Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes on Man (22 Quotes)

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

Here the ways of men part if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times he submits to everything

Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better

The belief in authority is the source of conscience which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

Is man merely a mistake of God's Or God merely a mistake of man's

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

Women are quite able to make friends with a man but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Is Wagner actually a man Is he not rather a disease Everything he touches falls ill he has made music sick

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon women at once make it into an ornament

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him better.

Man created his own god and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods

Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.

The masses seem to me worthy of notice in only three respects first as blurred copies of great men, produced on bad paper with worn plates, further as a resistance to the great, and finally as the tools of the great beyond that, may the devil and s

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man

Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him

Do I advise you to love the neighbor I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.

Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself.