Evil Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Man must become better and more evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking evil is making evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

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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.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting…

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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an…

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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how…

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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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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks…

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That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that…

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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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“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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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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When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that…

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Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while…

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Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world…

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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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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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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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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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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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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

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Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

— Friedrich Nietzsche