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At this point, I can no longer avoid setting out, in an initial, provisional statement, my own hypothesis about the origin of “bad conscience.” It is ...more

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My thoughts on the descent of our moral prejudices – for that is what this polemic is about – were first set out in a sketchy and provisional way in t...more

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Morality negates life.

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Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spi...more

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

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For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.

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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however lit...more

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Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the decisive sign of sovereignty a...more

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Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not to re...more

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Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of vir...more

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When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And r...more

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All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things.

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A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

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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.