Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche’s book of essays and aphorisms in nine chapters, attacking the moral and metaphysical prejudices of earlier philosophers and looking to a coming kind of philosopher who will create new values.

Start reading11 chapters, about 64,000 words

Famous quotes

• Christianity is Platonism for the “people”.

  PreludeIn context

  • Christianity
  • Philosophy

• What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

  Chapter IV, aphorism 153, tr. Helen ZimmernIn context

  • Good & Evil
  • Love

• Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

  In context

• The noble soul has reverence for itself.

  Chapter IXIn context

  • Character
  • Pride

Contents

1. Preface
2. Chapter IPrejudices of Philosophers
3. Chapter IIThe Free Spirit
4. Chapter IIIThe Religious Mood
5. Chapter IVApophthegms and Interludes
6. Chapter VThe Natural History of Morals
7. Chapter VIWe Scholars
8. Chapter VIIOur Virtues
9. Chapter VIIIPeoples and Countries
10. Chapter IXWhat Is Noble?
11. From the Heights