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He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Tradition, Slave

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Men, Winning

. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Jesus, Son, Sacrifice

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Return, Wanted

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Taken, Sacrifice, Tyrants

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Greatness, Progress
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Genealogy of Morals”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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

There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religious, Sacrifice, Fate
"Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter III, Aphorism 55, 1886.

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Church, Doe
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.27, Courier Corporation

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Men, Seems
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.114, Penguin

Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Powerful, Heart, Sacrifice
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.45, Courier Corporation

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Animal, Thinking

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stars, Sacrifice, Earth
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.152, e-artnow

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fate, Sacrifice, Thinking

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Men, Self
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Paul Victor Cohn (1910). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”

But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Order, Return

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Self, Choices

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

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