Genealogy of Morals

Notes

Preface

In the Preface, Nietzsche makes clear the aim of the book

Quotes

Preface

We have no right to isolated thoughts, whether truthful or erroneous. Our thoughts should grow out of our values with the same necessity as the fruit out of the tree. Our yeas and nays, our ifs and buts should all be intimately related and bear testimony to one will, one health, one soil, one sun. Supposing you find these fruits unpalatable? What concern is that of the trees - or of us, the philosophers?

- Preface, II

"Under what conditions did man construct the value judgments good and evil?" And what is their intrinsic worth?

- Preface, III

Should this treatise seem unintelligible or jarring to some readers, I think the fault need not necessarily be laid at my door. It is plain enough, and it presumes only that the reader will have read my earlier works with some care - for they do, in fact, require careful reading.

- Preface, VIII

Links

PDF copy of Cambridge Press edition: http://www.inp.uw.edu.pl/mdsie/Political_Thought/GeneologyofMorals.pdf