Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Mankind

• Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Politics, Transformation, Mankind

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

• Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gestures, Reason, Mankind

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1990). “Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ”, p.172, Penguin UK

• Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Believe, Fate

• 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

• One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Cities, People

• The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Sleep, Passion

• O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Ignorance, Simple

• The love of power is the demon of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupidity, Demon, Desire For Power

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

• The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Pride, Animal

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

• The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Destiny, Happy Times

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.198, Courier Corporation

• It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Genius, Talent, Periods

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.127, Courier Corporation

• The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Inward, Tradition

• It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suffering, Facts, Individual

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.34, Courier Corporation

• All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Slave, Mankind, All Time

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.150, Courier Corporation

• Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tasks, Genius, Individual

• 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

• There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Age, Recognition

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.171, Courier Corporation

• Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Mean, Waiting

• It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Opinion, Existence

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

• What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Errors, Lasts

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

• There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Harmony, Mankind, Well Being

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

• Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Quality, Degrees, Demand

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.46, Penguin

• The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Work, Women, Mean

• On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Wall, Revenge

• Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Mean, Past

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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