Ethics and Morality

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

When thou goest to woman take thy whip.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

The lie is a condition of life.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

In order that there may be institutions, there must be a kind of will, instinct, or imperative, which is anti-liberal to the point of malice: the will to tradition, to authority, to responsibility for centuries to come, to the solidarity of chains of generations, forward and backward ad infinitum.

Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding 'rights', 'justice', 'equal rights', they are just acting under the pressure of their own lack of culture, which has no way of grasping why they really suffer, or what they lack in life.

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life--is the real sin against the holy spirit of life

Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness

Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?