Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament |
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality. |
Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer. |
Modest people have often reason to be. |
Morality in Europe today is herd-morality |
Morality is primarily a means of preserving the community and saving it from destruction. Next it is a means of maintaining the community on a certain plane and in a certain degree of benevolence. |
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose |
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. |
Morals, however, remain invaluable: they reveal, at least for those who know, the most valuable realities of cultures which did not know enough to "understand" themselves. At all times they have wanted to "improve" men: this above all was called morality. |
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk. |
Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover. |
Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts. |
My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously. |
Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. |
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. |