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Morality Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
- Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions…
- An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
- Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
- Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
- Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread,…
- The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
- The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality:…
- The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
- It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
- Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to…
- In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future…
- I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best…
- All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very…
- All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
- For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and…
- This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
- Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for…
- Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty,…
- In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
- The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
- When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means…
- Morality in Europe today is herd-morality
- Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative…
- It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint…
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- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Morality is a private and costly luxury. — Henry Adams
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams