Evil Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man must become better and more evil.

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Thinking evil is making evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

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Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man

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For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

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And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

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What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond…

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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light,…

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There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil…

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If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say:…

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Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who…

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We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the…

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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light,…

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I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This…

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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to…

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“And you who are wise and knowledgable, you would flee from the burning sun of that wisdom in which the overman joyously…

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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of…

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What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition…

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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old…

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Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive…

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Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and…

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Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition…

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There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds…

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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the…

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It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such…

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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it…

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When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality,…

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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of…

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How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for…

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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

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

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Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of…

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[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

— Friedrich Nietzsche