Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Stupidity

• To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Stupidity, Purpose

• There's no defense against stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupidity, Defense

• Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupidity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.448, Courier Corporation

• There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Sacrifice, Fate

  "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter III, Aphorism 55, 1886.

• Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.376, Cambridge University Press

• The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupidity, Trying, Fundamentals

• We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Knowledge, Stupidity

• Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Stupid, Character

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.274, Modern Library

• Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Yield, Stupidity

• 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

• Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Knowledge, Thinking

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

• Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Long, Stupidity

• Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Stupidity, Lasts

• Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Childhood, Stupidity, Prejudice

• The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Wind, Stupidity

• Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Stupid, Russia

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

• Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Journey, Goal

• The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dog, Stupidity, Stones

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.49, Penguin

• Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Stupidity, Ends

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.61, Oxford University Press

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