Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Talent
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
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The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
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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.
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
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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.
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
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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.
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Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.
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What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
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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.
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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.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
- Born: October 15, 1844
- Died: August 25, 1900
- Occupation: Philologist
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