Unpublished Fragments Quotes

“—“The World as Will and Representation”—translated back into the narrow and personal, into Schopenhauerian: “The world as sex-drive and contemplativeness.”—”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“Against the theory of the influence of milieu and of external causes: the inner force is infinitely superior; much that looks like influence from without is only its adaptation from the inside out. The very same milieu's can be oppositely interpreted and exploited: there are no facts. - A genius is not explained from such conditions of origin.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“What separates us from Kant just as from Plato and Leibniz: we believe only in becoming, also in matters of spirit, we are historical through and through. This is the great reversal. Lamarck and Hegel - Darwin is only an aftereffect. The manner of thinking of Heraclitus and Empedocles has risen again. Even Kant did not overcome the contradictio in adjecto "pure spirit": but we did.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“Morality is a part of the theory of affects: how far do the affects reach into the heart of existence?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“My need for new philosophers. Where will they come from?
Only where a noble way of thinking reigns, one that believes in slavery and in many degrees of bondage as the prerequisite of any higher culture; where a creative way of thinking reigns, which does not set the world's goal as the happiness of repose, the “Sabbath of all Sabbaths” and honors peace itself as a means to new wars; a way of thinking that prescribes laws for the future, which treats itself and everything of the present harshly and tyrannically for the sake of the future; a heedless, “immoral” way of thinking that wants to cultivate to greatness the good and wicked qualities of humans equally, because it trusts in its strength to deploy both in the right place — in the place where both are essential to one another.
Our age has the opposite instincts: above all and in the first place it wants comfort; secondly it wants publicity and that grand noise of actors, that grand boom-boom that corresponds to its fairground-taste; thirdly it wants everyone to crawl on their belly in deepest subservience before the greatest of all lies — this lie is called “equality of human beings” — and it honors exclusively the virtues that make equal and assign equal rights.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“A human being who strives for greatness regards everyone he encounters along the way either as a means or as a delay or as a temporary resting place. His unique and superior graciousness toward fellow human beings is only possible when he is at his height and dominating. Impatience and the feeling that up till now he has been condemned to comedy ruins every relationship for him: this kind of human being knows solitude and what is most poisonous in it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“From the world known to us the humanitarian God cannot be proven: today you can be compelled and driven this far — but what conclusion do you draw from this? Either he is not provable to us: skepticism of knowledge. But all of you fear the conclusion: “from the world known to us an entirely different god would be provable, one who at least is not humanitarian” — — and, that means, i.e., you hold on tightly to your God and invent for him a world that is not known to us.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“Christianity will shatter from the absolute character of its morality.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“That the value of the world lies in our interpretation (— that perhaps somewhere yet other interpretations than merely human ones are possible —) that the interpretations so far are perspectival valuations by virtue of which we sustain ourselves in life, that is in the will to power, for the growth of power, that every elevation of human beings brings with it the overcoming of narrower interpretations, that every achieved strengthening and expansion of power opens up new perspectives and means believing in new horizons — this runs through my writings. The world that concerns us is false i.e., is not a fact, but a fiction and a rounding based on a meager sum of observations; it is “in flux,” as something becoming, as a falseness that is ever-shifting, that never approaches truth: for — there is no “truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“NB. Religions perish from the belief in morality: the Christian-moral God is not sustainable: consequently “atheism” — as if there could be no other kind of gods.
Likewise culture perishes from the belief in morality: for when the necessary conditions from which it alone grows are discovered, then one no longer wants it: Buddhism.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“The significance of German philosophy (Hegel) : to think up a pantheism in which evil, error and suffering are not perceived as arguments against divinity. This grandiose initiative has been misused by the existing powers (state etc.), as if the rationality of whatever happened to rule at the time was thereby sanctioned.

Schopenhauer by contrast appears as the obstinate moral human being who finally becomes a world-denier in order to be right about his moral(istic) estimation. Finally becomes a "mystic."

I myself have attempted an aesthetic justification: how is the ugliness of the world possible? - I took the will to beauty, to persisting in the same forms, as a temporary means of preservation and healing: but fundamentally the eternally creative as that which must eternally destroy seemed to me bound to pain. The ugly is the form of observation of things under the will to posit a meaning, a new meaning into what has become meaningless: the accumulated force that compels the creator to feel previous things as untenable, misshapen, worthy of renunciation, as ugly?—

The deception of Apollo: the eternity of the beautiful form; the aristocratic law-giving "thus it shall always be!"
Dionysus: sensuality and cruelty. Transitoriness could be interpreted as enjoyment of the begetting and destroying force, as constant creation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“The human being is above all a judging animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“It is a matter of bad taste under all circumstances to beg much instead of to give much: the mixture of humble servility with a courtly-rabble-like obtrusiveness, with which e.g., Saint Augustine grovels before God in his Confessions, reminds us that human beings perhaps are not alone among animals with religious feelings: dogs have a similar "religious feeling" for human beings.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“It is terrifying to think that my thoughts on woman could drive some lady writer to the vengeful idea of having children after she has already tortured herself and the world sufficiently with her books!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments

“Numbers are our major means for making the world manageable. We comprehend as far as we can count, i.e., as far as a constancy can be perceived.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments