Beyond Good And Evil Quotes

One loves ultimately one’s desires, not the thing desired.

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.

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

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

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

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.)

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.