Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Virtue

• 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”

• Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Men, Weather

• Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brother, Wall, Giving Love

• Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Father, Heritage

• Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Family, Mother, Children

• We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opponents, Virtue, Absence

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

• Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Recovery, Men, Giving Love

• All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nihilism, Sin, Virtue

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.549, Modern Library

• In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Compassion, Pity

• What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Men, Feelings

  "Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo".

• Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thrones, Littles, Moral

• Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Contentment, Renaissance

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

• Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Example, Add, Want

• The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friends, Honesty, Generosity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

• Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Teacher, Lying

• Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vices, Virtue, Sexuality

• 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

• You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heaven, Charity, Earth

• What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blame, Madness, Praise

• If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Doe, Virtue

  "Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist".

• We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Special, Virtue, Possession

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.156, Courier Corporation

• When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Virtue, Arise, Vigorous

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

• Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Quality, Vices, Virtue

• But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Money, Moon, Giving

• One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Flattery, Virtue, Flattering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.222, Friedrich Nietzsche

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