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“Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.”

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and writer whose works have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophy, literature, and thought. His ideas revolve around concepts such as the 'will to power', the 'Übermensch', and the 'eternal recurrence'. more

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“If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.”

Ifs Men Mean Opinion Generations Salvation Eras Liberation Lazy Laziness Public Opinion Reluctant Pseudo Relics

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.”

Found Process Pleasure Produce Opposites Transformation Injury Nonsense Suitable Jest Optional

Book:Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

“He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.”

Deeds Scapegoat Daybreak

Book:Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“We are always in our own company.”

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.”

Different Creative Morality Slave Deeds Noble Affirmation Triumphant Genealogy

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!”

Humans Teach Ancient Punishment Cruelty Festivals Human History Festive

Book:Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Thought

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Thought

“The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".”

Ends Would Be Justice Existence Equal Doctrine Being True Inequality Poison Venomous Justice Equality True Justice

Book:Twilight of the Idols

Source: Twilight of the Idols

“The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.”

States Joy Three Elements Sexuality Cruelty Belonging Fullness Intoxication Transfiguration

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.”

Needs Mean Cases Degrees Distinction Consolation Assertion

Book:Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity.”

Ifs World Ideas Would Be Modern Mankind Greatness Particular Diversity Bases Philosopher Corners These Days Range Midst Compelled Totality Multiplicity Specialty

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche