“Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is of the essence of knowledge.”

- The Gay Science

"There is an old illusion - it is called good and evil."

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“In truth, hope is the most evil of evils because it prolongs man's torment.”

- Human, All Too Human

“In every prevalent morality and religion: the reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.”

- The Gay Science

“Without blind disciples, no man or his work has ever gained great influence.”

- Human, All Too Human

“He has conceived of the ‘evil enemy’, ‘the evil one’ as a basic idea to which he now thinks up a copy and counterpart, the ‘good one’ – himself!”

- On the Genealogy of Morality

On The Genealogy of Morality
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"He who wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue; then others can imitate and, at the same time, rise above the one being imitated - something which people love."

- Human, All Too Human

“In each ascetic morality, man prays to one part of himself as a god and also finds it necessary to diabolify the rest.”

- Human, All Too Human

“To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle.”

- On the Genealogy of Morality

“The morality which is antagonistic to nature, that is to say, almost every morality that has been taught, honoured and preached hitherto, is directed precisely against the life instincts. It is a condemnation, now secret, now blatant and impudent, of these very instincts.”

- Twilight of the Idols

“The spiritualisation of sensuality is called love.”

- Twilight of the Idols

“Whereas all noble morality grows out of a triumphant saying ‘yes’ to itself, slave morality says ‘no’ on principle to everything that is ‘outside’, ‘other’, ‘non-self’: and this ‘no’ is its creative deed ... in order to come about, slave morality first has to have an opposing, external world, it needs, physiologically speaking, external stimuli in order to act at all, – its action is basically a reaction.”

- On the Genealogy of Morality

“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people’.”

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit—the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is exploited, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.”

- The Gay Science

"Fear is the mother of morality."

- Beyond Good and Evil

“What is the seal of liberation?— No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.”

- The Gay Science

“When we see somebody suffer, we like to exploit this opportunity to take possession of him”

- The Gay Science

“Perhaps Asians are distinguished above Europeans by a capacity for longer, deeper calm; even their opiates have a slow effect and require patience, as opposed to the disgusting suddenness of the European poison, alcohol.”

- The Gay Science

“One lied, mendaciously inventing reasons for these laws, simply to avoid admitting that one had become used to these laws and no longer wanted things to be different.”

- The Gay Science