Character: Friedrich Nietzsche. Page 2

The act of compassion inevitably contains, first, self-affirmation, second, pleasure, and thirdly, hypocrisy. In compassion there is an exaggeration, a playful sympathy, incommensurable with the depth of the suffering's pain.

Good is not the beginning and end of everything, but only one of the manifestations of life, not the first and not the last.

There are gradations between people and, therefore, between types of morality.

God Himself lay down at the end of his working day under the tree of knowledge: so he rested from his being, as the being of God ... He made everything too beautiful ... The devil is only the idleness of God on every seventh day.

What falls, you still need to push. Pushing a falling person is about renewing values, using philosophy as a hammer breaking the walls of a dungeon.

Hurry up, return the virtue that has flown away from it to the earth - yes, return it for love and for life: and may virtue be the meaning of the earth, its human meaning!

Be fair to those who despise you.

To return a clear conscience to an evil person - is this not my involuntary aspiration?

It is unbearable for me to break a word, especially murder.

People are best led by the nose of morality!

This workshop where ideals are fabricated - I think it smelled of lies.

Cruelty is incompatible with the high stage of culture and human perfection.

The state lies in all the languages of good and evil: in speeches it is false, and everything it has is stolen by it.

Do military victories provide grounds for cultural humiliation of another nation?