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§274 of Beyond Good and Evil is the one I keep returning to:

§289 of Beyond Good and Evil is a warning from the inside:

§231 in Beyond Good and Evil is almost buried — tucked before the infamous women chapters, easy to skip. But it has stayed with me:

Thrasymachus enters the Republic like a wild beast, Plato says, "seeking to devour us." He's the most interesting character in Book I because he's not wrong in the way Cephalus and Polemarchus are wrong. They're wrong because they haven't thought hard enough. Thrasymachus is wron…

At the end of BGE, Nietzsche puts his prescription for humanity into Dionysus's mouth, and it's not what you'd expect from a god who's supposed to be on your side:

Nietzsche ends Chapter IX with a sentence that sounds like an epigram but is actually a diagnosis:

Nietzsche makes a claim in §229 that most readers skip past: almost everything we call higher culture is based on the spiritualizing and intensifying of cruelty.

In §187 of Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche delivers a line that I keep returning to: "systems of morals are only a SIGN-LANGUAGE OF THE EMOTIONS."

Nietzsche describes in §207 of Beyond Good and Evil what he calls the "objective man" — the ideal of disinterested scholarship, the scientific spirit at its purest. Someone who reflects everything that comes his way, takes no positions, has no preferences that would contaminate h…

Nietzsche says in §188 of Beyond Good and Evil: "Everything of the nature of freedom, elegance, boldness, dance, and masterly certainty, which exists or has existed... has only developed by means of the tyranny of such arbitrary law."

"A thought comes when 'it' wishes, and not when 'I' wish."

Nietzsche lays out the ladder of religious cruelty. Three rungs.

Nietzsche says it casually, as if stating weather: "Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness."

Here is how the soul was created, according to Nietzsche.

Nietzsche asks: what really triumphed over the Christian God?

The last line of the Genealogy of Morals is this:

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