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Full Idea

Just as the popular mind separates the lightning from its flash and takes the latter for a 'action', so they separate strength from expressions of strength, but there is no such substratum; the deed is everything.

Gist of Idea

It is a delusion to separate the man from the deed, like the flash from the lightning

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morals [1887], I.§13)

Book Ref

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'On the Genealogy of Morals/ Ecce Homo', ed/tr. Kaufmann,Walter [Vintage 1969], p.45

A Reaction

Of course, there is no reason why an analysis should not separate the doer and the deed (to explain, for example, a well-meaning fool), but it is a blunder to think of a human action as a merely physical event.

The 614 ideas from Friedrich Nietzsche

20375 Virtues must be highly personal; if not, it is merely respect for a concept [Nietzsche]
20138 Christianity is at war with the higher type of man, and excommunicates his basic instincts [Nietzsche]
2915 Each person should devise his own virtues and categorical imperative [Nietzsche]
2917 Christianity is a revolt of things crawling on the ground against elevated things [Nietzsche]
2916 The great lie of immortality destroys rationality and natural instinct [Nietzsche]
2918 The story in Genesis is the story of God's fear of science [Nietzsche]
23520 Truth has had to be fought for, and normal life must be sacrificed to achieve it [Nietzsche]
2919 'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true [Nietzsche]
2920 A God who cures us of a head cold at the right moment is a total absurdity [Nietzsche]
2921 Philosophy grasps the limits of human reason, and values are beyond it [Nietzsche]
2922 All intelligent Romans were Epicureans [Nietzsche]
2914 One must never ask whether truth is useful [Nietzsche]
7078 The freedom of the subject means the collapse of moral certainty [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
6869 Nietzsche thinks the human condition is to overcome and remake itself [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
7079 Nietzsche resists nihilism through new values, for a world of becoming, without worship [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
7080 Metaphysics divided the old unified Greek world into two [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
23440 Nietzsche's judgement of actions by psychology instead of outcome was poisonous [Foot on Nietzsche]
2860 The most boring and dangerous of all errors is Plato's invention of pure spirit and goodness [Nietzsche]
1568 Nietzsche felt that Plato's views downgraded the human body and its brevity of life [Nietzsche, by Roochnik]
2867 Christianity is Platonism for the people [Nietzsche]
11090 Why do we want truth, rather than falsehood or ignorance? The value of truth is a problem [Nietzsche]
20140 We shouldn't object to a false judgement, if it enhances and preserves life [Nietzsche]
20355 The ranking of a person's innermost drives reveals their true nature [Nietzsche]
7834 Great philosophies are confessions by the author, growing out of moral intentions [Nietzsche]
2868 Nature is totally indifferent, so you should try to be different from it, not live by it [Nietzsche]
2291 A thought comes when 'it' wants, not when 'I' want [Nietzsche]
2871 Wanting 'freedom of will' is wanting to pull oneself into existence out of the swamp of nothingness by one's own hair [Nietzsche]
20381 It is psychology which reveals the basic problems [Nietzsche]
2872 In the earliest phase of human history only consequences mattered [Nietzsche]
20137 The great person engages wholly with life, and is happy to endlessly relive the life they created [Nietzsche]
2874 Man is the animal whose nature has not yet been fixed [Nietzsche]
2875 That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil [Nietzsche]
2876 The thought of suicide is a great reassurance on bad nights [Nietzsche]
2877 Morality becomes a problem when we compare many moralities [Nietzsche]
2859 The idea of the categorical imperative is just that we should all be very obedient [Nietzsche]
2878 We see an approximation of a tree, not the full detail [Nietzsche]
20134 Moralities extravagantly address themselves to 'all', by falsely generalising [Nietzsche]
2879 In ancient Rome pity was considered neither good nor bad [Nietzsche]
2880 The greatest possibilities in man are still unexhausted [Nietzsche]
22394 Democracy diminishes mankind, making them mediocre and lowering their value [Nietzsche]
2881 Virtue has been greatly harmed by the boringness of its advocates [Nietzsche]
20139 Only aristocratic societies can elevate the human species [Nietzsche]
20373 A healthy aristocracy has no qualms about using multitudes of men as instruments [Nietzsche]
2882 Morality originally judged people, and actions only later on [Nietzsche]
2883 Noble people see themselves as the determiners of values [Nietzsche]
2884 The morality of slaves is the morality of utility [Nietzsche]
20382 The four virtues are courage, insight, sympathy, solitude [Nietzsche]
2885 The noble soul has reverence for itself [Nietzsche]
20229 No authority ever willingly accepts criticism [Nietzsche]
20230 The very idea of a critique of morality is regarded as immoral! [Nietzsche]
20380 Why should truth be omnipotent? It is enough that it is very powerful [Nietzsche]
20231 People used to think that outcomes were from God, rather than consequences of acts [Nietzsche]
20232 Get rid of the idea of punishment! It is a noxious weed! [Nietzsche]
20233 Punishment has distorted the pure innocence of the contingency of outcomes [Nietzsche]
20234 Morality prevents us from developing better customs [Nietzsche]
20235 Like animals, we seek truth because we want safety [Nietzsche]
20236 Marriage upholds the idea that love, though a passion, can endure [Nietzsche]
20237 Moral feelings are entirely different from the moral concepts used to judge actions [Nietzsche]
20238 Treating morality as feelings is just obeying your ancestors [Nietzsche]
20240 The Jews treated great anger as holy, and were in awe of those who expressed it [Nietzsche]
20241 Enquirers think finding our origin is salvation, but it turns out to be dull [Nietzsche]
20242 Things are the boundaries of humanity, so all things must be known, for self-knowledge [Nietzsche]
20243 Human beings are not majestic, either through divine origins, or through grand aims [Nietzsche]
20244 Christianity replaces rational philosophical virtues with great passions focused on God [Nietzsche]
20245 Christianity hoped for a short cut to perfection, that skipped the hard labour of morality [Nietzsche]
20246 If you feel to others as they feel to themselves, you must hate a self-hater [Nietzsche]
20247 Christianity was successful because of its heathen rituals [Nietzsche]
20248 People do nothing for their real ego, but only for a phantom ego created by other people [Nietzsche]
