top of page
"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?"
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Man quotes

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."

"Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar."
Explore more quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."

"Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society, inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people-"base."

"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."

"And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water."

"Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds."

"It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off."
bottom of page