Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo Quotes

“Dostoevsky, by the way, the only psychologist who had anything to teach me:”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“The most spiritual people (assuming they are the bravest) experience by far the most painful tragedies: but this is precisely why they honour life, because it provides them with their greatest adversities.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“On ne peut penser et écrire qu’assis6 (G. Flaubert). – I’ve caught you, nihilist! Sitting still is the very sin against the Holy Spirit. Only peripatetic thoughts have any value.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“I distrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“increscunt animi, virescit volnere virtus.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“The fact that education, that development–and not ‘the Reich’–is itself a goal, the fact that you need educators–and not schoolteachers or university scholars–to reach this goal, people have forgotten this”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“Aristotle, as every one knows, saw in pity a sickly and dangerous state of mind, the remedy for which was an occasional purgative: he regarded tragedy as that purgative. The instinct of life should prompt us to seek some means of puncturing any such pathological and dangerous accumulation of pity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo

“If I am just canaille then you should be too’: out of this logic come revolutions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“Plenty of zeal and self-respect, plenty of competence in communication and transaction, in reciprocity of duties, plenty of diligence, plenty of stamina – and a hereditary sense of moderation that needs to be goaded on rather than curbed. I should add that obedience still exists here without it being humiliating . . . And people do not look down on their opponents”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“When the physiognomist revealed”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“Dialectics is a type of self-defence used only by people who do not have any other weapons.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“Judgments, value judgments on life, for or against, can ultimately never be true: they have value only as symptoms, they can be taken seriously only as symptoms,”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“Princes sit securely on their thrones only after they’ve been shot at.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“hatred of lying and disguise that comes from a delicate sense of honour; there is also a hatred that comes from cowardice, since lying is forbidden by divine commandment. Too cowardly to lie . . .”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“People rarely rush into things only once. The first time you rush into things, you always do too much. That’s why you usually do the same thing again – and then you do too little . . .”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“When you look for beginnings, you become a crab. Historians look backwards; and they end up believing backwards too.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“Where there is a struggle, it is a struggle for power . . . You should not confuse Malthus with nature.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“The strange, sick world that the Gospels introduce to us–a world like a Russian novel, where the dregs of society, nerve cases, and ‘childlike’ idiocy all seem to converge”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“(Precisely because of this capacity to string unhappy people along, the Greeks considered hope to be the evil of evils, the truly insidious evil: it was left behind in the box of evils.)”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“Pity makes suffering into something infectious;”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“I lifted the curtain to reveal the corruption of humanity. This word, coming from my mouth, is absolved of one suspicion at least: the suspicion that it implies some moral indictment of human beings.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“the human is an endpoint”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings

“To live alone, you need to be either an animal or a god–says Aristotle. But he left out the third case: you can be both–a philosopher . . .”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings