The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life – and being successful.
In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.
That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.
Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153.
The Antichrist, Section 7.
For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
The Gay Science, section 108.
One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.
Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.
Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will’s delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.
One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one’s own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?