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Beyond Good and Evil QUOTES

Beyond Good and Evil QUOTES

1 " In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

2 " Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

3 " Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

4 " The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

5 " It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.--- "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

6 " When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

7 " Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful – but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

8 " Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

9 " In music the passions enjoy themselves. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

10 " To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

11 " For us, the falsity of a judgment is still no objection to that judgment — that’s where our new way of speaking sounds perhaps most strange. The question is the extent to which it makes demands on life, sustains life, maintains the species, perhaps even creates species. And as a matter of principle we are ready to assert that the falsest judgments (to which a priori synthetic judgments belong) are the most indispensable to us, that without our allowing logical fictions to count, without a way of measuring reality against the purely invented world of the unconditional and self-identical, without a constant falsification of the world through numbers, human beings could not live — that if we managed to give up false judgments, it would amount to a renunciation of life, a denial of life.

To concede the fictional nature of the conditions of life means, of course, taking a dangerous stand against the customary feelings about value. A philosophy which dares to do that is for this reason alone already standing beyond good and evil. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

12 " One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

13 " Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

14 " The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

15 " One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

16 " There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

17 " [Anything which] is a living thing and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will of life. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

18 " That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still the same old streets, and the wheels are likewise the same old wheels. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

19 " Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil

20 " Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy--ah, they know only too well that it will flee from them! "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil