"Pity aims just as little at the..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”

“We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.”

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.”

“I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?”

“It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.”

“There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.”

“Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.”