Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Praise
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The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
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A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
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What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
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For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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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.
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Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.
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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —
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There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.
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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
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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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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
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Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.
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When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
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