Greatness Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who does not find greatness in God finds it nowhere. He must either deny it or create it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The man who is to be great is the one who can be the most solitary, the most hidden, the most deviant,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche