Beyond Good and Evil

The following is a reprint of the Helen Zimmern translation from German into English of Beyond Good...

SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman what then. Is there not ground for suspecting that all...

1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness...

2. HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite. For example, truth out of error. or the Will...

3. Having kept a sharp eye on philosophers, and having read between their lines long enough, I now...

4. The falseness of an opinion is not for us any objection to it. it is here, perhaps, that our new...

5. That which causes philosophers to be regarded half distrustfully and half mockingly, is not the...

6. It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of...

7. How malicious philosophers can be. I know of nothing more stinging than the joke Epicurus took...

9. You desire to LIVE according to Nature. Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words. Imagine to...

10. The eagerness and subtlety, I should even say craftiness, with which the problem of the real...

11. It seems to me that there is everywhere an attempt at present to divert attention from the...

But such replies belong to the realm of comedy, and it is high time to replace the Kantian...

12. As regards materialistic atomism, it is one of the best refuted theories that have been...

13. Psychologists should bethink themselves before putting down the instinct of self preservation...

14. It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that natural philosophy is only a world...

15. To study physiology with a clear conscience, one must insist on the fact that the sense organs...

16. There are still harmless self observers who believe that there are immediate certainties; for...

17. With regard to the superstitions of logicians, I shall never tire of emphasizing a small, terse...

18. It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby...

19. Philosophers are accustomed to speak of the will as though it were the best known thing in the...

20. That the separate philosophical ideas are not anything optional or autonomously evolving, but...

21. The CAUSA SUI is the best self contradiction that has yet been conceived, it is a sort of...

22. Let me be pardoned, as an old philologist who cannot desist from the mischief of putting his...

23. All psychology hitherto has run aground on moral prejudices and timidities, it has not dared to...

24. O sancta simplicitas. In what strange simplification and falsification man lives. One can never...

25. After such a cheerful commencement, a serious word would fain be heard; it appeals to the most...

26. Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the...

27. It is difficult to be understood, especially when one thinks and lives gangasrotogati Footnote....

28. What is most difficult to render from one language into another is the TEMPO of its style,...

29. It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And...

30. Our deepest insights must and should appear as follies, and under certain circumstances as...

31. In our youthful years we still venerate and despise without the art of NUANCE, which is the...

32. Throughout the longest period of human history one calls it the prehistoric period the value or...

33. It cannot be helped. the sentiment of surrender, of sacrifice for ones neighbour, and all self...

34. At whatever standpoint of philosophy one may place oneself nowadays, seen from every position,...

35. O Voltaire. O humanity. O idiocy. There is something ticklish in the truth, and in the SEARCH...

36. Supposing that nothing else is given as real but our world of desires and passions, that we...

38. As happened finally in all the enlightenment of modern times with the French Revolution that...

39. Nobody will very readily regard a doctrine as true merely because it makes people happy or...

40. Everything that is profound loves the mask. the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure...

41. One must subject oneself to ones own tests that one is destined for independence and command,...

42. A new order of philosophers is appearing; I shall venture to baptize them by a name not without...

43. Will they be new friends of truth, these coming philosophers. Very probably, for all...

44. Need I say expressly after all this that they will be free, VERY free spirits, these...

45. The human soul and its limits, the range of mans inner experiences hitherto attained, the...

46. Faith, such as early Christianity desired, and not infrequently achieved in the midst of a...

47. Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared on the earth so far, we find it connected with...

48. It seems that the Latin races are far more deeply attached to their Catholicism than we...

We Northerners undoubtedly derive our origin from barbarous races, even as regards our talents for...

