Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Originality

• You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

• So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Men, Long

• Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Pride, Vanity

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

• What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Names, Way

  The Gay Science bk. 3, sec. 261 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann)

• Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Men, Originality

• What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Names, People, Way

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