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.
“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”
Generally attributed to Nietzsche, this is a quotation from Curtis Cate's Friedrich Nietzsche: A Biography (2003) and is the author's interpretation of Nietzsche's Aphorism 221 (Beyond Good and Evil)
Misattributed
“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
Variant: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.”
Variant: Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