20249 Our knowledge of the many drives that constitute us is hopelessly incomplete [Nietzsche]
20250 We may be unable to remember, but we may never actually forget [Nietzsche]
20251 Actions done for a purpose are least understood, because we complacently think it's obvious [Nietzsche]
20252 Marriage is too serious to be permitted for people in love! [Nietzsche]
20253 Modern wars arise from the study of history [Nietzsche]
20254 People govern for the pleasure of it, or just to avoid being governed [Nietzsche]
20255 Early 19th century German philosophers enjoyed concepts, rather than scientific explanations [Nietzsche]
20256 What we think is totally dictated by the language available to express it [Nietzsche]
20257 Cool courage and feverish bravery have one name, but are two very different virtues [Nietzsche]
20258 Most people treat knowledge as a private possession [Nietzsche]
20259 Teach youth to respect people who differ with them, not people who agree with them [Nietzsche]
20260 Carlyle spent his life vainly trying to make reason appear romantic [Nietzsche]
20261 History does not concern what really happened, but supposed events, which have all the influence [Nietzsche]
20262 Don't use wisdom in order to become clever! [Nietzsche]
20263 Fear reveals the natures of other people much more clearly than love does [Nietzsche]
20264 The easy and graceful aspects of a person are called 'soul', and inner awkwardness is called 'soulless' [Nietzsche]
20265 The desire for a complete system requires making the weak parts look equal to the rest [Nietzsche]
20266 It is essential that wise people learn to express their wisdom, possibly even as foolishness [Nietzsche]
20267 Seeing duty as a burden makes it a bit cruel, and it can thus never become a habit [Nietzsche]
20268 Most dying people have probably lost more important things than what they are about to lose [Nietzsche]
20269 'I believe because it is absurd' - but how about 'I believe because I am absurd' [Nietzsche]
20270 There is no one scientific method; we must try many approaches, and many emotions [Nietzsche]
20271 Beauty in art is the imitation of happiness [Nietzsche]
20272 Honesty is a new young virtue, and we can promote it, or not [Nietzsche]
20273 The French Revolution gave trusting Europe the false delusion of instant recovery [Nietzsche]
20274 The cardinal virtues want us to be honest, brave, magnanimous and polite [Nietzsche]
20275 Most people think they are already complete, but we can cultivate ourselves [Nietzsche]
20131 We can cultivate our drives, of anger, pity, curiosity, vanity, like a gardener, with good or bad taste [Nietzsche]
2887 I am not an atheist because of reasoning or evidence, but because of instinct [Nietzsche]
2886 The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd [Nietzsche]
4426 A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done [Nietzsche]
2889 One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil [Nietzsche]
20132 To become what you are you must have no self-awareness [Nietzsche]
20144 Eternal recurrence is the highest attainable affirmation [Nietzsche]
4425 The overcoming of pity I count among the noble virtues [Nietzsche]
4424 A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat [Nietzsche]
24096 Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist [Nietzsche]
24084 Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity [Nietzsche]
24085 For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed [Nietzsche]
24086 The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable [Nietzsche]
24087 People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty' [Nietzsche]
24088 See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life [Nietzsche]
24089 Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things [Nietzsche]
24115 There is no proof that we forget things - only that we can't recall [Nietzsche]
24090 Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity [Nietzsche]
24091 The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation [Nietzsche]
24116 Justice says people are not equal, and should become increasingly unequal [Nietzsche]
24092 I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive [Nietzsche]
24093 We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves [Nietzsche]
24117 We need lower and higher drives, but they must be under firm control [Nietzsche]
24094 Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones [Nietzsche]
24095 Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp [Nietzsche]
24118 Do away with punishment. Counter-retribution is as bad as the crime [Nietzsche]
24119 The eternal return of wastefulness is a terrible thought [Nietzsche]
24120 Great orators lead their arguments, rather than following them [Nietzsche]
24122 Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value [Nietzsche]
24123 My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect [Nietzsche]
24097 The pragmatics of language is more comprehensible than the meaning [Nietzsche]
24098 Reasons that justify punishment can also justify the crime [Nietzsche]
24121 Greeks might see modern analysis of what is human as impious [Nietzsche]
24099 We contain many minds, which fight for the 'I' of the mind [Nietzsche]
24100 If you don't want war, remove your borders; but you set up borders because you want war [Nietzsche]
24101 We always assign values, but we may not value those values [Nietzsche]
24102 Thoughts are signs (just as words are) [Nietzsche]
24103 You should not want too many virtues; one is enough [Nietzsche]
24104 We don't create logic, time and space! The mind obeys laws because they are true [Nietzsche]
24105 Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings [Nietzsche]
24106 Talk of 'utility' presupposes that what is useful to people has been defined [Nietzsche]
24107 Once a drive controls the intellect, it rules, and sets the goals [Nietzsche]
24108 Actions are just a release of force. They seize on something, which becomes the purpose [Nietzsche]
24109 Actual morality is more complicated and subtle than theory (which gets paralysed) [Nietzsche]
24110 Some things we would never do, even for the highest ideals [Nietzsche]
24111 Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives [Nietzsche]
24112 To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is [Nietzsche]
24113 Our motives don't explain our actions [Nietzsche]
24114 The pain in truth is when it destroys a belief [Nietzsche]
24124 We now have innumerable perspectives to draw on [Nietzsche]
24125 Aristotle enjoyed the sham generalities of a system, as the peak of happiness! [Nietzsche]
24126 We contain multitudes of characters, which can brought into the open [Nietzsche]
24127 Judging actions by intentions - like judging painters by their thoughts! [Nietzsche]
24128 After history following God, or a people, or an idea, we now see it in terms of animals [Nietzsche]
24129 We start with images, then words, and then concepts, to which emotions attach [Nietzsche]
