A collection of quotations from good ol' Nietzsche.
Are you familiar with Rick Roderick’s lectures on Nietzsche? They’re all on Youtube and are pretty entertaining and I think do Nietzsche a decent amount of justice. Have a good one.
(IDK why this turned out like this, but…) Thank you! I’ll check that out.
We do not dispute what is magical or irrational when it flatters our self-esteem.
— Human, All Too Human, Part I, Section Nine by Friedrich Nietzsche
The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man.
— Human, All Too Human, Part I, Section Nine by Friedrich Nietzsche
We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but usually the other person does not forget it.
— Human, All Too Human, Part I, Section Nine by Friedrich Nietzsche
Often, other people’s vicious talk about us is not actually aimed at us, but expresses their annoyance or ill humour arising from quite different reasons.
— Human, All Too Human, Part I, Section Nine by Friedrich Nietzsche
There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier — their Christianity, for example.
— Human, All Too Human, Part I, Section Nine by Friedrich Nietzsche
When man howls with laughter, he surpasses all animals by his coarseness.
— Human, All Too Human, Part I, Section Nine by Friedrich Nietzsche
He who sees little, always sees less; he who hears poorly, always hears something more.
— Human, All Too Human, Part I, Section Nine by Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is more sensitive to contempt from others than to contempt from himself.
— Human, All Too Human, Part I, Section Nine by Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong currents draw many stones and bushes along with them; strong minds many stupid and muddled heads.
— Human, All Too Human, Part I, Section Nine by Friedrich Nietzsche
