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Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Done, Morality

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Redemption, Morality

...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

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Fashion, Revenge, Expectations

There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Compassion, Animal
'Umwerthung aller Werthe' (1888) bk. 1 'Der Antichrist' aphorism 48

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong, Sick, Criminals
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stronger, Makes You Stronger

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Faces, Prose, Written
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.145, Vintage

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christianity, Metaphysics, Hangman
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.309, Penguin

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Country, Drama, Europe

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Believe, Names

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Loyalty, Opponents, Causes

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Father, Maturity, Men

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Age, Looks, Too Much

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hate, People, Giving

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Blame, Madness, Praise

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Shame, Humane, Regard

I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Heart, Character
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Home, Mean
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.144, Vintage

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Law, Moral, Tradition
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.60, Courier Corporation

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hero, Greek, Morality

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Vanity, Light

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Law, Independence, Stronger
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.461, Vintage

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Soul, Atheism

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Overcoming, Would Be

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Greatness, Virtue, Consideration

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