Quotes About Morality

There is no eternal justice.

Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you

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

Morality as it has hitherto been understood- and formulated by Schopenhauer, lastly, as 'denial of the will to life' is the decadence instinct itself making an imperative out of itself: it says 'perish!' - it is the judgement of the condemned...

Bad men have no songs'.* – How is it the Russians have songs?

Toate ideile despre Biseric? sunt recunoscute drept ceea ce sunt, cea mai rea ÅŸi fals? plat? din câte exist?, pentru a deprecia firea ÅŸi valorile fireÅŸti, însuÅŸi preotul e recunoscut drept ceea ce este, cea mai periculoas? spe?? de parazit, adev?ratul p?ianjen negru al vieÅ£ii...

La cel ce vrea s? fie drept pân?-n adâncul sufletului chiar ÅŸi minciuna devine filantropie.

When I came to men, then found I them resting on an old infatuation: all of them thought they had long known what was good and bad for men.

Punishment.—A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The

And again, there are those who sit in their swamp and speak thus from the rushes: 'Virtue - that means to sit quietly in the swamp. We bite nobody and avoid him who wants to bite: and in everything we hold the opinion that is given us.

whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I soon learned to separate theological from moral prejudices, and I gave up looking for a supernatural origin of evil. A

Are we immoralists doing harm to virtue?—Just as little as the anarchists are harming the princes. Only since the princes have been shot at have they been sitting securely on their thrones again. Moral: one must take shots at morality.

Something might be true, even if it is also harmful and dangerous in the highest degree.

moral judgments can never be taken literally: literally, they always contain nothing but nonsense. But they are semiotically invaluable all the same: they reveal, at least to those who are in the know, the most valuable realities of cultures and inner states that did not know enough to "understand" themselves. Morality is just a sign language, just a symptomatology: you already have to know what it's all about in order to get any use out of it.

Men were thought of as 'free' so that they could become guilty: consequently, every action had to be thought of as willed, the origin of every action as lying in the consciousness

It is the belief in the moral opposition between Good and Evil that makes the world tremendously hateful and eternally conflict ridden.

The Church and morality say, "A race, a people is destroyed by vice and luxury." My reconstituted reason says: when a people is perishing, physiologically degenerating, the effects of this are vice and luxury (that is, the need for stronger and stronger, more and more frequent stimuli, the kind of stimuli that are familiar to every exhausted nature).

Revaluation of all values!

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Qué es lo malo? Todo lo que proviene de la debilidad.

As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousness ? there can be no doubt that morality will gradually perish: this is the great spectacle in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europe ? the most terrible, most questionable, and perhaps also the most hopeful of spectacles.

Die Dummheit der Guten ist unergründlich klug.

For the indignant man, and he who perpetually tears and lacerates himself with his own teeth (or, in place of himself, the world, God, or society), may indeed, morally speaking, stand higher than the laughing and self-satisfied satyr, but in every other sense he is the more ordinary, more indifferent, and less instructive case. And no one is such a LIAR as the indignant man. 27.