Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• 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
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• Morality is contraband in war.

  

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

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• 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
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• Modern morality is all about perception.

  

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

  

  Samuel Butler
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• 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
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• 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.

  

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• 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
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• 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
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• I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

  

  Andrew Solomon
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• There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

  

  William Jones
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• If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

  

  John Ruskin
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• I believe in analysis and not forecasting.

  

  Nicolas Darvas

• Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Morality
  • Sensibilities
  • Perposes