Beyond Good and Evil
Yesterday I read Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil that I retrieved from the Gutenberg Project.
I picked some interesting paragraphs from the chapter APOPHTHEGMS AND INTERLUDES.
68. “I did that,” says my memory. “I could not have done that,” says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually–the memory yields.
72. It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
108. There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
110. The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of
the doer.
121. It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author–and that he did not learn it better.
131. The sexes deceive themselves about each other: the reason is that in reality they honour and love only themselves (or their own ideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wishes woman to be peaceable: but in fact woman is ESSENTIALLY unpeaceable, like the cat, however well she may have assumed the peaceable demeanour.
153. What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
169. To talk much about oneself may also be a means of concealing oneself.
