FROM BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: Nietzsche aphorisms I really like. See the next post for comments on a few of them. Unsurprisingly, I don’t necessarily agree with them, but I think they’re excellent shards of insight or jumping-off points. For the ones on love, see esp. my senior essay (apologies in advance for the formatting).

67: Love of one is a barbarism; for it is exercised at the expense of all others. The love of God, too.

68: “I have done that,” says my memory. “I cannot have done that,” says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually–memory yields.

70: If one has character one also has one’s typical experience, which recurs repeatedly.

85: The same affects in man and woman are yet different in tempo: therefore man and woman do not cease to misunderstand one another.

90: Who has not, for the sake of his good reputation–sacrificed himself once?–

95: To be ashamed of one’s immorality–that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

102: Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant one with the beloved. “What? this person is modest enough to love even you? Or stupid enough? Or–or–”

103: Danger in happiness. –“Now everything redounds to my best, now I love every destiny–who feels like being my destiny?”

107: Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counterargument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

153: Whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil.