Quotes About Values

What does nihilism mean? That the highest values devaluate themselves. The aim is lacking; 'why?' finds no answer.

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

The lie of the ideal has till now been the curse on reality; on its account humanity itself has become fake and false right down to its deepest instincts - to the point of worshipping values opposite to the only ones which would guarantee it a flourishing, a future, the exaled right to a future.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.

Our most sacred convictions, those which are permanent in us concerning the highest values, are judgments emanating from our muscles.

Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.

The slave revolt in morality begins when 'ressentiment' itself becomes creative and gives birth to values: the ressentiment of natures that are denied the true reaction, that of deeds, and compensate themselves with an imaginary revenge. While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is outside, what is different, what is not itself; and this No is its creative deed.

When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.

He who cannot find the way to HIS ideal, lives more frivolously and shamelessly than the man without an ideal.

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...

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Revaluation of all values!

But I suffer and have suffered with them: prisoners are they unto me, and stigmatised ones. He whom they call Saviour put them in fetters:— In fetters of false values and fatuous words! Oh, that some one would save them from their Saviour!

The human being first put values into things, in order to preserve itself—it created a meaning for things, a human's meaning! Therefore it calls itself 'human'—that is: the evaluator.

In disrespecting, we show that we still mantain a sense of respect.

The ascetic ideal has an aim - this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should, measured by its standard, appear petty and narrow; it explains epochs, nations, men, in reference to this one end; it forbids any other interpretation, any other end; it

Preaching morals is as easy as giving reasons for morals is difficult

Our thoughts, values, every yes, no, if and but grow from us with the same inevitability as fruits borne on the tree?all related and each with an affinity to each, and evidence of one will, one health, one soil,one sun.

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

The creator seeks companions, not corpses or herds or believers. The creator seeks fellow-creators, those who inscribe new values on new tables. The

there are no moral facts at all.

Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses — and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh — those who grave new values on new tables.

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.