Respect Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“In disrespecting, we show that we still mantain a sense of respect.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The dignity of folly And just as tyranny of truth and science could increase esteem for the lie, a tyranny of prudence…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How little the world would look moral without forgetfulness! A poet might say that God made forgetfulness the guard he placed at…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Apart from all theology and its contentions, it is quite clear that the world is not good and not bad (to say…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“They want more, they learn to make claims, the tribute of respect is at last felt to be well-nigh galling; rivalry for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Error regarding life necessary to life. - Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on false thinking; it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche