Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Ethics

• Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Forgiveness, Powerful

  1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).

• Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Individuality, Individual Morality

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 116

• Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tyrants, Noses, Ethics

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• Discontent is the seed of ethics.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Philosophy, History

• An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Important, Ethics, Morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.61, Courier Corporation

• Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Ethics, Morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.62, Courier Corporation

• The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  May, Pieces, Ethics

• Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taken, Animal, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.37, 谷月社

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