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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral syste...more

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Fear is the mother of morality.

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Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.

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And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? W...more

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

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Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

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[Anything which] is a living thing and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become p...more

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There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is d...more

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Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseu...more

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I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

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hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and ...more

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Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life – and being successful.