Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Opinions

• The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Change, Life Changing, Snakes

• It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sweet, Hard Times, Life Is Hard

• 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”

• We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Opinion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.212, Courier Corporation

• Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Public Opinion, Culture, Substance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.732, Modern Library

• From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Intellectual, Laziness

• One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Taken, Pride

• The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Sleep, Passion

• If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Men, Lazy

  "Untimely Meditations". "Schopenhauer as educator," § 3.1, p. 128. Book by Friedrich Nietzsche (1876), translated by R. J. Hollingdale, 1983.

• Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opinion, Individual, Conception

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.151, Courier Corporation

• Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Support, Lasts

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.229, Courier Corporation

• It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Opinion, Existence

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

• We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opinion, Enough, Not Sure

• One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tone, Opinion, Argument

• I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Heart, Character

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

• It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Belief, Opinion, Conflict

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

• You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, War, Enemy

• The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Opinion, Irony

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.160, Courier Corporation

• The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Swimming, Class, Firsts

• 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

• We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tone, Opinion, Reason

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

• For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Change, Vanity, Clothes

• Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Enemy, Culture

  "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, transl. by Helen Zimmern, Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself"/ aphorism 633, 1909-1913.

• Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Voice, Mislead Us, Sound

• Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Philosophy, Inspiration

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Part One: On the Prejudices of Philosophers, §5., 1886.

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