"The most fundamental form of human stupidity..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.”
“The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.”
“In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.”
More on Stupidity
“Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.”
“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
“Irony is wasted on the stupid”
More on Human Nature
“We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.”
“Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.”
“Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.”