Friedrich Nietzsche on Ethics
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, catalogued under Ethics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, entry #198565: "Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred."
Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, entry #110095: "Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality."
6 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche on Ethics
"Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred."
"Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality."
"When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed."
"Morality is herd instinct in the individual."
"When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates."
"There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" ."