Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man. Friedrich Nietzsche pain suffering men There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. Friedrich Nietzsche belief ifs believe The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school. Friedrich Nietzsche army government school Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins. Friedrich Nietzsche truth knowledge thinking Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses. Friedrich Nietzsche hate giving people I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say. Friedrich Nietzsche admire courage said Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal. Friedrich Nietzsche radiance gold doe Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness. Friedrich Nietzsche shyness generosity kind Respectability offends my taste. Friedrich Nietzsche respectability taste What is the strongest cure?--Victory. Friedrich Nietzsche cures medicine victory We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations. Friedrich Nietzsche pity want feelings The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy. Friedrich Nietzsche daggers envy sometimes Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself. Friedrich Nietzsche sensitive contempt men In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. Friedrich Nietzsche too-much hatred men Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated. Friedrich Nietzsche annoying causes way He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much. Friedrich Nietzsche gratitude accepting too-much With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring. Friedrich Nietzsche men long fall All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings. Friedrich Nietzsche causes believe world Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings. Friedrich Nietzsche childhood character children Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey. Friedrich Nietzsche teaching leadership children
