Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Individuality
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No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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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.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.
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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.
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The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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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.
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