Human, All Too Human/Beyond Good and Evil Quotes

“To say it for those who know how to explain a thing: women have the intelligence, men the heart and passion. This is not contradicted by the fact that men actually get so much farther with their intelligence: they have the deeper, more powerful drives; these take their intelligence, which is in itself something passive, forward. Women are often privately amazed at the great honor men pay to their hearts. When men look especially for a profound, warm-hearted being, in choosing their spouse, and women for a clever, alert, and brilliant being, one sees very clearly how a man is looking for an idealized man, and a woman for an idealized woman--that is, not for a complement, but for the perfection of their own merits.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human/Beyond Good and Evil

“Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea – all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human/Beyond Good and Evil

“Insects sting, not for malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood, not our pain”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human/Beyond Good and Evil

“The strongest knowledge—that of the total unfreedom of the human will—is nonetheless the poorest in successes, for it always has the strongest opponent: human vanity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human/Beyond Good and Evil

“In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human/Beyond Good and Evil