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Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo QUOTES

Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo QUOTES

1 " Dostoevsky, by the way, the only psychologist who had anything to teach me: "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

2 " The fact that education, that development–and not ‘the Reich’–is itself a goal, the fact that you need educators–and not schoolteachers or university scholars–to reach this goal, people have forgotten this "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

3 " I distrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

4 " The most spiritual people (assuming they are the bravest) experience by far the most painful tragedies: but this is precisely why they honour life, because it provides them with their greatest adversities. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

5 " Judgments, value judgments on life, for or against, can ultimately never be true: they have value only as symptoms, they can be taken seriously only as symptoms, "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

6 " To live alone, you need to be either an animal or a god–says Aristotle. But he left out the third case: you can be both–a philosopher . . . "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

7 " Plenty of zeal and self-respect, plenty of competence in communication and transaction, in reciprocity of duties, plenty of diligence, plenty of stamina – and a hereditary sense of moderation that needs to be goaded on rather than curbed. I should add that obedience still exists here without it being humiliating . . . And people do not look down on their opponents "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

8 " Dialectics is a type of self-defence used only by people who do not have any other weapons. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

9 " If I am just canaille then you should be too’: out of this logic come revolutions. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

10 " When the physiognomist revealed "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

11 " the human is an endpoint "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

12 " When you look for beginnings, you become a crab. Historians look backwards; and they end up believing backwards too. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

13 " People rarely rush into things only once. The first time you rush into things, you always do too much. That’s why you usually do the same thing again – and then you do too little . . . "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

14 " hatred of lying and disguise that comes from a delicate sense of honour; there is also a hatred that comes from cowardice, since lying is forbidden by divine commandment. Too cowardly to lie . . . "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

15 " increscunt animi, virescit volnere virtus. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

16 " Where there is a struggle, it is a struggle for power . . . You should not confuse Malthus with nature. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

17 " (Precisely because of this capacity to string unhappy people along, the Greeks considered hope to be the evil of evils, the truly insidious evil: it was left behind in the box of evils.) "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

18 " On ne peut penser et écrire qu’assis6 (G. Flaubert). – I’ve caught you, nihilist! Sitting still is the very sin against the Holy Spirit. Only peripatetic thoughts have any value. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

19 " Princes sit securely on their thrones only after they’ve been shot at. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

20 " I lifted the curtain to reveal the corruption of humanity. This word, coming from my mouth, is absolved of one suspicion at least: the suspicion that it implies some moral indictment of human beings. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo