Men Quotes
Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.
You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.
Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her
It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!
Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.
Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.
What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.
When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.
The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.
In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.
And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.
A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.
'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.
Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.
Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.
Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
