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

by Laurence Gane

“If you possess a virtue … you are its victim!” Thus, we praise virtue in others because we derive advantages from it.

the hardest overcoming will be the overcoming of itself: “He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.”

philosophers’ thinking is always preceded by a desire, a prejudice, an inspiration or “desire of the heart” – that is, an irrational need or belief which they proceed to make abstract and defend with reason.

“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.”