"For as long as they praise you,..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.”
“Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.”
“But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.”
More on Authenticity
“Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.”
“I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.”
“For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.”
More on Individuality
“Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself.”
“The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.”
“I like to skate on the other side of the ice.”