From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Compassion, Sea, Tears

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.190, Penguin

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mean, Compassion, Should Have

There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Compassion, Animal

'Umwerthung aller Werthe' (1888) bk. 1 'Der Antichrist' aphorism 48

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Compassion

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