Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Fame

• I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Simple, People, Soul

  Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”

• What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humility, New Beginnings, Character

• When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Grateful, Shame

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.201, Vintage

• When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Modesty, Fame

• He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Vanity, Self

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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