Quotes About Humanity

I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

Ein Gott ist der Mensch, wenn er träumt, ein Bettler, wenn er nachdenkt.

Voll Verdienst, doch dichterisch, wohnet der Mensch auf dieser Erde.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Nothing is beautiful, except man alone: all aesthetics rests upon this naÔvetÈ, which is its first truth. Let us immediately add the second: nothing is ugly except the degenerating manóand with this the realm of aesthetic judgment is circumscribed.

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason / as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

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

Man is the cruelest animal.

Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind

Man has been placed on that summit where he contains within him the source of self-impulsion toward good and evil in equal measure; the nexus of the principles within him is not a bond of necessity but of freedom. He stands at the dividing line; whatever he chooses will be his act, but he cannot remain in indecision because God must necessarily reveal himself and because nothing at all in creation can remain ambiguous.