Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Cleanliness

• A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Men, Two

• What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, People, Degrees

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.411, Modern Library

• Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Steps, Cleanliness, Relation

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.218, Vintage

• However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Voice, Judging

  "The Will to Power".

• We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dirty, Water, Needs

• For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Change, Vanity, Clothes

• One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rags, Dresses, Cleanliness

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