24130 An affirmative belief is present in every basic sense impression [Nietzsche]
24131 There is no 'being'; it is just the opposition to nothingness [Nietzsche]
24132 After Socrates virtue is misunderstood, as good for all, not for individuals [Nietzsche]
24133 I have perfected fatalism, as recurrence and denial of the will [Nietzsche]
24134 There is always slavery, whether we like it or not [Nietzsche]
24135 Egoism should not assume that all egos are equal [Nietzsche]
24136 Who can endure the thought of eternal recurrence? [Nietzsche]
24138 Strongly believed a priori is not certain; it may just be a feature of our existence [Nietzsche]
24137 Mathematics is just accurate inferences from definitions, and doesn't involve objects [Nietzsche]
24139 A 'person' is just one possible abstraction from a bundle of qualities [Nietzsche]
24140 Cause and effect is a hypothesis, based on our supposed willing of actions [Nietzsche]
24141 Having a sense of time presupposes absolute time [Nietzsche]
24142 What matters is how humans can be developed [Nietzsche]
24143 Thinkers might agree some provisional truths, as methodological assumptions [Nietzsche]
24144 A cognitive mechanism wanting to know itself is absurd! [Nietzsche]
24145 Mind is a mechanism of abstraction and simplification, aimed at control [Nietzsche]
24146 All the major problems were formulated before Socrates [Nietzsche]
24147 Thoughts are uncertain, and are just occasions for interpretation [Nietzsche]
24148 If you love something, it is connected with everything, so all must be affirmed as good [Nietzsche]
24149 Values need a perspective, of preserving some aspect of life [Nietzsche]
24150 We can only understand through concepts, which subsume particulars in generalities [Nietzsche]
24151 I only want thinking that is anchored in body, senses and earth [Nietzsche]
24152 Fate is inspiring, if you understand you are part of it [Nietzsche]
24153 Humans are determined by community, so its preservation is their most valued drive [Nietzsche]
24154 If you want one experience repeated, you must want all of them [Nietzsche]
23208 Caesar and Napoleon point to the future, when they pursue their task regardless of human sacrifice [Nietzsche]
23209 Each of our personal drives has its own perspective [Nietzsche]
23210 That all events are necessary does not mean they are compelled [Nietzsche]
23211 Events are just interpretations of groups of appearances [Nietzsche]
23212 A text has many interpretations, but no 'correct' one [Nietzsche]
23213 The greatest drive of life is to discharge strength, rather than preservation [Nietzsche]
23214 For the strongest people, nihilism gives you wings! [Nietzsche]
23183 Different abilities are needed for living in an incomplete and undogmatic system [Nietzsche]
23184 The mind is a simplifying apparatus [Nietzsche]
23186 Numbers enable us to manage the world - to the limits of counting [Nietzsche]
23187 Whatever their origin, concepts survive by being useful [Nietzsche]
23188 Bad writers use shapeless floating splotches of concepts [Nietzsche]
23189 Concepts are rough groups of simultaneous sensations [Nietzsche]
23190 Consciousness is our awareness of our own mental life [Nietzsche]
23191 Minds have an excluding drive to scare things off, and a selecting one to filter facts [Nietzsche]
23192 Concepts don’t match one thing, but many things a little bit [Nietzsche]
23193 Napoleon was very focused, and rightly ignored compassion [Nietzsche]
23194 People feel united as a nation by one language, but then want a common ancestry and history [Nietzsche]
23195 Laws of nature are actually formulas of power relations [Nietzsche]
23197 Memory is essential, and is only possible by means of abbreviation signs [Nietzsche]
23196 Logic is a fiction, which invents the view that one thought causes another [Nietzsche]
23185 In chemistry every substance pushes, and thus creates new substances [Nietzsche]
23198 Aesthetics can be more basic than morality, in our pleasure in certain patterns of experience [Nietzsche]
23199 What is the search for truth if it isn't moral? [Nietzsche]
23200 The controlling morality of aristocracy is the desire to resemble their ancestors [Nietzsche]
23201 The 'I' does not think; it is a construction of thinking, like other useful abstractions [Nietzsche]
23202 Like all philosophers, I love truth [Nietzsche]
23203 The great question is approaching, of how to govern the earth as a whole [Nietzsche]
23204 To be someone you need property, and wanting more is healthy [Nietzsche]
23205 Thought starts as ambiguity, in need of interpretation and narrowing [Nietzsche]
23206 Schematic minds think thoughts are truer if they slot into a scheme [Nietzsche]
23207 Appearance is the sole reality of things, to which all predicates refer [Nietzsche]
4275 You cannot advocate joyful wisdom while rejecting pity, because the two are complementary [Scruton on Nietzsche]
6579 Nietzsche's perspectivism says our worldview depends on our personality [Nietzsche, by Fogelin]
20125 The ethical teacher exists to give purpose to what happens necessarily and without purpose [Nietzsche]
20198 Many virtues are harmful traps, but that is why other people praise them [Nietzsche]
9306 To ward off boredom at any cost is vulgar [Nietzsche]
20126 The strength of knowledge is not its truth, but its entrenchment in our culture [Nietzsche]
24076 A morality ranks human drives and actions, for the sake of the herd, and subordinating individuals [Nietzsche]
4423 We assume causes, geometry, motion, bodies etc to live, but they haven't been proved [Nietzsche]
2931 God is dead, and we have killed him [Nietzsche]
24077 Necessity is thought to require an event, but is only an after-effect of the event [Nietzsche]
24078 Thoughts cannot be fully reproduced in words [Nietzsche]
24079 The best life is the dangerous life [Nietzsche]
24080 We should give style to our character - by applying an artistic plan to its strengths and weaknesses [Nietzsche]
20141 Higher human beings see and hear far more than others, and do it more thoughtfully [Nietzsche]
24081 Most of our intellectual activity is unconscious [Nietzsche]
2934 To see one's own judgement as a universal law is selfish [Nietzsche]
2932 'Know thyself' is impossible and ridiculous [Nietzsche]
2935 No two actions are the same [Nietzsche]
2933 Why do you listen to the voice of your conscience? [Nietzsche]
2936 Imagine if before each of your actions you had to accept repeating the action over and over again [Nietzsche]
6842 Nietzsche says facing up to the eternal return of meaninglessness is the response to nihilism [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
24082 Is the will to truth the desire to avoid deception? [Nietzsche]
22471 Nietzsche thought it 'childish' to say morality isn't binding because it varies between cultures [Nietzsche, by Foot]
20121 Grammar only reveals popular metaphysics [Nietzsche]
