--- title: "5 Piety Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche" description: "5 Piety quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche. Plus more from Friedrich Nietzsche and more Piety sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/friedrich-nietzsche-15_admirable_there-is-perhaps-nothing-so-admirable-in_1102336.jpg" --- > [There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/there-is-perhaps-nothing-so-admirable-in-christianity-and-buddhism-as/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/friedrich-nietzsche-15_admirable_there-is-perhaps-nothing-so-admirable-in_1102336.jpg) > [It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-may-be-that-until-now-there-has-been-no-more-potent-means-for/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/509/friedrich-nietzsche-15_art_it-may-be-that-until-now-there-has-been_1588433.jpg) > [Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/where-the-past-is-venerated-the-clean-and-those-who-clean-things-up/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/762/friedrich-nietzsche-15_clean_where-the-past-is-venerated-the-clean-an_2735797.jpg) > [I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/i-do-not-know-what-the-spirit-of-a-philosopher-could-more-wish-to-be/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/046/friedrich-nietzsche-15_art_i-do-not-know-what-the-spirit-of-a-philo_2985263.jpg) > [What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-new-however-is-always-evil-being-that-which-wants-to-conquer/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8f/friedrich-nietzsche-15_again-and-again_what-is-new-however-is-always-evil-being_3222413.jpg) ## Other authors on Piety - [Shannon L. Alder 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/piety/shannon-l-alder/) - [Samuel Johnson 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/piety/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-washington-38054.jpg) George Washington 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/piety/george-washington/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/piety/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ## More by Friedrich Nietzsche > [Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/animals-know-nothing-of-themselves-and-they-also-know-nothing-of-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-select-man-strives-instinctively-for-a-citadel-and-a-privacy/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-breaks-my-heart-better-than-your-words-your-eye-tells-me-all-your/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/79-a-soul-which-knows-that-it-is-loved-but-does-not-itself-love/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-deceive-ourselves-when-giving-respect-to-the-person-for-whom-we/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-great-periods-of-our-life-occur-when-we-gain-the-courage-to/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-life-life-that-is-continually-shedding-something-that-wants/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-thus-only-this-personal-feeling-of-misery-that-we-get-rid-of-by/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/writers-whose-thoughts-are-expressed-with-clarity-and-precision-are/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-does-not-wear-a-twitching-mobile-human-face-but-rather-a-mask-as/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/chastity-is-a-virtue-with-some-but-with-many-it-is-almost-a-vice/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-earth-is-like-the-breasts-of-a-woman-useful-as-well-as-pleasing/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/of-all-that-is-written-i-love-only-what-a-man-has-written-in-his-own/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/no-shepherd-and-one-herd-everybody-wants-the-same-everybody-is-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [Pain makes hens and poets cackle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/pain-makes-hens-and-poets-cackle/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/piety/friedrich-nietzsche/#itemlist", "name": "5 Piety Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/there-is-perhaps-nothing-so-admirable-in-christianity-and-buddhism-as/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/friedrich-nietzsche-15_admirable_there-is-perhaps-nothing-so-admirable-in_1102336.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/friedrich-nietzsche-15_admirable_there-is-perhaps-nothing-so-admirable-in_1102336.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/friedrich-nietzsche-15_admirable_there-is-perhaps-nothing-so-admirable-in_1102336.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest…” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-may-be-that-until-now-there-has-been-no-more-potent-means-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/509/friedrich-nietzsche-15_art_it-may-be-that-until-now-there-has-been_1588433.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/509/friedrich-nietzsche-15_art_it-may-be-that-until-now-there-has-been_1588433.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/509/friedrich-nietzsche-15_art_it-may-be-that-until-now-there-has-been_1588433.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can…” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. 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