Quotes About Morality

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster

where is the deceiver to be found?' – 'We've got it,' they cry in delight, 'it is the senses! These senses, which are so immoral as well, it is they which deceive us about the real world. Moral: escape from sense-deception, from becoming, from history, from falsehood – history is nothing but belief in the senses, belief in falsehood.

Can you furnish yourself with your own good and evil and hang up your own will above yourself as a law? Can you be judge of yourself and avenger of your law? It is terrible to be alone with the judge and avenger of one's law. It is to be like a star thrown forth into empty space and into the icy breath of solitude.

Freedoers are at disadvantage compared with freethinkers because people suffer more obviously from the consequences of deeds than from those of thoughts.

Todo lo que se hace por amor, se hace más allá del bien y del mal.

It is my fate to have to be the first decent human being. I have a terrible fear that I shall one day be pronounced holy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

With all willing we are dealing simply with commanding and obeying, on the foundation... of a social structure of many souls, which is why a philosopher should exercise the right to conceive willing itself under the horizon of morality: that is, morality understood as a doctrine of the power relations under which the phenomenon life emerges.

If we train our conscience, it will kiss us at the very moment it bites us

The Circe of mankind, morality, has falsified all psychologica to its very foundations - has moralized it - to the point of the frightful absurdity that love is supposed to be 'unegoistic' . . . One has to be firmly set upon oneself, one has to stand bravely upon one's own two legs, otherwise, one can not love at all.

All the means by which one has so far attempted to make mankind moral were through and through immoral.

Religions belong to the rabble; after coming into contact with religious people I always feel that I must wash my hands.

Thus spoke the devil to me once: 'God too has his hell: it is his love of man.'...And most recently I heard him speak this word: 'God is dead: God died of his pity for man.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn

The former morality, namely Kant's, demanded of the individual actions which one desired of all men: that was a very naive thing;

Thucydides and, maybe, Machiavelli's prince are most closely related to me by their unconditional will to fabricate nothing and to see reason in reality—not in "reason," and still less in "morality" . . .

there are no moral facts at all.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame, his own justice that is beyond appeal.

Truly, a filthy stream man is. One must be a sea, to receive a filthy stream without becoming impure.

One must be prepared to sacrifice all desirability to truth, every truth, even plain, harsh, ugly, repellent, unchristian, immoral truth.?For such truths do exist

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.