values Quotes

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.