

“نفاق وطني: لكلّ شعب رياؤه الخاص وهو يسميه فضائله. أما أفضل ما لديه فيجهله، بل يمتنع أنْ يعرفه.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil

“Everything in proximity to the hero becomes tragedy; everything in proximity to the demigod becomes satyr-play; and everything in proximity to God becomes...what? "world" perhaps?”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil

“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil

“Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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