Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human Quotes
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.
In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at best only mediocre.
None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.
He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.
The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.
When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.
