Quotes From "On The Genealogy Of Morals/Ecce Homo" By Friedrich Nietzsche

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies–but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness. Friedrich Nietzsche

The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them back with sacrifices and accomplishments; one thus recognizes a debt that constantly grows greater, since these forebears never cease, in their continued existence as powerful spirits, to accord the tribe new advantages and new strength. Friedrich Nietzsche

Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman Friedrich Nietzsche

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 [....] Without cruelty there is no festival. Friedrich Nietzsche

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering... Friedrich Nietzsche

Today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it isalmost an ordeal, which would make us seem very strange and incomprehensibleto the author and his contemporaries, — they read it with a clearconscience as the funniest of books, it made them nearly laugh themselvesto death). To see suffering does you good, to make suffer, better still — that On the Genealogy of Morality4248 See below, Supplementary material, pp. 153—4.49 See below, Supplementary material, pp. 137—9, pp. 140—1, pp. 143—4.50 Don Quixote, Book II, chs 31—7.is a hard proposition, but an ancient, powerful, human-all-too-humanproposition to which, by the way, even the apes might subscribe: as peoplesay, in thinking up bizarre cruelties they anticipate and, as it were, act outa ‘demonstration’ of what man will do. No cruelty, no feast: that is whatthe oldest and longest period in human history teaches us — and punishment, too, has such very strong festive aspects! —. Friedrich Nietzsche

At the centre of all these noble races we cannot fail to see the blond beast of prey, the magnificent blond beast avidly prowling round for spoil and victory; this hidden centre needs release from time to time, the beast must out again, must return to the wild: - Roman, Arabian, Germanic, Japanese nobility, Homeric heroes, Scandinavian Vikings - in this requirement they are all alike. It was the noble races which left the concept of 'barbarian' in their traces wherever they went; even their highest culture betrays the fact that they were conscious of this and indeed proud of it. Friedrich Nietzsche

This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies Friedrich Nietzsche

[The] self overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself--mercy... Friedrich Nietzsche

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity, " be. Friedrich Nietzsche

But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air. Friedrich Nietzsche

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce... Friedrich Nietzsche

Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription, 'I too was created by eternal love'--at any rate, there would be more justification for placing above the gateway to the Christian Paradise...the inscription 'I too was created by eternal hate'... Friedrich Nietzsche

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life--is the real sin against the holy spirit of life Friedrich Nietzsche

Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance Friedrich Nietzsche

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche