Quotes About Ethics

Cinismul este singura form? prin care sufletele obiÅŸnuite acced la ceea ce se numeÅŸte onestitate; iar omul superior, aflându-se în prezenta cinismului, fie el mai grosolan sau mai rafinat, trebuie s?-ÅŸi ciuleasc? urechile ÅŸi s? se felicite de fiece dat? când chiar în faÅ£a lui prinde glas bufonul cel neruÅŸinat sau satirul ÅŸtiinÅ£ific.

The Good Person of today is incapable of approaching anything except in a dishonest way–but with innocence, a true blue-eyed virtuously mendacious way. These Good People are ruined: they cannot stand a single truth about Man.

This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

apa yang dilakukan demi cinta, selalu terjadi diluar kebaikan dan kejahatan

Men were considered free only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness.

Thus says the fool: Association with men spoils the character, especially when one has none.

We deny God; in denying God, we deny accountability: only by doing that do we redeem the world. –

The history of moral feelings is the history of an error, an error called "responsibility", which in turn rests on an error called "freedom of the will".

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.

And others are proud of their modicum of righteousness, and for the sake of it do violence to all things: so that the world is drowned in their unrighteousness.

In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to WHO HE IS,—that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other.

unrighteousness. Ah! how ineptly cometh the word virtue out of their mouth! And when they say: I am just, it always soundeth like: I am just—revenged!

dalam keramahan tidak ada kebencian terhadap manusia--inilah mengapa begitu banyak hal yang menjijikkan

A nihilist is a man who judges that the real world ought not to be, and that the world as it ought to be does not exist. According to this view, our existence (action, suffering, willing, feeling) has no meaning: this 'in vain' is the nihilists' pathos—an inconsistency on the part of the nihilists.

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.

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

Our duties - are the rights of others over us.

nothing stands so much in the way of the production and propagation of the great philosopher by nature as does the bad philosopher who works for the state.

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

AÅŸa gr?ieÅŸte bufonul: «RelaÅ£ia cu oamenii corupe caracterul ÅŸi mai cu seam? când acesta îÅ£i lipseÅŸte.»

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