Quotes About Humanity

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going.

The great problems are to be encountered in the street.

Error has turned animals into men; might truth be capable of turning man into an animal again?

The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.

The disappointed man speaks.—I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the apes of their ideal.

Ja volim onog ?ija se duša rasipa, koji ne?e da mu kažu hvala, niti sam kaže hvala: jer on uvek daje i ne?e da se sa?uva.

That the other suffers must be learned; and it can never be learned completely.

Ng??i ta sát h?i không ph?i b?ng cÆ¡n ph?n ná»™ Ä'iên cu?ng, mà chính b?ng ti?ng c??i

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims, all great things have first to wander about the earth as enormous and awe-inspiring caricatures:

in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.

The earth', he said, 'has a skin; and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example, humanity.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind?--They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

There is not enough love and kindness in the world to permit us to give any of it away to imaginary beings.

It is a trick of Christianity to teach the utter worthlessness, sinfulness, and despicableness of man in general so loudly that disdain for one's fellow men becomes impossible.

Even the wisest among you is only a confusion and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I ask you to become phantoms or plants?

dalam keramahan tidak ada kebencian terhadap manusia--inilah mengapa begitu banyak hal yang menjijikkan

To estimate what a type of man is worth, one must calculate the price paid for his preservation — one must know the conditions of his existence.

Thus do the gods justify the life of man: they themselves live it--the only satisfactory theodicy!

In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become the one world-being, he suffers in his own person the primordial contradiction that is concealed in things, which means that he commits sacrilege and suffers.

There is no eternal justice.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

Bad men have no songs'.* – How is it the Russians have songs?

The seventh way to be noble: always being disguised, for the higher the type, the more a man requires an incognito. If God existed, he would be obliged to show himself to the world only as a man.