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For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Goal, Humanity

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear, Humanity, Atheism
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.40, Penguin

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Self, Humanity, Overcoming
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.233, Vintage

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Discipline, Humanity

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, Order, Humanity

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Humanity, Christianity, Antichrist
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Humanity, Burning
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.50, e-artnow

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful, War, Humanity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.205, Courier Corporation

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Soul, Humanity
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.93, Wordsworth Editions

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Humility, Humanity

It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Humanity, Doubt

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Brother, Goal, Humanity

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Humanity, Ticklish
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.28, e-artnow

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Work, Pride, Humanity

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Feelings, Humanity, Language

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