From Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and a Latin and Greek scholar, Beyond Good and Evil (1886):
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.
From Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, Beyond Good and Evil (1886):
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. “Good” is no longer good when one’s neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a “common good”! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.
From Friedrich Neitzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, Human, All Too Human (1878):
In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.
From Friedrich Nietzsche, (1844–1900), German philosopher, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (1891):
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
A concise summary of government.
From Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, Human, All Too Human (1878):
Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word ‘justice’ into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason… and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play.
From Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, The Dawn (1881):
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
