Beyond Good and Evil

akes things seriously-and even him

e last snare laid by morality: we are there

small, were it not so much shame h

rable towards our God: he

to be degraded, robbed, deceived, and exploi

y, for it is exercised at the expe

ot have done that," says my pride, and remai

ssly, if one has failed to see t

he has also his typical expe

ou feelest the stars as an "above thee,"

but the duration of great se

is ideal, precisely

s his tail from every ey

unless he possess at least two th

man's sensuality extends to the

nditions the militant

or honour, or reproach, or conceal his habits: two men with the sa

, nevertheless esteems hims

oved, but does not itself love, bet

o gave the advice, "Know thyself!" Did it perhaps imply "Cease to be concer

Is it necessary that you should so salt your

d be harshness and tyranny

e one forgets even the dinner-Yes, bu

hate in proportion as

t in different TEMPO, on that account man and

sonal vanity, women themselves have st

s it prisoner, one can allow one's spirit many liberties: I said this once b

t very clever persons whe

question whether he who experiences

e temporarily to their surface, precisely by th

touch of him! Every hand that lays hold of him shrinks

or another-sacrificed himself

of men, but precisely on that account

, to have reacquired the seriousne

a step on the ladder at the end of whic

lysses parted from Nausicaa-blessi

always see merely the pla

e's conscience, it kis

EAKS-"I listened for the ec

we are simpler than we are, we thus

asily regard himself at prese

t the lover with regard to the beloved. "What! She is mo

g now turns out best for me, I now love

the impotence of their love, preven

the "pious man of knowledge") than the impia fraus. Hence the profound lack of judgment, i

sic the very passio

has been taken, to shut the ear even to the best counter

moral phenomena, but only a mor

nough not equal to his deed:

rtists enough to turn the beautiful terriblen

fficult to wound just when

templation and not to belief, all believers are

im in your favour? Then you mu

al love, and the coyness in this expectation, sp

love nor hatred in the gam

at the points when we gain courage to

, is ultimately only the will of ano

is possessed by him to whom it has not yet oc

o great as to prevent our cleaning

th of love too much, so that its root

arned Greek when he wished to turn aut

n many cases merely politeness of heart-a

nage has been cor

h over pain, but because of the fact that he doe

ut any one, we charge heavily to his accou

to arrive at six or seven great me

sense of shame. They feel as if one wished to peep under th

h you wish to teach, the more m

God; on that account he keeps so far away from him:-t

ent decreases,-when he ceases to show what he CAN do. Tale

hemselves (or their own ideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wishes woman to be peaceable: but in f

nished best fo

ideal, lives more frivolously and sha

all trustworthiness, all good c

he good man; a considerable part of it is r

ughts, the other seeks some one whom he can

opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocr

ng: we only invent and imagine him with whom

in love woman is mor

the band is not to break, b

on why man does not so rea

heard: "Dans le veritable amour c

ass precisely for what is most difficult to us.

g wrong with her sexual nature. Barrenness itself conduces to a certain

that woman would not have the genius for adornment

est he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze lo

er, from life: Buona femmina e mala fe

afterwards to believe implicitly in this opinion of their

lly an unseasonable echo of what was formerly

ound the demigod everything becomes a satyr-play; and

alent: one must also have your permi

e, there is always Paradise": so say the

f love always takes pla

, and love of irony are signs of health;

ragic increases and dec

ething rare-but in groups, parties,

consolation: by means of it one gets

our conscience, truckles to our s

ill; but why just to the pe

's knowledge sufficiently af

ly towards their experie

ur neighbour, but our neighbour's

es of a lover-his rare and exceptional traits: it is t

servants;-love God as I love him, as his Son

has always need of a bell-wether-or he

uth; but with the accompanying grim

imacy is a matter of sha

to drink; he did not die of it, c

oneself may also be a me

e is more obtrusive

us effect on a man of knowledge

f love to mankind (because one cannot embrace all); but

as one disesteems, but only whe

y as a VEHICLE for your inclinations,-ye, too, r

tely one's desires, n

only counter to our taste whe

fulness" is, perhaps nobody has

e follies of clever men: what a

us by the forelock, very indifferent to t

in lying which is the sig

n to bless when o

periors embitters one, bec

you have deceived me, but because

s of kindness which has th

"I am not a match for him."