Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Greatness

• My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Different, Amor

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.714, Modern Library

• The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Men, Discipline

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.344, Modern Library

• God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Greatness, Blood

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage

• Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Mind, Simple Life

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.21, Oxford University Press

• All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Firsts, Impossible

• 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

• My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Past, Greatness

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

• It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Privilege, Intense

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

• The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Fighting, Greatness

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

• At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Integrity, Heart, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.381, Penguin

• The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Greatness, Progress

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Genealogy of Morals”, p.51, Courier Corporation

• When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Greatness, Men

• Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Attitude, Greatness, Pathetic

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Essential Nietzsche”, p.166, Courier Corporation

• There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Age, Recognition

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.171, Courier Corporation

• Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Greatness, Intellectual

• You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Opportunity, Greatness

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.296, Cambridge University Press

• But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Greatness, Doubt

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

• You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Greatness, Suffering

• The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Culture, Proof

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.36, Penguin UK

• Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Greatness, Innocence

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.39, Vintage

• 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

• Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Deny

• He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Virtue, Consideration

• I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Play, Essentials

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “On the Genealogy of Morals”, Vintage

• Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Ideas, Diversity

  "Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, I. Johnston, trans., § 212, 1886.

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