Introducing Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides Book 0)

by Laurence Gane

“The will of the weaker persuades it to serve the stronger; its will wants to be master over those weaker still: this delight alone it is unwilling to forgo.”

“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.”

“Who else should we wish to serve, if not ourselves?”

“The Jews are beyond all doubt the strongest, toughest, and purest race at present living in Europe.”

“philosophizing with a hammer as with a tuning fork”

“Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.”

“The Christian faith is from the beginning sacrifice: sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of the spirit, and at the same time enslavement and self-mockery, self-mutilation.”

“… ever since there have been human beings there have also been human herds (family groups, communities, tribes, nations, states, churches), and always very many who obey compared with the very small number of those who command – considering, that is to say, that hitherto nothing has been practised and cultivated among men better or longer than obedience, it is fair to suppose that as a rule a need for it is by now innate as a kind of formal conscience which commands: Thou shalt unconditionally do this, unconditionally not do that, in short ‘Thou shalt’. This need seeks to be satisfied and to fill out its forms with a content: in doing so it grasps about wildly, according to the degree of its strength, impatience and tension, with little discrimination, as a crude appetite, and accepts whatever any commander – parent, teacher, law, class prejudice, public opinion – shouts in its ears.”

“There are no moral phenomena at all, only a moral interpretation of phenomena …”

“A profound man needs friends, unless he has a God. I have neither God nor friend.”