# BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL  ## Metadata - Author: [[Friedrich Nietzsche, Helen Zimmern (Translator)]] - Full Title: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Category: #books ## Highlights - Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? ([Location 115](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=115)) - Note: Principles are against nature - that which in the end always prefers a handful of "certainty" to a whole cartload of beautiful possibilities; there may even be puritanical fanatics of conscience, who prefer to put their last trust in a sure nothing, rather than in an uncertain something. But that is Nihilism, and the sign of a despairing, mortally wearied soul, ([Location 128](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=128)) - a thought comes when "it" wishes, and not when "I" wish; so that it is a PERVERSION of the facts of the case to say that the subject "I" is the condition of the predicate "think." ([Location 230](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=230)) - A man who WILLS commands something within himself which renders obedience, or which he believes renders obedience. ([Location 255](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=255)) - we have contrived to retain our ignorance in order to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, thoughtlessness, imprudence, heartiness, and gaiety—in order to enjoy life! ([Location 342](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=342)) - no one is such a LIAR as the indignant man. ([Location 395](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=395)) - It is nothing more than a moral prejudice that truth is worth more than semblance; ([Location 494](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=494)) - Not to cleave to any person, be it even the dearest—every person is a prison and also a recess. ([Location 560](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=560)) - how could there be a "common good"! The expression contradicts itself; that which can be common is always of small value. In the end things must be as they are and have always been—the ([Location 575](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=575)) - Tags: [[Philosophy]] - severity, violence, slavery, danger in the street and in the heart, secrecy, stoicism, tempter's art and devilry of every kind,—that everything wicked, terrible, tyrannical, predatory, and serpentine in man, serves as well for the elevation of the human species as its opposite—we ([Location 594](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=594)) - Perhaps there has hitherto been no more effective means of beautifying man than piety, by means of it man can become so artful, so superficial, so iridescent, and so good, that his appearance no longer offends. ([Location 781](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=781)) - The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play. ([Location 878](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=878)) - What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal. ([Location 881](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=881)) - Our vanity is most difficult to wound just when our pride has been wounded. ([Location 895](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=895)) - To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them. ([Location 896](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=896)) - The immense expectation with regard to sexual love, and the coyness in this expectation, spoils all the perspectives of women at the outset. ([Location 898](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=898)) - The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions. ([Location 901](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0719923JF&location=901))