![Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the..."](http://quotesbox.org/pic/328924/924x470/quotation-friedrich-nietzsche-visiting-the-sick-is-an-orgasm-of.jpg)
![](/media/106/125.jpg)
![](/media/106/126.jpg)
![](/media/106/127.jpg)
![](/media/106/128.jpg)
![](/media/106/129.jpg)
![](/media/106/124.jpg)
![](/media/106/125.jpg)
![](/media/106/126.jpg)
![](/media/106/127.jpg)
![](/media/106/128.jpg)
![](/media/106/129.jpg)
Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness
Friedrich NietzscheAbout author
- Author's profession: Philosopher, Writer
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: October 15, 1844
- Died: August 25, 1900
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.
A. Whitney Brown
![Harry Nilsson quote: "That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one..."](/pic/21667/600x316/quotation-harry-nilsson-that-incident-ruined-my-reputation-for-10-years.jpg)
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.
Ursula K. Le Guin
![Aiden Wilson Tozer quote: "Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized..."](/pic/235715/600x316/quotation-aiden-wilson-tozer-perhaps-it-takes-a-purer-faith-to-praise-god.jpg)
Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes.
J. K. Rowling