Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Human Nature

• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

• Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tyrants, Noses, Ethics

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• 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 the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Ego, Hateful

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.296, Cambridge University Press

• Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Adversity, Facts, Human Nature

• To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Human Nature, Natural

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Men, Insanity

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