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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Stupidity

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There's no defense against stupidity.

There's no defense against stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupidity, Defense

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupidity, Demon, Desire For Power
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Yield, Stupidity

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupidity, Trying, Fundamentals

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical, Stupidity, Purpose

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dog, Stupidity, Stones
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.49, Penguin

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupidity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.448, Courier Corporation

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Knowledge, Stupidity

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Childhood, Stupidity, Prejudice

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, Stupidity, Ends
Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.61, Oxford University Press

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Long, Stupidity

The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Character, Wind, Stupidity

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Stupidity, Lasts

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