20118 Only our conscious thought is verbal, and this shows the origin of consciousness [Nietzsche]
20116 Most of our lives, even the important parts, take place outside of consciousness [Nietzsche]
20120 Whatever moves into consciousness becomes thereby much more superficial [Nietzsche]
20115 All of our normal mental life could be conducted without consciousness [Nietzsche]
20117 Only the need for communication has led to consciousness developing [Nietzsche]
20122 We have no organ for knowledge or truth; we only 'know' what is useful to the human herd [Nietzsche]
20119 We became increasingly conscious of our sense impressions in order to communicate them [Nietzsche]
20360 We Germans value becoming and development more highly than mere being of what 'is' [Nietzsche]
24083 It would be absurd to say we are only permitted our own single perspective [Nietzsche]
3793 We must question the very value of moral values [Nietzsche]
4407 Plato, Spinoza and Kant are very different, but united in their low estimation of pity [Nietzsche]
3259 Nietzsche rejects impersonal morality, and asserts the idea of living well [Nietzsche, by Nagel]
23715 Psychologists should be brave and proud, and prefer truth to desires, even when it is ugly [Nietzsche]
4408 The concept of 'good' was created by aristocrats to describe their own actions [Nietzsche]
4409 Only the decline of aristocratic morality led to concerns about "egoism" [Nietzsche]
4410 The truly great haters in world history have always been priests [Nietzsche]
23716 A strong rounded person soon forgets enemies, misfortunes, and even misdeeds [Nietzsche]
23717 Modern nihilism is now feeling tired of mankind [Nietzsche]
23718 If we say birds of prey could become lambs, that makes them responsible for being birds of prey [Nietzsche]
4411 It is a delusion to separate the man from the deed, like the flash from the lightning [Nietzsche]
2930 The main aim of philosophy must be to determine the order of rank among values [Nietzsche]
23719 Forgetfulness is a strong positive ability, not mental laziness [Nietzsche]
4414 Philosophers invented "free will" so that our virtues would be permanently interesting to the gods [Nietzsche]
4415 Guilt and obligation originated in the relationship of buying and selling, credit and debt [Nietzsche]
4416 Basic justice is the negotiation of agreement among equals, and the imposition of agreement [Nietzsche]
4417 Only that which has no history is definable [Nietzsche]
23720 Punishment makes people harder, more alienated, and hostile [Nietzsche]
20142 The state begins with brutal conquest of a disorganised people, not with a 'contract' [Nietzsche]
4418 A masterful and violent person need have nothing to do with contracts [Nietzsche]
23721 Old tribes always felt an obligation to the earlier generations, and the founders [Nietzsche]
20129 All animals strive for the ideal conditions to express their power, and hate any hindrances [Nietzsche]
4419 People who think in words are orators rather than thinkers, and think about facts instead of thinking facts [Nietzsche]
4420 There is only 'perspective' seeing and knowing, and so the best objectivity is multiple points of view [Nietzsche]
23722 Objectivity is not disinterestedness (impossible), but the ability to switch perspectives [Nietzsche]
20143 Scientific knowledge is nothing without a prior philosophical 'faith' [Nietzsche]
4421 Philosophers have never asked why there is a will to truth in the first place [Nietzsche]
20103 You are mastered by your own virtues, but you must master them, and turn them into tools [Nietzsche]
20111 We could live more naturally, relishing the spectacle, and not thinking we are special [Nietzsche]
14807 The history of morality rests on an error called 'responsibility', which rests on an error called 'free will' [Nietzsche]
14808 Over huge periods of time human character would change endlessly [Nietzsche]
14809 All societies of good men give a priority to gratitude [Nietzsche]
14811 In Homer it is the contemptible person, not the harmful person, who is bad [Nietzsche]
14810 Originally it was the rulers who requited good for good and evil for evil who were called 'good' [Nietzsche]
20112 Pity consoles those who suffer, because they see that they still have the power to hurt [Nietzsche]
14812 Intellect is tied to morality, because it requires good memory and powerful imagination [Nietzsche]
14813 Science rejecting the teaching of Christianity in favour of Epicurus shows the superiority of the latter [Nietzsche]
14814 Execution is worse than murder, because we are using the victim, and really we are the guilty [Nietzsche]
20378 Just as skin hides the horrors of the body, vanity conceals the passions of the soul [Nietzsche]
14815 We get enormous pleasure from tales of noble actions [Nietzsche]
14816 Justice (fairness) originates among roughly equal powers (as the Melian dialogues show) [Nietzsche]
14817 The 'good' man does the moral thing as if by nature, easily and gladly, after a long inheritance [Nietzsche]
14818 First morality is force, then custom, then acceptance, then instinct, then a pleasure - and finally 'virtue' [Nietzsche]
14819 Slavery cannot be judged by our standards, because the sense of justice was then less developed [Nietzsche]
14820 People always do what they think is right, according to the degree of their intellect [Nietzsche]
14821 Apart from philosophers, most people rightly have a low estimate of pity [Nietzsche]
14822 If self-defence is moral, then so are most expressions of 'immoral' egoism [Nietzsche]
14824 It is absurd to blame nature and necessity; we should no more praise actions than we praise plants or artworks [Nietzsche]
14823 Ceasing to believe in human responsibility is bitter, if you had based the nobility of humanity on it [Nietzsche]
22473 Nietzsche said the will doesn't exist, so it can't ground moral responsibility [Nietzsche, by Foot]
14826 Modern man wants laws of nature in order to submit to them [Nietzsche]
14825 In religious thought nature is a complex of arbitrary acts by conscious beings [Nietzsche]
14827 The Greeks saw the gods not as their masters, but as idealised versions of themselves [Nietzsche]
14828 Religion is tempting if your life is boring, but you can't therefore impose it on the busy people [Nietzsche]
14830 Intuition only recognises what is possible, not what exists or is certain [Nietzsche]
14831 No one has ever done anything that was entirely for other people [Nietzsche]
14832 The Sermon on the Mount is vanity - praying to one part of oneself, and demonising the rest [Nietzsche]
14833 Comedy is a transition from fear to exuberance [Nietzsche]
14834 Teachers only gather knowledge for their pupils, and can't be serious about themselves [Nietzsche]
14835 Artists are not especially passionate, but they pretend to be [Nietzsche]
14836 People will enthusiastically pursue an unwanted war, once sacrifices have been made [Nietzsche]
14838 The state aims to protect individuals from one another [Nietzsche]
