Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Genius

• Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Greatness, Men

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Men, Two

• It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Genius, Talent, Periods

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.127, Courier Corporation

• There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Giving, Genius

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.374, Modern Library

• Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tasks, Genius, Individual

• What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Vision, Genius

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Giving, Touching

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.95, Courier Corporation

• A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Men, Two

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

• My genius is in my nostrils.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Genius

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.326, Vintage

• Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Men, Rising Up

• There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Genius, He Man

• The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Genius, Deeds

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.76, Wordsworth Editions

• There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Clothes, Bags

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

• The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Work, Women, Mean

• Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Roles, Genius

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