A collection of various quotes and notes from Friedrich Nietzsche's work that directly reflects his racialist worldview
"The Greeks believed in a difference of races."
(Nachl, Spring–Summer 1875, KSA 8, 5[72])
"There is only nobility by birth, only nobility by blood Where 'aristocrats of the spirit' are spoken of, there is usually no lack of reasons to conceal something; it is notoriously a favorite word among ambitious Jews.
Spirit alone, namely, does not ennoble; rather, it first needs something
that ennobles the spirit.
What does it need for this? Blood."
(Nachl., August–September 1885, KSA 11, 41[3]).
"It would not be possible that a person does not to have the qualities
and preferences of his parents and ancestors in his body: whatever
appearances may say against it. This is the problem of race.
'... with the help of the best education
and cultivation, one will only succeed in deceiving about such an
inheritance."
(Beyond Good and Evil)
"The descent from good ancestors constitutes the true nobility of birth;
a single interruption in that chain, an evil ancestor therefore,
nullifies the nobility of birth."
(Human, All Too Human)
"Perhaps as a consequence of the crossing of too foreign races (or of
classes, classes always express differences in origin and race: the
European 'Weltschmerz', the 'pessimism' of the nineteenth century, is
essentially the consequence of an irrationally sudden class mixing)"
(On the Genealogy of Morality, Essay III)
"It is completely in order that we have no religion of oppressed Aryan
races: for that is a contradiction: a master race is on top, or it
perishes."
(Nachl., Spring 1888, KSA 13, 14[195])
"Essentially, the subjected race has finally regained the upper hand
there, in color, shortness of skull, perhaps even in the intellectual
and social instincts: who can guarantee to us whether modern democracy,
the even more modern anarchism, and especially that inclination for
'Commune', for the most primitive form of society, which is now common
to all the socialists of Europe, does not in the main signify a
monstrous atavism, and that the conqueror and master race, that of the
Aryans, is not physiologically being vanquished?"
(On the Genealogy of Morality, First Essay)
"Some pack of blonde beasts of prey, a conqueror and master race which,
organized for war and with the ability to organize, unhesitatingly lays
its terrible claws upon a populace perhaps tremendously superior in
numbers but still formless and nomad. That is after all how the 'state'
began on earth."
(On the Genealogy of Morality, Second Essay)
"How much falsehood and swamp is needed to raise racial questions in
today's mishmash Europe."
(Nachl., Summer 1886–Autumn 1887, KSA 12, 5[52])
"The spell of definite grammatical functions is ultimately the spell of
physiological value judgments and racial conditions."
(Beyond Good and Evil)
"One may be perfectly justified in being always afraid of the blonde
beast that lies at the base of all noble races and in being on one's
guard: but who would not a hundred times prefer to fear when one can
also admire, than to be safe from fear, but thereby eternally condemned
to the disgusting sight of the ill-constituted, dwarfed, atrophied, and
poisoned. And is not this our fate?"
(On the Genealogy of Morality, First Essay)
