Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Evil

• Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Reality, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.53, Courier Corporation

• Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Monsters

• 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

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Evil, Done

  "The Portable Nietzsche".

• Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Objectivity, Creating, Evil

• Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Essence, Evil, Dying

• There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Good And Evil, Illusion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.194, e-artnow

• But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Dark, Men

  "The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche".

• If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Law, Tyrants, Evil

• What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spring, Power, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

• Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Want, Claws

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

• Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Believe, Fate

• A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

• 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

• Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Father, Evil

• Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Shameless, Poet

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Judith Norman (2002). “Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

• What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Evil, Soul

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.296, Modern Library

• All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Speaks Out, Names, Evil

  Gary Shapiro, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “Nietzschean narratives”, Indiana Univ Pr

• “Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Song, Men, Evil

  "Twilight of the Idols".

• 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

• There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Opposites, Evil

• The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Evil, Unity

• The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Sleep, Passion

• Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Evil, Matter

  "Fatum und Geschichte" by Friedrich Nietzsche, April 1862.

• In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Evil, Lasts

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