14837 Christ seems warm hearted, and suppressed intellect in favour of the intellectually weak [Nietzsche]
14839 Interest in education gains strength when we lose interest in God [Nietzsche]
14841 Many people are better at having good friends than being a good friend [Nietzsche]
14842 Why are the strong tastes of other people so contagious? [Nietzsche]
14843 Women can be friends with men, but only some physical antipathy will maintain it [Nietzsche]
14844 People do not experience boredom if they have never learned to work properly [Nietzsche]
14845 Don't crush girls with dull Gymnasium education, the way we have crushed boys! [Nietzsche]
14846 If we want the good life for the greatest number, we must let them decide on the good life [Nietzsche]
14847 Laws that are well thought out, or laws that are easy to understand? [Nietzsche]
14848 Education in large states is mediocre, like cooking in large kitchens [Nietzsche]
14849 We can only achieve happy moments, not happy eras [Nietzsche]
14850 Christ was the noblest human being [Nietzsche]
14852 Culture cannot do without passions and vices [Nietzsche]
24075 Convictions, more than lies, are the great enemy of truth [Nietzsche]
14853 Truth finds fewest champions not when it is dangerous, but when it is boring [Nietzsche]
14854 Deep thinkers know that they are always wrong [Nietzsche]
14855 Simultaneous love and respect are impossible; love has no separation or rank, but respect admits power [Nietzsche]
14856 Our judgment seems to cause our nature, but actually judgment arises from our nature [Nietzsche]
14857 The highest wisdom has the guise of simplicity [Nietzsche]
14858 Being certain presumes that there are absolute truths, and means of arriving at them [Nietzsche]
7149 Comprehending everything is impossible, because it abolishes perspectives [Nietzsche]
7147 Values are innate and inherited [Nietzsche]
7148 The 'I' is a conceptual synthesis, not the governor of our being [Nietzsche]
7157 We think each thought causes the next, unaware of the hidden struggle beneath [Nietzsche]
7158 Morality kills religion, because a Christian-moral God is unbelievable [Nietzsche]
7159 The only happiness is happiness with illusion [Nietzsche]
7150 By developing herd virtues man fixes what has up to now been the 'unfixed animal' [Nietzsche]
7151 Courage, compassion, insight, solitude are the virtues, with courtesy a necessary vice [Nietzsche]
7160 Christian belief is kept alive because it is soothing - the proof based on pleasure [Nietzsche]
7161 The essence of a thing is only an opinion about the 'thing' [Nietzsche]
7162 Morality can only be upheld by belief in God and a 'hereafter' [Nietzsche]
7163 Morality is merely interpretations, which are extra-moral in origin [Nietzsche]
7164 Not feeling harnessed to a system of 'ends' is a wonderful feeling of freedom [Nietzsche]
7152 With protoplasm ½+½=2, so the soul is not an indivisible monad [Nietzsche]
7154 We can't use our own self to criticise our own capacity for knowledge! [Nietzsche]
7153 We can't be realists, because we don't know what being is [Nietzsche]
7156 Sense perceptions contain values (useful, so pleasant) [Nietzsche]
7155 Consciousness exists to the extent that consciousness is useful [Nietzsche]
7165 Virtue is wasteful, as it reduces us all to being one another's nurse [Nietzsche]
7166 Man is above all a judging animal [Nietzsche]
7169 Is the perspectival part of the essence, or just a relation between beings? [Nietzsche]
7170 'Wisdom' attempts to get beyond perspectives, making it hostile to life [Nietzsche]
7171 Rationality is a scheme we cannot cast away [Nietzsche]
7167 Words such as 'I' and 'do' and 'done to' are placed at the point where our ignorance begins [Nietzsche]
7168 Modest people express happiness as 'Not bad' [Nietzsche]
7172 Existence without meaning or goal or end, eternally recurring, is a terrible thought [Nietzsche]
7173 Rights arise out of contracts, which need a balance of power [Nietzsche]
7174 Categories are not metaphysical truths, but inventions in the service of needs [Nietzsche]
7175 Philosophers find it particularly hard to shake off belief in necessary categories [Nietzsche]
7176 'Purpose' is like the sun, where most heat is wasted, and a tiny part has 'purpose' [Nietzsche]
7178 The utility of an organ does not explain its origin, on the contrary! [Nietzsche]
7179 Survival might undermine an individual's value, or prevent its evolution [Nietzsche]
7180 Darwin overestimates the influence of 'external circumstances' [Nietzsche]
7181 Pain shows the value of the damage, not what has been damaged [Nietzsche]
7177 Virtues from outside are dangerous, and they should come from within [Nietzsche]
7182 'Perspectivism': the world has no meaning, but various interpretations give it countless meanings [Nietzsche]
7183 'Subjectivity' is an interpretation, since subjects (and interpreters) are fictions [Nietzsche]
7189 Maybe there are only subjects, and 'objects' result from relations between subjects [Nietzsche]
7185 Replace the categorical imperative by the natural imperative [Nietzsche]
7186 There are no necessary truths, but something must be held to be true [Nietzsche]
7188 Logic tries to understand the world according to a man-made scheme [Nietzsche]
7193 Virtue for everyone removes its charm of being exceptional and aristocratic [Nietzsche]
7194 Experiencing a thing as beautiful is to experience it wrongly [Nietzsche]
7190 Our values express an earlier era's conditions for survival and growth [Nietzsche]
7191 What does not kill us makes us stronger [Nietzsche]
7192 Remove goodness and wisdom from our concept of God. Being the highest power is enough! [Nietzsche]
7199 It is dishonest to invent a being containing our greatest values, thus ignoring why they exist and are valuable [Nietzsche]
7200 A combination of great power and goodness would mean the disastrous abolition of evil [Nietzsche]
7201 Knowledge, wisdom and goodness only have value relative to a goal [Nietzsche]
7203 In heaven all the interesting men are missing [Nietzsche]
7204 The upholding of the military state is needed to maintain the strong human type [Nietzsche]
7195 If the world aimed at an end, it would have reached it by now [Nietzsche]
7196 Pessimism is laughable, because the world cannot be evaluated [Nietzsche]
7197 Pleasure needs dissatisfaction, boundaries and resistances [Nietzsche]
7198 Nihilism results from measuring the world by our categories which are purely invented [Nietzsche]
7209 There is no will; weakness of will is splitting of impulses, strong will is coordination under one impulse [Nietzsche]
7205 Altruism is praised by the egoism of the weak, who want everyone to be looked after [Nietzsche]
7206 Things are strong or weak, and do not behave regularly or according to rules or compulsions [Nietzsche]
7207 Counting needs unities, but that doesn't mean they exist; we borrowed it from the concept of 'I' [Nietzsche]
