“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To what end the ‘world’ exists, to what end ‘mankind’ exists, ought not to concern us at all for the moment except… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The people told me, however, that the big ear was not only a man, but a great man, a genius. But I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
