Friedrich Nietzsche Guilt Quotations

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.