Beyond good and evil Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beyond good and evil Evil Fields Good and evil Life
Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Life in itself is neither good or evil. It is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.” — Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592 Copy Share Image
Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“4. The falseness of an opinion is not for us any objection to it: it is here, perhaps, that our new language sounds most strangely. The question is, how far an opinion is life-furthering, life- preserving, species-preserving, perhaps species-rearing, and we are fundamentally inclined to maintain that the falsest opinions (to which the synthetic judgments a priori belong), are the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory, but to go on living one had to select: some were kinder than others, some were simply more interested in you, and sometimes the outwardly beautiful and inwardly cold were necessary. The kinder ones fucked better,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
“The man who is to be great is the one who can be the most solitary, the most hidden, the most deviant, the man beyond good and evil, lord of his virtues, a man lavishly endowed with will - this is precisely what greatness is to be called: it is able to be as much a totality as something multi-faceted,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share
You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in all of us...I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so-called civilized society…You maggots make me sick! Hypocrites one and all...I don't need to hear all of… — Richard Ramirez Copy Share
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“But grant me from time to time—if there are divine goddesses in the realm beyond good and evil—grant me the sight, but one glance of something perfect, wholly achieved, happy, mighty, triumphant, something still capable of arousing fear! Of a man who justifies man , of a complementary and redeeming lucky hit on the part of man for the sake… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I… — Jason S. Hornsby Copy Share Image
“And do you know what “the world” is to me? Shall I show it to you in my mirror? This world: a monster of energy, without beginning, without end; a firm, iron magnitude of force that does not grow bigger or smaller, that does not expend itself but only transforms itself; as a whole, of unalterable size, a household without… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
