Quotes From “On the Genealogy of Morals” by Friedrich Nietzsche

This article contains quotes I selected from “On the Genealogy of Morals” by Friedrich Nietzsche. I divided the quotes into four sections, corresponding to the four sections of “On the Genealogy of Morals”. The sections are as follows:

• Quotes from the Preface
• Quotes from the First Essay: ‘Good and Evil’, ‘Good and Bad’
• Quotes from the Second Essay: ‘Guilt’, ‘Bad Conscience’, and Related Matters
• Quotes from the Third Essay: What is the Meaning of Ascetic Ideals?

Quotes from the Preface

• “under what conditions did man invent the value-judgements good and evil? And what value do they themselves possess?”
• “For me, what was at stake was the value of morality”
• “At issue was the value of the ‘unegoistic’, the instincts of compassion, self-abnegation, self-sacrifice, those very instincts which Schopenhauer had for so long made golden, godly, and transcendent, until finally they became for him ‘values in themselves’, on the basis of which he said no to life and also to himself. But it was against these very instincts that an increasingly fundamental suspicion, a scepticism which dug ever deeper, spoke out within me! It was here that I saw the great danger…