Friedrich Nietzsche Individual Quotations

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.