"Those who are failures from the start,..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!”
“How much beer is in German intelligence?”
“For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.”
More on Weakness
“Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength.”
“Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.”
“Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.”
More on Human Nature
“Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.”
“I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.”
“We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.”