Honesty Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what truthfulness is.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeated,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Take good care there, you higher men! For nothing today is more precious to me and rarer than honesty. Is this today…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To…

— Friedrich Nietzsche