Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Mask

• The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Solitude, Opinion

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Jason Kingston (2017). “Friedrich Nietzsche: 100 Quotes on Strength, Power, and Honor”

• 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

• All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Order, Humanity

• Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Majority, Mediocrity, Sake

• Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Men, Talking

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

• Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Needs, Growing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.241, Modern Library

• It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Fall, Eye

• whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Profound, Mask

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.240, Modern Library

• Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Hatred, Mask

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.565, Simon and Schuster

• Every profound spirit needs a mask.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Needs, Spirit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.241, Modern Library

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