"Of all evil I deem you capable:..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.”
“Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.”
“As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.”
More on Good And Evil
“It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.”
“I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.”
“You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.”