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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Enemy, Weapons

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Stupid, May
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.190, Courier Corporation

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Skills, Overcoming

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Men, Feelings
"Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo".

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Contentment, Renaissance
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Causes, Good War
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.103, Penguin

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful, War, Wish
1882 Die fro« hliche Wissenschaft ( The Gay Science), section 276 (translated by WKaufmann).

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, War, Health
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.57, Friedrich Nietzsche

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, History, Age
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Peace, War, Men
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

At heart I am a warrior.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Heart, Warrior
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.23, Courier Corporation

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Opponents, Firsts

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Holiness, Holy

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Father, War, Good Things
Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.91, Friedrich Nietzsche

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Renounce
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.36, Friedrich Nietzsche

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Age, Heroism

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

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Blow, Wind

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Mean, Europe

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Ideas, Age

The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Sleep, Passion

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Causes, Justify

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Mean, Long
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.42, Friedrich Nietzsche

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong, War, Drug

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Joy, Doubt
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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