Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Talent

• The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Best Friend, Marriage

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

• 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

• Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fighting, Martial Arts, Talent

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.31, Penguin

• What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Talent, Hiding, Betray

• It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Genius, Talent, Periods

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.127, Courier Corporation

• There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Giving, Genius

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.374, Modern Library

• What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humility, New Beginnings, Character

• Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Talent, Enough, Permission

• With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Three, Legs, Four

• Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Tasks, Talent

• The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Goal, Culture

• I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  School, Doe, Blame

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