Quotes About Humanity

All the means by which one has so far attempted to make mankind moral were through and through immoral.

The fool interrupts — The writer of this book is no misanthrope; today one pays too dearly for hatred of man.

Apart from the ascetic ideal, man, the human animal, had no meaning so far. His existence on earth contained no goal; "why man at all? – was a question without an answer…

Thus spoke the devil to me once: God too has his hell: it is his love of man....And most recently I heard him speak this word: God is dead: God died of his pity for man. —On the Pitying

Au existat pân? acum o mie de scopuri, c?ci au existat o mie de popoare. Doar lanÅ£ul pe cele-o mie de capete lipseÅŸte, lipseÅŸte înc? un singur scop. Umanitatea n-are înc? scop. Dar spuneÅ£i-mi, voi, fraÅ£i ai mei: dac? umanit??ii îi lipseÅŸte scopul, nu-nseamn? oare c? ea îns??i nu exist? înc??

The former morality, namely Kant's, demanded of the individual actions which one desired of all men: that was a very naive thing;

Today a man with knowledge might easily feel like god transformed into an animal.

Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.

Así me dijo el demonio una vez: «También Dios tiene su infierno: es su amor a los hombres.»

The fact that humanity knelt down before the opposite of the origin, the meaning, the right of the evangel, the fact that in the concept of 'church', humanity canonized the very thing the 'bearer of glad tidings' felt to be beneath him, behind him - you will not find a greater example of world-historical irony - -

Since humanity came into being, man hath enjoyed himself too little: that alone, my brethren, is our original sin! And when we learn better to enjoy ourselves, then do we unlearn best to give pain unto others, and to contrive pain. Therefore do I wash the hand that hath helped the sufferer; therefore do I wipe also my soul. For in seeing the sufferer suffering – thereof was I ashamed on account of his shame; and in helping him, sorely did I wound his pride.

Hold the capacity of feeling to be the most important and elemental, as providing the foundation for every sound and real growth; everything that is truly great and human.

Há dias em que se apodera de mim um sentimento mais negro que a mais negra melancolia – o desprezo dos homens.

There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!...

I am by far the most terrible human being that has existed so far; this does not preclude the possibility that I shall be the most beneficial.

adventurers and circumnavigators of that inner world which is called "human being

This the Church understood: it corrupted the human being, it weakened him – but it claimed to have 'improved' him…

We new philosophers, however, not only do we begin by presenting the actual gradations in rank and variations in value among us but we also desire the very opposite of an assimilation, an equalizing: we teach estrangement in every sense, we tear open gaps as never were, we want man to become more wicked than he ever was.

Enemy you shall say but not villain, sick you shall say but not wretch, fool you shall say but not sinner.

O my friends! Thus speaketh the discerning one: shame, shame, shame—that is the history of man!

Aside from a few philosophers, men have always placed pity rather low in the hierarchy of moral feelings—and rightly so.

For the highest man shall also be the highest lord on earth. There is no sorer misfortune in all human destiny, than when the mighty of the earth are not also the first men. Then everything becomes false and distorted and monstrous. And when they are even the last men, and more beast than man, then rises and rises the populace in honour, and at last says even the populace-virtue: 'Behold, I alone am virtue!

Creo que los animales ven en el hombre un ser igual a ellos que ha perdido de forma extraordinariamente peligrosa el sano intelecto animal, es decir, que ven en él al animal irracional, al animal que ríe, al animal que llora, al animal infeliz.

One who understands wanders among humans as among beasts.