Friedrich Nietzsche Shame Quotations

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.