Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Enemies

• But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Lying

• The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Hate, Lost Love

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.101, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Warrior, Enemy

• The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Enemy, Weapons

• Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love You, Enemy, Love Your Enemies

• If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Enemy, Shame

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.79, Penguin

• Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Be Careful, Careful

• The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Law, Enemy, Criminals

• You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Enemy, May

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.337, Penguin UK

• Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Enemy, Politics

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

• Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Nihilism, Want

• How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Noble Man, Bridges

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.475, Modern Library

• The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Alive, Sake

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Frank Cameron, Don Dombowsky (2008). “Political writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: an edited anthology”, Palgrave MacMillan

• 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

  Spiritual, Atheist, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.33, Vintage

• How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, War, Enemy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

• The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friends, Honesty, Generosity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

• Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Respect, Enemy, Should

• But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Enemy, Suffering

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.121, Booklassic

• To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thank You, Grateful, Enemy

• Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Envy, Enemy, Overcoming

• You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, War, Enemy

• To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Desire, Demand

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.45, Vintage

• Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Play, Secret

• Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Enemy, Culture

  "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, transl. by Helen Zimmern, Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself"/ aphorism 633, 1909-1913.

• Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Enemy, Contempt You

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