Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Morality
  • Inside
  • Conduct

• Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Human
  • Act
  • Morality

• There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Poetry
  • Morality

• There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Real
  • End
  • Garden

• Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Soul
  • Practice
  • Philosophy

• Morality is contraband in war.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • War
  • Morality

• I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Real
  • Same

• One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Moral

• Modern morality is all about perception.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Perception
  • Modern
  • Morality

• Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Morality

• Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Morality

• The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Morality
  • Foundation
  • Most

• The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • True
  • Artist
  • Morality

• My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Write
  • Human Beings
  • Impulse

• Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

  

  Confucius
  • Words
  • Force
  • Knowing

• When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Europe
  • Phenomenon
  • Operas

• Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Past
  • Mean
  • Sometimes

• When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

  

  George Eliot
  • Imagine
  • Animals
  • Store

• Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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