All FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Quotes about “Genius”

“It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.”
“Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.”
“What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.”
“A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.”
“My genius is in my nostrils.”
“Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.”
“There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.”
“The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.”
“There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.”
“The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.”

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