“One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior”
More from Nietzsche on Philosophy
“And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.”
“Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.”
“Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.”
“Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life – and being successful.”
“Morality negates life.”
“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”
“I deny morality as I deny alchemy.”
“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”
“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
“You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
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Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Buddha
13 quotes“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
Joseph Conrad
13 quotes“The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.”