Friedrich Nietzsche on Human Nature
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, entry #48650: "State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people'."
Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, entry #214518: "The Antichrist, at the Nietzsche Society"
5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche on Human Nature
"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people'."
"The Antichrist, at the Nietzsche Society"
"We are always in our own company."
"Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we lose institutions altogether because we are no longer good for them."
"All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner..."