Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Modesty

• Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beauty, Modesty, Increase

  "Human, All Too Human". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorism 398, 1878.

• This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Hands, Modesty

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

• One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Cities, People

• Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Awkward, Modesty

• Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Eye, Men

• I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Believe, Heart

• Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Pride, Tails

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.270, Modern Library

• Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beauty, Women, Modesty

• The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Self, Modesty

• Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Women, Science

• It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Plato, Philosophical

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.294, Vintage

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Modesty, Fame

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