Quotes About Morality

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

the lie is a condition of life.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves when I deal with them...

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!

The worst mutilation of man that can be imagined presented as the good man.

Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.

I would prefer to be a satyr rather than a saint.

The bite of conscience is indecent.

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

A virtue must be our invention; it must spring out of our personal need and defence.

The feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one's neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court.... There is too much charm and sugar in these feelings of 'for others,' 'not for myself,' for us not to need to become doubly suspicious at this point and to ask: 'are these not perhaps-seductions?

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

Morality negates life.

The great epochs of life come when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil as what is best in us

In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this book than the Christian teaching, which is, and wants to be, only moral and which relegates art, every art, to the realm of lies ; with its absolute standards, beginning with the truthfulness of God, it negates, judges, and damns art.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved.

Whoever extolls him as a God of love, does not think highly enough of love itself.

good men never tell the truth. The good taught you false shores and false securities: you were born and kept in the lies of the good. Everything has been distorted and twisted down to its very bottom through the good

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