"Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine."
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"The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!"
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"Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods)."
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"Morality in Europe today is herd-morality"
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"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
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"Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery."
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"Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet."
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"Rough Johnson, the great moralist."
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"Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that."
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"What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess."
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"Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you."
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"The morality of compromise sounds contradictory."
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"Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience."
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"Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?"
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"Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful."
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"They judge lest they be judged."
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"Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid."
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"We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality."
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"Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty."
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"Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!"
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