Friedrich Nietzsche Deeds Quotations

Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.