Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
Variant: He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Quotes from book
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Original title
Jenseits von Gut und Böse
,
Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft
(German, 1886)
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that expands the ideas of his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra with a more critical and polemical approach. It was first published in 1886.
“Is not life a hundred times too short for us— to bore ourselves?”
Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm— zu langweilen?
Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter VII, 227
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
Variant: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil, translated by Marianne Cowan [Henry Regnery Company, 1955, p. 139]; Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Philipp Reclam, Stuttgart, 1988, p. 130]
Beyond Good and Evil, translated by Marianne Cowan [Henry Regnery Company, 1955, p. 50]; Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Philipp Reclam, Stuttgart, 1988, p. 130]
“Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young──now you are even younger.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.”
Variant: The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
