Friedrich Nietzsche Moral Quotations

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

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

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.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.