Nietzsche Masks Quotes & Sayings

It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful. — Friedrich Nietzsche

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Masks. - There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely masks. The man who associates with such almost spectral, necessarily unsatisfied beings is to be commiserated with, yet it is precisely they who are able to arouse the desire of the man most strongly: he seeks for her soul - and goes on seeking. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable. — Friedrich Nietzsche