"I looked for great men, but all..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.”
“The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.”
“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.”
More on Greatness
“Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.”
“The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.”
“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.”