Quotes About Judgment

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had—power.

Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.

In letting God sit in judgment they judge themselves; in glorifying God they glorify themselves.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his spade aside; there is also something suspicious about it. Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hideout, every word also a mask.

Every word is a prejudice.

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

I suffer: someone or other must be guilty' – and every sick sheep thinks the same.

we often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole – there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole…But nothing exists apart from the whole!

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

This is the antinomy: insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes indiscriminately: it does not like to say Yes; better to say No, but best of all to say nothing.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws!

We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity.

if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong.

When a man feels that he has a divine mission, say to lift up, to save or to liberate mankind - when a man feels the divine spark in his heart and believes that he is the mouthpiece of supernatural imperatives - when such a mission inflames him, it is only natural that he should stand beyond all merely reasonable standards of judgment. He feels that he is himself sanctified by this mission, that he is himself a type of a higher order!