Quotes About Man

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

It is a new step towards independence, once a man dares to express opinions that bring disgrace on him if he entertains them; then even his friends and acquaintances begin to grow anxious. The man of talent must pass through this fire, too; afterwards he is much more his own person.

The people told me, however, that the big ear was not only a man, but a great man, a genius. But I never believed in the people when they spake of great men - and I hold to my belief that it was a reversed cripple, who had too little of everything, and too much of one thing.

Thus spoke the devil to me, once on a time: Even God has his hell: it is his love for man. And lately did I hear him say these words: God is dead: of his pity for man has God died.

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man!

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

The sublime man has the highest value, even when he is most delicate and fragile, because an abundance of very difficult and rare things have been bred and united in him.

Among the things that can drive a thinker to despair is the knowledge that the illogical is necessary for man and that much good comes from it.

let man fear woman when she loves. then she bears every sacrifice and every other thing she accounts valueless.

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.

In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.

Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the law of that which is to be.

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

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.

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

I love the great despisers. Man, however, is something that must be overcome.

Virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy." In these three basic forms of optimism lies the death of tragedy.

A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.

Ah, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the pitiful? And what in the world hath caused more suffering than the follies of the pitiful? Woe unto all loving ones who have not an elevation which is above their pity! Thus spake the devil unto me, once on a time: Even God hath his hell: it is his love for man. And lately, did I hear him say these words: God is dead: of his pity for man hath God died.

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

The cult of the madman is also always the cult of him who is rich in vitality, and who is a powerful man.

Man's complete lack of responsibility, for his behavior and for his nature, is the bitterest drop which the man of knowledge must swallow.

That idyllic shepherd of modern man is only a counterfeit, the totality of cultural illusions which he counts as nature.