Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Goodness
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Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
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When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.
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We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?
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Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.
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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.
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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
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What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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