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

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~












People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called moralit...
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"Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.
"Fear is the mother of morality.
"Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth....
"Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.
"And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? W...
"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
"All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.
"Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
"Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned o...
"Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental fee...
"Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?
"There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
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