7208 Paganism is a form of thanking and affirming life? [Nietzsche]
7132 Philosophers should create and fight for their concepts, not just clean and clarify them [Nietzsche]
7133 There are different eyes, so different 'truths', so there is no truth [Nietzsche]
7134 Something can be irrefutable; that doesn't make it true [Nietzsche]
7135 'Freedom of will' is the feeling of having a dominating force [Nietzsche]
7129 Perception is unconscious, and we are only conscious of processed perceptions [Nietzsche]
7130 Unity is not in the conscious 'I', but in the organism, which uses the self as a tool [Nietzsche]
7131 The intellect and senses are a simplifying apparatus [Nietzsche]
7137 Is a 'philosopher' now impossible, because knowledge is too vast for an overview? [Nietzsche]
7138 The 'I' is a fiction used to make the world of becoming 'knowable' [Nietzsche]
7139 Explanation is just showing the succession of things ever more clearly [Nietzsche]
7140 Chemical 'laws' are merely the establishment of power relations between weaker and stronger [Nietzsche]
7141 A living being is totally 'egoistic' [Nietzsche]
7136 Morality is a system of values which accompanies a being's life [Nietzsche]
7142 All motions and 'laws' are symptoms of inner events, traceable to the will to power [Nietzsche]
7143 Consciousness is a 'tool' - just as the stomach is a tool [Nietzsche]
7145 Logic is not driven by truth, but desire for a simple single viewpoint [Nietzsche]
7144 Logic must falsely assume that identical cases exist [Nietzsche]
7146 Belief in the body is better established than belief in the mind [Nietzsche]
20363 Leaves are unequal, but we form the concept 'leaf' by discarding their individual differences [Nietzsche]
20130 It is absurd to think you can change your own essence, like a garment [Nietzsche]
7848 Philosophy begins in the horror and absurdity of existence [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
15606 Military idea: what does not kill me makes me stronger [Nietzsche]
2891 Only the English actually strive after happiness [Nietzsche]
2892 Wanting a system in philosophy is a lack of integrity [Nietzsche]
20101 Without music life would be a mistake [Nietzsche]
2893 In every age the wisest people have judged life to be worthless [Nietzsche]
2894 Value judgements about life can never be true [Nietzsche]
2895 The value of life cannot be estimated [Nietzsche]
18308 A philosopher fails in wisdom if he thinks the value of life is a problem [Nietzsche]
2896 I want to understand the Socratic idea that 'reason equals virtue equals happiness' [Nietzsche]
2898 Anything which must first be proved is of little value [Nietzsche]
2897 With dialectics the rabble gets on top [Nietzsche]
2899 The fanatical rationality of Greek philosophy shows that they were in a state of emergency [Nietzsche]
18309 The evidence of the senses is falsified by reason [Nietzsche]
2900 I revere Heraclitus [Nietzsche]
18312 The supreme general but empty concepts must be compatible, and hence we get 'God' [Nietzsche]
18310 The 'highest' concepts are the most general and empty concepts [Nietzsche]
18311 Philosophers hate values having an origin, and want values to be self-sufficient [Nietzsche]
18313 The big error is to think the will is a faculty producing effects; in fact, it is just a word [Nietzsche]
18314 In language we treat 'ego' as a substance, and it is thus that we create the concept 'thing' [Nietzsche]
18315 We get the concept of 'being' from the concept of the 'ego' [Nietzsche]
18318 People who disparage actual life avenge themselves by imagining a better one [Nietzsche]
18316 The grounds for an assertion that the world is only apparent actually establish its reality [Nietzsche]
18317 The 'real being' of things is a nothingness constructed from contradictions in the actual world [Nietzsche]
2901 How could the Church intelligently fight against passion if it preferred poorness of spirit to intelligence? [Nietzsche]
18320 To renounce war is to renounce the grand life [Nietzsche]
18319 Love is the spiritualisation of sensuality [Nietzsche]
2902 Healthy morality is dominated by an instinct for life [Nietzsche]
18322 When we establish values, that is life itself establishing them, through us [Nietzsche]
18321 To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it [Nietzsche]
2903 A good human will be virtuous because they are happy [Nietzsche]
18323 Any explanation will be accepted as true if it gives pleasure and a feeling of power [Nietzsche]
2904 The doctrine of free will has been invented essentially in order to blame and punish people [Nietzsche]
2905 'Purpose' is just a human fiction [Nietzsche]
2906 By denying God we deny human accountability, and thus we redeem the world [Nietzsche]
18324 There are no moral facts, and moralists believe in realities which do not exist [Nietzsche]
20133 The 'motive' is superficial, and may even hide the antecedents of a deed [Nietzsche]
2908 There is a need for educators who are themselves educated [Nietzsche]
2909 Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned [Nietzsche]
18325 Christians believe that only God can know what is good for man [Nietzsche]
18326 The beautiful never stands alone; it derives from man's pleasure in man [Nietzsche]
20368 There are no 'individual' persons; we are each the sum of humanity up to this moment [Nietzsche]
18327 A wholly altruistic morality, with no egoism, is a thoroughly bad thing [Nietzsche]
18328 Invalids are parasites [Nietzsche]
18329 Sometimes it is an error to have been born - but we can rectify it [Nietzsche]
18330 Judging by the positive forces, the Renaissance was the last great age [Nietzsche]
18331 Democracy is organisational power in decline [Nietzsche]
18332 The creation of institutions needs a determination which is necessarily anti-liberal [Nietzsche]
2911 True justice is equality for equals and inequality for unequals [Nietzsche]
2913 Thucydides was the perfect anti-platonist sophist [Nietzsche]
14859 If philosophy controls science, then it has to determine its scope, and its value [Nietzsche]
14860 Kant has undermined our belief in metaphysics [Nietzsche]
14861 Philosophy ennobles the world, by producing an artistic conception of our knowledge [Nietzsche]
14862 Philosophy is more valuable than much of science, because of its beauty [Nietzsche]
14863 Unlike science, true wisdom involves good taste [Nietzsche]
14864 The Greeks lack a normative theology: each person has their own poetic view of things [Nietzsche]
14865 We do not know the nature of one single causality [Nietzsche]
14866 It always remains possible that the world just is the way it appears [Nietzsche]
14867 It is just madness to think that the mind is supernatural (or even divine!) [Nietzsche]
14868 Our primary faculty is perception of structure, as when looking in a mirror [Nietzsche]
14869 If some sort of experience is at the root of matter, then human knowledge is close to its essence [Nietzsche]
