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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Brother, War, Evil
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.40, e-artnow

Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fighting, Errors, Evil
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1995). “Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.229, A&C Black

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, People, Evil

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fate, Evil, Matter
"Fatum und Geschichte" by Friedrich Nietzsche, April 1862.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Power, Evil, Degrees
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Objectivity, Creating, Evil

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.)

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Done, Guts

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Trust, Opposites, Evil

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Soul
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.47, Vintage

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Hands, Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Evil, Soil
Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.31, Friedrich Nietzsche

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Song, Men, Evil
"Twilight of the Idols".

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Evil, Stills

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleep, Evil, Unity

Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

Friedrich Nietzsche
People, Evil, Judging
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Enemy, Shame
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.79, Penguin

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Groups, Madness

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Earth, Forests

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Clouds, Evil, Shadow

Man must become better and more evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Evil
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What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dream, Evil, Soul
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.296, Modern Library

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Individuality, Fundamentals

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Judging, Ideals

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Doe, Horror

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Two, Evil, Lust

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