Quotes About Morality

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.

Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.

Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you- colored vapors did they seem to me before creative eyes. The creator wished to look away from himself,- and so he created the world.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powers of imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality bound to the quality of the intellect.

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

So long as the priest, that denier, calumniator and poisoner of life by profession, still counts as a higher kind of human being, there can be no answer to the question: what is truth? One has already stood truth on its head when the conscious advocate of denial and nothingness counts as the representative of 'truth

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

He who fights monster should beware, lest he become a monster himself

All thy passions in the end became virtues, and all thy devils, angels.

The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.

The man who is to be great is the one who can be the most solitary, the most hidden, the most deviant, the man beyond good and evil, lord of his virtues, a man lavishly endowed with will - this is precisely what greatness is to be called: it is able to be as much a totality as something multi-faceted, as wide as it is full

Il cristianesimo dette da bere il veleno a Eros. Questi non ne morì, ma ben degenerò, in vizio.

The worst things, however, are the petty thoughts. Verily, better to have done evilly than to have thought pettily!

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.—Nietzsche.

Behold the good and just! Whom do they hate most? The man who breaks their tables of values, the breaker, the lawbreaker:- yet he is the creator.

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

Our age knows better.... What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent—it is indecent to be a Christian today.

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

What does Nihilism mean?—That the highest values are losing their value.

Man permits himself to be lied to at night, his life long, when he dreams, and his moral sense never even tries to prevent this—although men have been said to have overcome snoring by sheer will power.