Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian).… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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