Friedrich Nietzsche
Saturday, 12 October 2024
Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, published in 1886. It expands upon ideas from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but more vehemently with its polemic and critique. Beyond Good and Evil consists of 296 numbered sections split into nine parts.
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
Beyond Good and Evil, "Our Virtues", 1886
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I do not like it' - Why? - 'I am not up to it'. -Has anyone ever answered like that?
Beyond Good and Evil, 185
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That which an age feels to be evil is usually an untimely after - echo of that which was formerly felt to be good - the atavism of an older ideal.
Beyond Good and Evil, 149
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In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.
Beyond Good and Evil
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Through music the passions enjoy themselves.
Beyond Good and Evil, "Fourth Part: Maxims and Interludes," section 106 (1886).
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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 to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.
Beyond Good and Evil
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There is an instinct for rank, which more than anything else is already the sign of a high rank; there is a delight in the nuances of reverence which leads one to infer noble origin and habits.
Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter IX, Paragraph 263
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Egoism belongs to the essence of a noble soul ... [meaning] "we" other beings must naturally be in subjection, and have to sacrifice themselves. The noble soul accepts the fact of his egoism without question, and also without consciousness of harshness, constraint, or arbitrariness therein, but rather as something that may have its basis in the primary law of things:--if he sought a designation for it he would say: 'It is justice itself.'
Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter IX, Paragraph 265
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Saturday, 12 October 2024If the Christian dogmas of a revengeful God, universal sinfulness, election by divine grace and the danger of eternal damnation were true, it would be a sign of weak-mindedness and lack of character not to become a priest, apostle or hermit and, in fear and trembling, to work solely on one's own salvation; it would be senseless to lose sight of one's eternal advantage for the sake of temporal comfort. If we may assume that these things are at any rate believed true, then the everyday Christian cuts a miserable figure; he is a man who really cannot count to three, and who precisely on account of his spiritual imbecility does not deserve to be punished so harshly as Christianity promises to punish him.Human, all too Human, p. 116, RJ Hollingdale transl.
