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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future quotes
12 quotes from Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #4363 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
The falseness of an opinion is not for us any objection to it: it is here, perhaps, that our new language sounds most strangely.
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
The sense of the tragic increases and declines with sensuousness.
Insanity in individuals is something rare--but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.
In short, systems of morals are only a SIGN-LANGUAGE OF THE EMOTIONS.
vanity is an atavism.
It is not the works, but the BELIEF which is here decisive and determines the order of rank--to employ once more an old religious formula with a new and deeper meaning--it is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost.--THE NOBLE SOUL HAS REVERENCE FOR ITSELF.--
The maturity of man--that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.