“To talk about oneself a great deal can also be a means of concealing oneself.”

- Beyond Good and Evil

“Most men are much too concerned with themselves to be malicious.”

- Human, All Too Human

Twilight of the Idols

“The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about a matter is usually not our own, but only the customary one, appropriate to our caste, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim near the surface.”

- Human, All Too Human

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Lofty spiritual independence, the will to stand alone, great intelligence even, are felt to be dangerous; everything that raises the individual above the herd and makes his neighbour quail is henceforth called evil."

- Beyond Good and Evil

“Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitheno always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!”

- Daybreak

“Morality is nothing other (therefore no more!) than obedience to customs, of whatever kind they may be; customs, however, are the traditional way of behaving and evaluating. In things in which no tradition commands there is no morality; and the less life is determined by tradition, the smaller the circle of morality. The free human being is immoral because in all things he is determined to depend upon himself and not upon a tradition”

- Daybreak

“No life without pleasure, the struggle for pleasure is the struggle for life.”

- Human, All Too Human

Following on from the previous quote, here is a very interesting article about Nietzsche’s documented drug use including opium, sedatives, and psychedelics, and how this experimentation with psychoactive substances may have potentially influenced his philosophy. He even went as far as to write false prescriptions signed with his own name “Dr Nietzsche” and expressed surprise that no pharmacist ever questioned his lack of medical qualifications.

https://highexistence.com/antichrist-psychonaut-nietzsche-psychoactive-drugs/

“The reproaches of conscience are weak even in the most conscientious people compared to the feeling: “This or that is against the morals of your society.” A cold look or a sneer on the face of those among whom and for whom one has been educated is feared even by the strongest. What is it that they are really afraid of? Growing solitude! This is the argument that rebuts even the best arguments for a person or cause. —Thus the herd instinct speaks up in us.”

- The Gay Science

“Either we have no dreams or our dreams are interesting. We should learn to arrange our waking life the same way: nothing or interesting.”

- The Gay Science

“One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary.”

- Human, All Too Human

“What is tradition? A higher authority which one obeys, not because it commands what is useful to us, but because it commands.”

- Daybreak

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings— always darker, emptier, and simpler.”

- The Gay Science

“Subjection to morality can be slavish or vain or self-interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or an act of despair, like subjection to a prince: in itself it is nothing moral.”

- Daybreak

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

- Twilight of the Idols

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“The “neighbour” praises selflessness because it brings him advantages.”

- The Gay Science

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”

- Beyond Good and Evil

“It is a serious mistake to study the penal code of a people as if it gave expression to the national character.”

- The Gay Science