"It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong."

"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." (Aphorism 146)

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil." (Aphorism 153)

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule." (Aphorism 156)

"The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us." (Aphorism 116)

"One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. 'Good' is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it." (Aphorism 43)

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." (Aphorism 12)

"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night." (Aphorism 157)

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." (Aphorism 195)

"There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause." (Aphorism 191)

"Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises." (Aphorism 78)

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil critiques traditional morality, asserting that good and evil are subjective. He promotes the "will to power" and encourages individuals to create their own values, challenging dogma and calling for a re-evaluation of ethics.

After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in &quot;Thus Spake Zarathustra, &quot; Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of &quot;Beyond Good and Evil.&quot; Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains, and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought, and creation. Nietzsche especially targets what he calls a &quot;slave morality&quot; that fosters herdlike quiescence and stigmatizes the &quot;highest human types.&quot;In this pathbreaking work, Nietzsche's philosophical and literary powers are at their height: with devastating irony and flashing wit he gleefully dynamites centuries of accumulated conventional wisdom in metaphysics, morals, and psychology, clearing a path for such twentieth-century innovators as Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, Sigmund Freud, George Bernard Shaw, Andre Malraux, and Jean-Paul Sartre, all of whom openly acknowledged their debt to him.Students of philosophy and literature as well as general readers will prize this rich sampling of Nietzsche's thought in an unabridged and inexpensive edition of one of the philosopher's most important works.Dover (1997) unabridged republication of the Helen Zimmern translation. Publisher's Introduction.&quot;

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