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On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
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"My formula for greatness in a man being is amor fati: that i wants nothing to be different, not forrad, non backward, non in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, notwithstanding less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it"
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Man

"To see others suffer does 1 good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard proverb merely an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-man principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"Forgetfulness is non simply a vis inertiae, as superficial people believe, but is rather an active ability to suppress, positive in the strongest sense of the discussion, to which we owe the fact that what nosotros simply live through, experience, take in, no more enters our consciousness during digestion (one could call it spiritual ingestion) than does the thousand-fold process which takes identify with our physical consumption of nutrient, our so-called ingestion. To shut the doors and windows of consciousness for a while; not to be bothered past the dissonance and boxing which our underworld of serviceable organs work with and confronting each other;a fiddling peace, a little tabula rasa of consciousness to make room for something new, above all for the nobler functions and functionaries, for ruling, predicting, predetermining (our organism runs forth oligarchic lines, y'all see) - that, as I said, is the do good of active forgetfulness, like a doorkeeper or guardian of mental order, rest and etiquette: from which can immediately see how there could be no happiness, cheerfulness, hope, pride, immediacy, without forgetfulness."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"To be incapable of taking ane's enemies, ane's accidents, even 1's misdeeds seriously for very long—that is the sign of potent, full natures in whom there is an backlog of the power to class, to mold, to recuperate and to forget (a good example of this in modem times is Mirabeau, who had no memory for insults and vile actions washed him and was unable to forgive simply because he—forgot). Such a man shakes off with a unmarried shrug many vermin that eat deep into others; here alone 18-carat 'love of one's enemies' is possible—supposing it to be possible at all on globe. How much reverence has a noble homo for his enemies!—and such reverence is a bridge to love.—For he desires his enemy for himself, as his marking of distinction; he tin endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to laurels! In contrast to this, motion picture 'the enemy' as the man of ressentiment conceives him—and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived 'the evil enemy,' 'the Evil One,' and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he so evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a 'good ane'—himself!"
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"While the noble man lives in trust and openness with himself (gennaios 'of noble descent' underlines the nuance 'upright' and probably likewise 'naïve'), the homo of ressentiment is neither upright nor naive nor honest and straightforward with himself. His soul squints; his spirit loves hiding places, hugger-mugger paths and back doors, everything covert entices him as his world, his security, his refreshment; he understands how to keep silent, how not to forget, how to expect, how to be provisionally self-deprecating and humble. A race of such men of ressentiment is bound to get eventually cleverer than any noble race; it will also honour cleverness to a far greater degree: namely, as a condition of existence of the first importance; while with noble men cleverness can hands acquire a subtle flavor of luxury and subtlety—for here information technology is far less essential than the perfect functioning of the regulating unconscious instincts or even than a sure imprudence, perhaps a bold recklessness whether in the face of danger or of the enemy, or that enthusiastic impulsiveness in anger, love, reverence, gratitude, and revenge by which noble souls have at all times recognized one another. Ressentiment itself, if it should appear in the noble human, consummates and exhausts itself in an immediate reaction, and therefore does non poison: on the other hand, information technology fails to appear at all on endless occasions on which information technology inevitably appears in the weak and impotent."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"By and large speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the ability of resistance"
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"Read from a afar star, the upper-case letter script of our earthly being would perhaps lead to the determination that the globe was the distinctively austere planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict equally much pain on themselves as they maybe tin can out of pleasance in inflicting hurting which is probably their simply pleasure."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—just why? Considering they are the near impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have ever been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"When the oppressed, downtrodden, outraged exhort one another with the vengeful cunning of impotence: "let us be dissimilar from the evil, namely good! And he is good who does non outrage, who harms nobody, who does non attack, who does not requite, who leaves revenge to God, who keeps himself hidden as we do, who avoids evil and desires trivial from life, like us, the patient, humble, and but" -- this, listened to calmly and without previous bias, really amounts to no more than: "we weak ones are, after all, weak; it would be adept if we did zero for which we are not stiff enough"; but this dry thing of fact, this prudence of the lowest order which even insects possess (popsing as dead, when in peachy danger, and then as not to do "besides much"), has, thanks to apocryphal and self-charade of impotence, clad itself in the ostentatious garb of the virtue of serenity, calm resignation, but every bit if the weakness of the weak -- that is to say, their essence, their effects, their sole ineluctable, irremovable reality - were a voluntary achievement, willed, chosen, a human action, a meritous act."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"But grant me from time to time—if there are divine goddesses in the realm beyond good and evil—grant me the sight, but one glance of something perfect, wholly achieved, happy, mighty, triumphant, something all the same capable of arousing fright! Of a man who justifies human being, of a complementary and redeeming lucky striking on the office of man for the sake of which one may yet believe in man!"
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"Every kind of antipathy for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life--is the existent sin against the holy spirit of life"
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"Supposing that what is at any rate believed to be the 'truth' really is truthful, and the pregnant of all civilization is the reduction of the beast of casualty 'man' to a tame and civilized animal, a domestic animal, then 1 would undoubtedly have to regard all those instincts of reaction and ressentiment through whose aid the noble races and their ideals were finally confounded and overthrown as the bodily instruments of civilisation; which is non to say that the bearers of these instincts themselves represent culture. Rather is the reverse not simply probable—no! today it is palpable! These bearers of the oppressive instincts that thirst for reprisal, the descendants of every kind of European and not-European slavery, and specially of the unabridged pre-Aryan populace—they represent the regression of mankind! These 'instruments of civilisation' are a disgrace to human being and rather an accusation and counterargument against 'culture' in full general!"
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Man

