Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Euthanasia

• One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Humorous, Profound

  The Twilight of the Idols

• You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shoes, People, World

• Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tired, Blow, Light

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.138, Courier Corporation

• It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Hands, Birth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.330, Penguin

• We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Long Ago, Should Have

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.51, Courier Corporation

• In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Euthanasia, States, Certain

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.329, Penguin

• One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Euthanasia, Oneself

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.72, Friedrich Nietzsche

• To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Goes On, Meaning Of Life

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.329, Penguin

• One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hands, Mercy, Euthanasia

• The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Usual, Euthanasia, Mankind

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.32, Courier Corporation

• Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Independent, Long, Substance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.422, Courier Corporation

• 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 next comes marriage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Order, Next, Birth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.170, 谷月社

• A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Poison, Littles

• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Suicide, Children

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.72, Friedrich Nietzsche

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