Friedrich Nietzsche Moral Quotations

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.