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Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits is a book by 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878. A second part, Assorted Opinions and Maxims , was published in 1879, and a third part, The Wanderer and his Shadow , followed in 1880.
Es ist nicht der Kampf der Meinungen, welcher die Geschichte so gewaltthätig gemacht hat, sondern der Kampf des Glaubens an die Meinungen, das heisst der Ueberzeugungen.
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / excerpt from aphorism 630
Source: Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
I.597
Human, All Too Human (1878)
Context: No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.
“Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.”
Mancher wird nur deshalb kein Denker, weil sein Gedächtnis zu gut ist.
II.122
Human, All Too Human (1878)
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Human, All Too Human (1878)
“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”
I.85
Source: Human, All Too Human (1878)
“He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.”
Source: Human, All Too Human
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 515
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 483
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
Context: Enemies of truth. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
“Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual”
I.475
Human, All Too Human (1878)
Context: Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 494
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
“There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world’s religions.”
Variant: There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Source: Human, All Too Human
