Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Laziness

• From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Intellectual, Laziness

• Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Men, Laziness

• If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Men, Lazy

  "Untimely Meditations". "Schopenhauer as educator," § 3.1, p. 128. Book by Friedrich Nietzsche (1876), translated by R. J. Hollingdale, 1983.

• Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Lazy, Laziness

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

• Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Eye, Men

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