People hate what they can't conquer, envy what they can't get, and destroy what they already have.

— Anonymous

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

— Terry Eagleton

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…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

— Plutarch

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

— Henry David Thoreau

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in…

— Orson Scott Card

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under…

— Erich Fromm

“Humans want to conquer everyone they can, and buy everything they see. I think this is because humans have forgotten how to be happy.…

— A.S. King

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely…

— Robert Morrison MacIver

It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are…

— John Stuart Mill