Beyond Good And Evil Quotes

In the end things must be as they are and have always been–the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Life’s neither a good nor an evil: it’s a field for good and evil.

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength–life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.