Cynicism Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image ““I love the great despisers. Man, however, is something that must be overcome.”” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynicism
“I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But let me not hate and despise myself too much for these feelings; I know them to be wrong – that is a great… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Nothing we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“It is the hate that is the enemy. Not men. Hate does not die with killing. It only springs up a hundredfold. The only… — Elizabeth George Speare Copy Share Image
“Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all. Hatred floods me.” — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Become all that you can, so all that you despise, never becomes all that you live by.” — Jon Weberg Copy Share Image
“We should respect those able to choose love after enduring a lifetime of hate. It is the least we could do.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman 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
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
There's a distinct unease about Americans when they are outside the United States. I can't say quite what it is, but they are easily… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records,… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