49. That which is so astonishing in the religious life of the ancient Greeks is the irrestrainable...

50. The passion for God. there are churlish, honest hearted, and importunate kinds of it, like that...

51. The mightiest men have hitherto always bowed reverently before the saint, as the enigma of self...

52. In the Jewish Old Testament, the book of divine justice, there are men, things, and sayings on...

53. Why Atheism nowadays. The father in God is thoroughly refuted; equally so the judge, the...

54. What does all modern philosophy mainly do. Since Descartes and indeed more in defiance of him...

55. There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, with many rounds; but three of these are the most...

56. Whoever, like myself, prompted by some enigmatical desire, has long endeavoured to go to the...

57. The distance, and as it were the space around man, grows with the strength of his intellectual...

58. Has it been observed to what extent outward idleness, or semi idleness, is necessary to a real...

59. Whoever has seen deeply into the world has doubtless divined what wisdom there is in the fact...

60. To love mankind FOR GODS SAKE this has so far been the noblest and remotest sentiment to which...

61. The philosopher, as WE free spirits understand him as the man of the greatest responsibility,...

62. To be sure to make also the bad counter reckoning against such religions, and to bring to light...

87. FETTERED HEART, FREE SPIRIT When one firmly fetters ones heart and keeps it prisoner, one can...

105. The pia fraus is still more repugnant to the taste the piety of the free spirit the pious man...

131. The sexes deceive themselves about each other. the reason is that in reality they honour and...

186. The moral sentiment in Europe at present is perhaps as subtle, belated, diverse, sensitive,...

187. Apart from the value of such assertions as there is a categorical imperative in us, one can...

188. In contrast to laisser aller, every system of morals is a sort of tyranny against nature and...

189. Industrious races find it a great hardship to be idle. it was a master stroke of ENGLISH...

190. There is something in the morality of Plato which does not really belong to Plato, but which...

191. The old theological problem of Faith and Knowledge, or more plainly, of instinct and reason...

192. Whoever has followed the history of a single science, finds in its development a clue to the...

193. Quidquid luce fuit, tenebris agit. but also contrariwise. What we experience in dreams,...

194. The difference among men does not manifest itself only in the difference of their lists of...

195. The Jews a people born for slavery, as Tacitus and the whole ancient world say of them; the...

196. It is to be INFERRED that there are countless dark bodies near the sun such as we shall never...

197. The beast of prey and the man of prey for instance, Caesar Borgia are fundamentally...

198. All the systems of morals which address themselves with a view to their happiness, as it is...

199. Inasmuch as in all ages, as long as mankind has existed, there have also been human herds...

200. The man of an age of dissolution which mixes the races with one another, who has the...

201. As long as the utility which determines moral estimates is only gregarious utility, as long as...

202. Let us at once say again what we have already said a hundred times, for peoples ears nowadays...

203. We, who hold a different belief we, who regard the democratic movement, not only as a...

204. At the risk that moralizing may also reveal itself here as that which it has always been...

205. The dangers that beset the evolution of the philosopher are, in fact, so manifold nowadays,...

206. In relation to the genius, that is to say, a being who either ENGENDERS or PRODUCES both words...

207. However gratefully one may welcome the OBJECTIVE spirit and who has not been sick to death of...

208. When a philosopher nowadays makes known that he is not a skeptic I hope that has been gathered...

209. As to how far the new warlike age on which we Europeans have evidently entered may perhaps...

210. Supposing, then, that in the picture of the philosophers of the future, some trait suggests...

211. I insist upon it that people finally cease confounding philosophical workers, and in general...

212. It is always more obvious to me that the philosopher, as a man INDISPENSABLE for the morrow...

213. It is difficult to learn what a philosopher is, because it cannot be taught. one must know it...

214. OUR Virtues. It is probable that we, too, have still our virtues, although naturally they are...

215. As in the stellar firmament there are sometimes two suns which determine the path of one...

216. To love ones enemies. I think that has been well learnt. it takes place thousands of times at...

217. Let us be careful in dealing with those who attach great importance to being credited with...

218. The psychologists of France and where else are there still psychologists nowadays. have never...

