FastSaying

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty /he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world /alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

BeautyBeliefCreationHumanManPerfectionSelfWorshipping

Related Quotes

The perfect woman is a higher type of human than the perfect man, and also something much more rare.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
HumanManOpinion
🌟🌟💭💡📖
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Anti-christianBeliefChristianity
📖💭💫🌟📖
Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
ContemptManSelf
🌟🌟📖💡🎯
After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
AmplificationBeautyCharacters
💡💡💭✨💡
The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
AuthorityBeliefConscience
💡📖🌟💫💭