"For this is how things are: the diminution and leveling of European man constitutes our greatest danger, for the sight of him makes us weary.—Nosotros can run into zippo today that wants to grow greater, we doubtable that things will continue to get downward, down, to become thinner, more good-natured, more prudent, more comfy, more than mediocre, more indifferent, more Chinese, more Christian—there is no doubt that man is getting 'better' all the time."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"There is just a perspective seeing, merely a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more optics, different eyes, we tin can use to observe ane thing, the more consummate will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," exist."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"Dante, I think, committed a rough blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription, 'I too was created by eternal love'--at any rate, there would be more than justification for placing to a higher place the gateway to the Christian Paradise...the inscription 'I too was created by eternal detest'..."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Human being

"Non every end is the goal. The cease of a melody is non its goal; and yet: as long as the melody has not reached its end, information technology also hasn't reached its goal. A parable."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Human

"Was it not part of the secret black art of truly yard politics of revenge, of a farseeing, subterranean, slowly advancing, and premeditated revenge, that Israel must itself deny the real musical instrument of its revenge before all the world as a mortal enemy and nail it to the cross, and so that 'all the world,' namely all the opponents of Israel, could unhesitatingly eat just this bait? And could spiritual subtlety imagine any more dangerous allurement than this? Anything to equal the enticing, intoxicating, overwhelming, and undermining power of that symbol of the 'holy cross,' that ghastly paradox of a 'God on the cross,' that mystery of an unimaginable ultimate cruelty and self-crucifixion of God for the salvation of man?"
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"It is the noble races that have left behind them the concept 'barbarian' wherever they have gone; even their highest culture betrays a consciousness of it and even a pride in it (for example, when Pericles says to the Athenians in his famous funeral oration 'our disrespect has gained admission to every land and ocean, everywhere raising imperishable monuments to its goodness and wickedness"). This 'boldness' of noble races, mad, absurd, and sudden in its expression, the incalculability, even incredibility of their undertakings—Pericles specially commends the rhathymia of the Athenians—their indifference to and contempt for security, body, life, condolement, their hair-raising cheerfulness and profound joy in all destruction, in all the voluptuousness of victory and cruelty—all this came together, in the minds of those who suffered from it, in the image of the 'barbaric,' the 'evil enemy,' perhaps as the 'Goths,' the 'Vandals."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"Like a final signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the almost isolated and late-born human being there has even been, and in him the trouble of the noble platonic as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman"
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Man

"We are unknown to ourselves, nosotros men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could information technology happen that nosotros should ever find ourselves?"
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"We don't know ourselves, we knowledgeable people—nosotros are personally ignorant
about ourselves. And there'southward skilful reason for that. We've never tried to find out who
we are. How could it e'er happen that one twenty-four hours we'd observe our ain selves? With
justice it's been said that "Where your treasure is, there shall your middle be likewise." Our
treasure lies where the beehives of our knowledge stand. We are ever decorated with our
cognition, as if we were born winged creatures—collectors of intellectual honey. In
our hearts we are basically concerned with simply one matter, to "bring something
abode." As far as the residue of life is concerned, what people call "experience"—which
of us is serious enough for that? Who has plenty time? In these matters, I fear, nosotros've
been "missing the point."
Our hearts have not fifty-fifty been engaged—nor, for that affair, have our ears! Nosotros've
been much more like someone divinely distracted and self-captivated into whose ear
the clock has merely pealed the twelve strokes of noon with all its force and who all at
one time wakes upward and asks himself "What exactly did that clock strike?"—so nosotros rub
ourselves behind the ears afterwards and ask, totally surprised and embarrassed "What
accept we really just experienced? And more: "Who are nosotros really?" Then, as I've
mentioned, we count—after the fact—all the twelve trembling strokes of the clock of
our feel, our lives, our being—alas! in the process we keep losing the count. So
we remain necessarily strangers to ourselves, we practice not empathise ourselves, we
have to keep ourselves confused. For usa this law holds for all eternity: "Each man is
furthest from himself." Where we ourselves are concerned, we are not
"knowledgeable people."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Human

"What is it that I especially find utterly unendurable? That I cannot cope with, that makes me asphyxiate and faint? Bad air! Bad air! The approach of some ill-constituted thing; that I accept to odour the entrails of some ill-constituted soul!"
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Human

"today nosotros read of Don Quixote with a biting gustation in the rima oris, it is
about an ordeal, which would make u.s. seem very foreign and incomprehensible
to the author and his contemporaries, – they read it with a clear
conscience as the funniest of books, information technology made them most express joy themselves
to death).To run across suffering does you skilful, to make suffer, better even so – that
On the Genealogy of Morality
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48 Run across below, Supplementary material, pp. 153–iv.
49 See below, Supplementary material, pp. 137–9, pp. 140–1, pp. 143–4.
50 Don Quixote, Book II, chs 31–7.
is a hard proposition, but an aboriginal, powerful, homo-all-too-human
proffer to which, by the manner, even the apes might subscribe: equally people
say, in thinking up bizarre cruelties they conceptualize and, as it were, act out
a 'demonstration' of what man volition practice. No cruelty, no feast: that is what
the oldest and longest period in human being history teaches u.s. – and punishment,
as well, has such very strong festive aspects! –"
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

"At the centre of all these noble races nosotros cannot fail to see the blond beast of prey, the magnificent blond beast avidly prowling round for spoil and victory; this hidden centre needs release from time to time, the fauna must out once again, must return to the wild: - Roman, Arabian, Germanic, Japanese dignity, Homeric heroes, Scandinavian Vikings - in this requirement they are all alike. Information technology was the noble races which left the concept of 'barbarian' in their traces wherever they went; even their highest civilisation betrays the fact that they were conscious of this and indeed proud of it."
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

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