Friedrich Nietzsche
Avoiding utilitarianism, Friedrich Nietzsche found other reasons to defend animals. He argued that "The sight of blind suffering is the spring of the deepest emotion." He once wrote: "For man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bull-fights, and crucifixions hath he hitherto been happiest on earth; and when he invented his hell, behold, that was his heaven on earth." Throughout his writings, he speaks of the human being as an animal.
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Famous quotes by friedrich nietzsche:
“Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, ‘know thyself,’ but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“One is twice as willing to jump in after a person who has fallen into the water when there are people present who do not dare to do so.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Life—that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life—that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak—and not only about us. Life—that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?—And yet old Moses said: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)