Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Shame

• If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Enemy, Shame

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.79, Penguin

• The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Overcoming, Would Be

• One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vanity, Honest, Shame

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Christopher Middleton (1996). “Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.46, Hackett Publishing

• A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Destiny, Men, Decision

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

• The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, People, Guilt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

• We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Guilt, Shame, Guilty

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.44, Courier Corporation

• One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Thinking, Guilt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

• It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Men, Guilt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.41, Courier Corporation

• Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Needs, Shame, Ashamed

• What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shame, Humane, Regard

• Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Respect, Divinity, Shame

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1995). “Philosophical writings”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

• Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Distance, Blessed, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.127, Penguin

• When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Enemy, Add

• Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Shame, Intimacy

• The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Expectations, Perspective

• When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Grateful, Shame

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.201, Vintage

• Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Shame, Badness

• I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Men, Monsters

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