Friedrich Nietzsche Stupidity Quotations

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

There's no defense against stupidity.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.