219. The practice of judging and condemning morally, is the favourite revenge of the intellectually...

220. Now that the praise of the disinterested person is so popular one must probably not without...

221. It sometimes happens, said a moralistic pedant and trifle retailer, that I honour and respect...

222. Wherever sympathy fellow suffering is preached nowadays and, if I gather rightly, no other...

223. The hybrid European a tolerably ugly plebeian, taken all in all absolutely requires a costume....

224. The historical sense or the capacity for divining quickly the order of rank of the valuations...

225. Whether it be hedonism, pessimism, utilitarianism, or eudaemonism, all those modes of thinking...

226. WE IMMORALISTS. This world with which WE are concerned, in which we have to fear and love,...

227. Honesty, granting that it is the virtue of which we cannot rid ourselves, we free spirits...

228. I hope to be forgiven for discovering that all moral philosophy hitherto has been tedious and...

229. In these later ages, which may be proud of their humanity, there still remains so much fear,...

230. Perhaps what I have said here about a fundamental will of the spirit may not be understood...

231. Learning alters us, it does what all nourishment does that does not merely conserve as the...

232. Woman wishes to be independent, and therefore she begins to enlighten men about woman as she...

233. It betrays corruption of the instincts apart from the fact that it betrays bad taste when a...

234. Stupidity in the kitchen; woman as cook; the terrible thoughtlessness with which the feeding...

235. There are turns and casts of fancy, there are sentences, little handfuls of words, in which a...

236. I have no doubt that every noble woman will oppose what Dante and Goethe believed about woman...

237A. Woman has hitherto been treated by men like birds, which, losing their way, have come down...

238. To be mistaken in the fundamental problem of man and woman, to deny here the profoundest...

239. The weaker sex has in no previous age been treated with so much respect by men as at present...

240. I HEARD, once again for the first time, Richard Wagners overture to the Mastersinger. it is a...

241. We good Europeans, we also have hours when we allow ourselves a warm hearted patriotism, a...

242. Whether we call it civilization, or humanising, or progress, which now distinguishes the...

244. There was a time when it was customary to call Germans deep by way of distinction; but now...

245. The good old time is past, it sang itself out in Mozart how happy are WE that his ROCOCO still...

246. What a torture are books written in German to a reader who has a THIRD ear. How indignantly he...

247. How little the German style has to do with harmony and with the ear, is shown by the fact that...

248. There are two kinds of geniuses. one which above all engenders and seeks to engender, and...

250. What Europe owes to the Jews. Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature...

251. It must be taken into the bargain, if various clouds and disturbances in short, slight attacks...

252. They are not a philosophical race the English. Bacon represents an ATTACK on the philosophical...

253. There are truths which are best recognized by mediocre minds, because they are best adapted...

What is called modern ideas, or the ideas of the eighteenth century, or French ideas that,...

254. Even at present France is still the seat of the most intellectual and refined culture of...

They have all something in common. they keep their ears closed in presence of the delirious folly...

255. I hold that many precautions should be taken against German music. Suppose a person loves the...

256. Owing to the morbid estrangement which the nationality craze has induced and still induces...

Is this our mode. From German heart came this vexed ululating. From German body, this self...

257. EVERY elevation of the type man, has hitherto been the work of an aristocratic society and so...

258. Corruption as the indication that anarchy threatens to break out among the instincts, and that...

259. To refrain mutually from injury, from violence, from exploitation, and put ones will on a par...

260. In a tour through the many finer and coarser moralities which have hitherto prevailed or still...

261. Vanity is one of the things which are perhaps most difficult for a noble man to understand. he...

262. A SPECIES originates, and a type becomes established and strong in the long struggle with...

263. There is an INSTINCT FOR RANK, which more than anything else is already the sign of a HIGH...

264. It cannot be effaced from a mans soul what his ancestors have preferably and most constantly...

265. At the risk of displeasing innocent ears, I submit that egoism belongs to the essence of a...

267. The Chinese have a proverb which mothers even teach their children. SIAO SIN MAKE THY HEART...

268. What, after all, is ignobleness. Words are vocal symbols for ideas; ideas, however, are more...