Friedrich Nietzsche Opinion Quotations

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

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.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.