20 quotes
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, epochs it is the rule.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Independence is for the very few; it is a privilege of the strong.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Even cohabitation has been corrupted – by marriage.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become one himself. And when you stare for a long time into an abyss, the abyss stares back into you.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author – and not to learn it better.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
So long as thou feelest the stars as an ‘above thee’, thou lackest the eye of the discerning one.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Christianity is Platonism for the "people".
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Even that Dionysus is a philosopher, and that gods, too, thus philosophy, seems to me a novelty that is far from innocuous and might arouse suspicion precisely among philosophers.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Every enhancement of the type "man" has so far been the work of an aristocratic society—and it will be so again and again—a society that believes in the long ladder of an order of rank and differences in value between man and man, and that needs slavery in some sense or other.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
The democratic idea proceeds toward the fabrication of a human type fit for slavery in the most delicate sense of the word. Every democracy is simultaneously an involuntary institution for the breeding of tyrants in every sense of the word, even in the spiritual sense.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
As far as materialistic atomism goes: this is one of the most well-refuted things in existence. In Europe these days, nobody in the scholarly community is likely to be so unscholarly as to attach any real significance to it, except as a handy household tool (that is, as an abbreviated figure of speech).
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)