Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“To “give style” to one’s character—that is a grand and a rare art!”
- Source
- The Joyful Wisdom
- Date
- 1910
- English wording
- Thomas Common — Translator; Paul V. Cohn — Poetry renderer; Maude D. Petre — Poetry renderer · from German
Meaning of “To “give style” to one’s character—that is a…”
Nietzsche treats character not as a fixed inventory but as material that can be consciously shaped into a more coherent form through sustained work.
Where does it come from?
The Joyful Wisdom, aphorism 290, “One Thing is Needful”; Thomas Common translation in the 1910 Oscar Levy edition.
