Quotes About Ethics

A nation goes to pieces when it confounds its duty with the general concept of duty. Nothing works a more complete and penetrating disaster than every impersonal duty, every sacrifice before the Moloch of abstraction.

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

when an exceptional person treats a mediocre one more delicately than he treats himself and his equals, this is not just courtesy of the heart—it is his duty

Man is beast and superbeast; the higher man is inhuman and superhuman: these belong together. With every increase of greatness and height in man, there is also an increase in depth and terribleness: one ought not to desire the one without the other— or rather: the more radically one desires the one, the more radically one achieves precisely the other.

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.

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.

Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possède une vertu, alors qu'on ne la possède pas. Certes, une pareille illusion est plus dangereuse que l'illusion contraire qui consiste à croire que l'on souffre d'un défaut, d'un vice. Deuxième Considération intempestive, ch. 6

Revaluation of all values!

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

I do not refute ideals, I just out on gloves when I deal with them...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man's complete lack of responsibility, for his behavior and for his nature, is the bitterest drop which the man of knowledge must swallow.

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

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

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.

Semua perempuan yang baik menemukan bahwa ilmu pengetahuan adalah bertentangan dengan kesopanan mereka. Ia membuat mereka merasa seakanakan ada orang yang ingin melihat dibalik kulit mereka--atau yang lebih parah! Dibalik pakaian dan kosmetik mereka...

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.

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

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