Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian).… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image