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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Monsters

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Revenge, Self, Evil

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spring, Power, Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

Friedrich Nietzsche
God, Father, Evil

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Want, Claws
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Unjust
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.71, Regnery Publishing

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Evil, Body

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Law, Tyrants, Evil

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Evil, Lasts

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Good And Evil, Illusion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.194, e-artnow

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spiritual, Atheist, Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.33, Vintage

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Done, May
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.199, Penguin

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Want, Goodness
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Shameless, Poet
Friedrich Nietzsche, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Judith Norman (2002). “Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Essence, Evil, Dying

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Age, Golden

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Tyrants, Evil

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Mean, Evil

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Evil, Done
"The Portable Nietzsche".

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Evil, Gains
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter, Evil, Together
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.210, Penguin

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Mean, Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.202, Modern Library

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Enemy, Add

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Creativity, Evil, Firsts

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Rights, People, Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.104, Penguin

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