"It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but wit...












There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
More Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
"What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
"When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!
"Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion.
"But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword...
"Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)
"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
"You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
"Man is the cruelest animal.
"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.