14870 We experience causation between willing and acting, and thereby explain conjunctions of changes [Nietzsche]
14871 Laws of nature are merely complex networks of relations [Nietzsche]
14872 Our knowledge is illogical, because it rests on false identities between things [Nietzsche]
14873 If we find a hypothesis that explains many things, we conclude that it explains everything [Nietzsche]
14875 Belief matters more than knowledge, and only begins when knowledge ceases [Nietzsche]
14876 Philosophy is always secondary, because it cannot support a popular culture [Nietzsche]
14878 It would better if there was no thought [Nietzsche]
14880 Logic is just slavery to language [Nietzsche]
14879 The most extreme scepticism is when you even give up logic [Nietzsche]
14881 Why do people want philosophers? [Nietzsche]
14882 Protest against vivisection - living things should not become objects of scientific investigation [Nietzsche]
14883 We should evaluate the past morally [Nietzsche]
14884 The shortest path to happiness is forgetfulness, the path of animals (but of little value) [Nietzsche]
14885 The first aim of a philosopher is a life, not some works [Nietzsche]
14886 Education is contrary to human nature [Nietzsche]
14887 You should only develop a philosophy if you are willing to live by it [Nietzsche]
14888 Wisdom prevents us from being ruled by the moment [Nietzsche]
14889 Philosophy is pointless if it does not advocate, and live, a new way of life [Nietzsche]
14890 Suffering is the meaning of existence [Nietzsche]
4422 The end need not be the goal, as in the playing of a melody (and yet it must be completed) [Nietzsche]
5652 True beliefs are those which augment one's power [Nietzsche, by Scruton]
4486 The extreme view is there are only perspectives, no true beliefs, because there is no true world [Nietzsche]
4485 Every belief is a considering-something-true [Nietzsche]
4487 A note for asses: What convinces is not necessarily true - it is merely convincing [Nietzsche]
4488 Those who have abandoned God cling that much more firmly to the faith in morality [Nietzsche]
4489 If faith is lost, people seek other authorities, in order to avoid the risk of willing personal goals [Nietzsche]
4491 In modern society virtue is 'equal rights', but only because everyone is zero, so it is a sum of zeroes [Nietzsche]
4493 Be natural! But how, if one happens to be "unnatural"? [Nietzsche]
20357 Truth was given value by morality, but eventually turned against its own source [Nietzsche]
4494 Not "return to nature", for there has never yet been a natural humanity [Nietzsche]
4495 The high points of culture and civilization do not coincide [Nietzsche]
4484 Nihilism results from valuing the world by the 'categories of reason', because that is fiction [Nietzsche]
4497 The concept of 'God' represents a turning away from life, and a critique of life [Nietzsche]
4496 'Conscience' is invented to value actions by intention and conformity to 'law', rather than consequences [Nietzsche]
4498 'Love your enemy' is unnatural, for the natural law says 'love your neighbour and hate your enemy' [Nietzsche]
4499 Primitive Christianity is abolition of the state; it is opposed to defence, justice, patriotism and class [Nietzsche]
4500 It is a sign of degeneration when eudaimonistic values begin to prevail [Nietzsche]
20359 The nature of being, of things, is much easier to understand than is becoming [Nietzsche]
4502 Morality cannot survive when the God who sanctions it is missing [Nietzsche]
4501 Utilitarianism criticises the origins of morality, but still believes in it as much as Christians [Nietzsche]
20383 The wisest man is full of contradictions, and attuned to other people, with occasional harmony [Nietzsche]
20370 All evaluation is from some perspective, and aims at survival [Nietzsche]
4504 Morality used to be for preservation, but now we can only experiment, giving ourselves moral goals [Nietzsche]
4505 How can it be that I should prefer my neighbour to myself, but he should prefer me to himself? [Nietzsche]
4506 There is a conspiracy (a will to power) to make morality dominate other values, like knowledge and art [Nietzsche]
4507 The categorical imperative needs either God behind it, or a metaphysic of the unity of reason [Nietzsche]
4508 The truth is what gives us the minimum of spiritual effort, and avoids the exhaustion of lying [Nietzsche]
20372 The instinct of the herd, the majority, aims for the mean, in the middle [Nietzsche]
4509 Utilitarians prefer consequences because intentions are unknowable - but so are consequences! [Nietzsche]
4510 A path to power: to introduce a new virtue under the name of an old one [Nietzsche]
4511 We would avoid a person who always needed reasons for remaining decent [Nietzsche]
4512 Virtue is pursued from self-interest and prudence, and reduces people to non-entities [Nietzsche]
4513 Virtuous people are inferior because they are not 'persons', but conform to a fixed pattern [Nietzsche]
4514 The basic tendency of the weak has always been to pull down the strong, using morality [Nietzsche]
4515 Modesty, industriousness, benevolence and temperance are the virtues of a good slave [Nietzsche]
4516 Many virtues are merely restraints on the most creative qualities of a human being [Nietzsche]
4517 Egoism is inescapable, and when it grows weak, the power of love also grows weak [Nietzsche]
4518 The question about egoism is: what kind of ego? since not all egos are equal [Nietzsche]
4519 The ego is only a fiction, and doesn't exist at all [Nietzsche]
23938 Passions are ranked, as if they are non-rational and animal pleasure seeking [Nietzsche]
23939 We fail to see that reason is a network of passions, and every passion contains some reason [Nietzsche]
4520 I don't want to persuade anyone to be a philosopher; they should be rare plants [Nietzsche]
4521 None of the ancients had the courage to deny morality by denying free will [Nietzsche]
4523 What can be 'demonstrated' is of little worth [Nietzsche]
20374 Consciousness is a terminal phenomenon, and causes nothing [Nietzsche]
4525 There are no facts in themselves, only interpretations [Nietzsche]
4527 Perhaps we are not single subjects, but a multiplicity of 'cells', interacting to create thought [Nietzsche]
4528 For me, a priori 'truths' are just provisional assumptions [Nietzsche]
4529 All sense perceptions are permeated with value judgements (useful or harmful) [Nietzsche]
4530 Reason is a mere idiosyncrasy of a certain species of animal [Nietzsche]
4531 Our inability to both affirm and deny a single thing is merely an inability, not a 'necessity' [Nietzsche]
4533 Logic and maths refer to fictitious entities which we have created [Nietzsche]
4532 We can have two opposite sensations, like hard and soft, at the same time [Nietzsche]
4534 'Truth' is the will to be master over the multiplicity of sensations [Nietzsche]
4535 A 'species' is a stable phase of evolution, implying the false notion that evolution has a goal [Nietzsche]
