"Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other ...
Man is the cruelest animal.
More Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
"What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
"Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, st...
"When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!
"Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the nobl...
"today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it isalmost an ordeal, which would make us seem very strange and incomprehensibleto the...
"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.
"Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies ...
"But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword...
"The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.
"Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)