“ Morality as attitude—is opposed to our taste nowadays. ”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886). copy citation
Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Source | Beyond Good and Evil |
Topic | morality attitude |
Date | 1886 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Helen Zimmern |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4363/4363-h/4363-h.htm |
Context
“indeed, at times the higher and sublimer thing takes place:—we learn to DESPISE when we love, and precisely when we love best; all of it, however, unconsciously, without noise, without ostentation, with the shame and secrecy of goodness, which forbids the utterance of the pompous word and the formula of virtue. Morality as attitude—is opposed to our taste nowadays. This is ALSO an advance, as it was an advance in our fathers that religion as an attitude finally became opposed to their taste, including the enmity and Voltairean bitterness against religion (and all that formerly belonged to freethinker-pantomime)”
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