4536 It is a major blunder to think of consciousness as a unity, and hence as an entity, a thing [Nietzsche]
4537 We can't know whether there is knowledge if we don't know what it is [Nietzsche]
4539 The forms of 'knowledge' about logic which precede experience are actually regulations of belief [Nietzsche]
4538 Judgements can't be true and known in isolation; the only surety is in connections and relations [Nietzsche]
4541 Everything simple is merely imaginary [Nietzsche]
4542 Science has taken the meaning out of causation; cause and effect are two equal sides of an equation [Nietzsche]
4543 There are no 'facts-in-themselves', since a sense must be projected into them to make them 'facts' [Nietzsche]
4544 A thing has no properties if it has no effect on other 'things' [Nietzsche]
4545 Could not the objective character of things be merely a difference of degree within the subjective? [Nietzsche]
4546 We realise that properties are sensations of the feeling subject, not part of the thing [Nietzsche]
4548 Only because there is thought is there untruth [Nietzsche]
4551 Great self-examination is to become conscious of oneself not as an individual, but as mankind [Nietzsche]
4550 Pleasure and pain are mere epiphenomena, and achievement requires that one desire both [Nietzsche]
20361 We need 'unities' for reckoning, but that does not mean they exist [Nietzsche]
20362 We saw unity in things because our ego seemed unified (but now we doubt the ego!) [Nietzsche]
4553 We derive the popular belief in cause and effect from our belief that our free will causes things [Nietzsche]
4552 There is no such things a pure 'willing' on its own; the aim must always be part of it [Nietzsche]
4554 The concept of the 'will' is just a false simplification by our understanding [Nietzsche]
20354 The ruling drives of our culture all want to be the highest court of our values [Nietzsche]
4555 The great error is to think that happiness derives from virtue, which in turn derives from free will [Nietzsche]
4557 The supposed great lovers of honour (Alexander etc) were actually great despisers of honour [Nietzsche]
4558 We have no more right to 'happiness' than worms [Nietzsche]
4559 When powerless one desires freedom; if power is too weak, one desires equal power ('justice') [Nietzsche]
4560 The Golden Rule prohibits harmful actions, with the premise that actions will be requited [Nietzsche]
20136 There is an extended logic to a great man's life, achieved by a sustained will [Nietzsche]
20358 The highest man can endure and control the greatest combination of powerful drives [Nietzsche]
20369 The highest man directs the values of the highest natures over millenia [Nietzsche]
7847 Initially nihilism was cosmic, but later Nietzsche saw it as a cultural matter [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
9782 Nietzsche urges that nihilism be active, and will nothing itself [Nietzsche, by Zizek]
20106 Nietzsche was fascinated by a will that can turn against itself [Nietzsche, by Safranski]
20371 Nietzsche thinks we should join a society, in order to criticise, heal and renew it [Nietzsche, by Richardson]
8041 The superman is a monstrous oddity, not a serious idea [MacIntyre on Nietzsche]
20135 Nietzsche's higher type of man is much more important than the idealised 'superman' [Nietzsche, by Leiter]
20128 Each person has a fixed constitution, which makes them a particular type of person [Nietzsche, by Leiter]
22503 Nietzsche could only revalue human values for a different species [Nietzsche, by Foot]
22475 Moral generalisation is wrong, because we should evaluate individual acts [Nietzsche, by Foot]
22476 Nietzsche thought our psychology means there can't be universal human virtues [Nietzsche, by Foot]
20352 Nietzsche has a metaphysics, as well as perspectives - the ontology is the perspectives [Nietzsche, by Richardson]
7846 Nietzsche thinks philosophy makes us more profound, but not better [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
20107 How many mediocre thinkers are occupied with influential problems! [Nietzsche]
20104 Nietzsche tried to lead a thought-provoking life [Safranski on Nietzsche]
20353 The 'will to power' is basically applied to drives and forces, not to people [Nietzsche, by Richardson]
20108 Every culture loses its identity and power if it lacks a major myth [Nietzsche]
20367 Individual development is more important than the state, but a community is necessary [Nietzsche]
20105 Storms are wonderful expressions of free powers! [Nietzsche]
20113 Friendly chats undermine my philosophy; wanting to be right at the expense of love is folly [Nietzsche]
22500 Nietzsche failed to see that moral actions can be voluntary without free will [Foot on Nietzsche]
22501 Nietzsche classified actions by the nature of the agent, not the nature of the act [Nietzsche, by Foot]
20102 Flight from boredom leads to art [Nietzsche]
20124 Reliving life countless times - this gives the value back to life which religion took away [Nietzsche]
20123 First see nature as non-human, then fit ourselves into this view of nature [Nietzsche]
20379 Reason is just another organic drive, developing late, and fighting for equality [Nietzsche]
20376 We begin with concepts of kinds, from individuals; but that is not the essence of individuals [Nietzsche]
18286 The greatest experience possible is contempt for your own happiness, reason and virtue [Nietzsche]
18287 People now find both wealth and poverty too much of a burden [Nietzsche]
18288 Heaven was invented by the sick and the dying [Nietzsche]
18290 But what is the reasoning of the body, that it requires the wisdom you seek? [Nietzsche]
18289 Forget the word 'I'; 'I' is performed by the intelligence of your body [Nietzsche]
18291 Virtues can destroy one another, through jealousy [Nietzsche]
18292 I can only believe in a God who can dance [Nietzsche]
18293 The noble man wants new virtues; the good man preserves what is old [Nietzsche]
18294 The state coldly claims that it is the people, but that is a lie [Nietzsche]
18295 If you want friends, you must be a fighter [Nietzsche]
18296 An enduring people needs its own individual values [Nietzsche]
18297 We created meanings, to maintain ourselves [Nietzsche]
18298 Not being a god is insupportable, so there are no gods! [Nietzsche]
18300 Whenever we have seen suffering, we have wanted the revenge of punishment [Nietzsche]
18299 The will is constantly frustrated by the past [Nietzsche]
18301 We only really love children and work [Nietzsche]
18302 Man and woman are deeply strange to one another! [Nietzsche]
18303 Reject wisdom that lacks laughter [Nietzsche]
18304 Saints want to live as they desire, or not to live at all [Nietzsche]
18305 To love truth, you must know how to lie [Nietzsche]
18306 We don't want heaven; now that we are men, we want the kingdom of earth [Nietzsche]
18307 I want my work, not happiness! [Nietzsche]
20757 The powerful self behind your thoughts and feelings is your body [Nietzsche]