Quotes About Morality

Those who have abandoned God cling that much more firmly to the faith in morality.

If the morality of thou shalt not lie is rejected, the sense for truth will have to legitimize itself before another tribunal:— as a means of the preservation of man, as will to power.

nihilism represents the ultimate logical conclusion of our great values and ideals—because we must experience nihilism before we can find out what value these values really had.'— We require, sometime, new values.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

A pillar of trash once affirmed of itself (unwittingly) and others I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience, most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster . . . when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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