Loading...
Breadcrumb_light image

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

Related Quotes

Morality is of the highest importance-but for us, not for God.

His philosophy of Satyagraha is both a personal and a social struggle to realize the Truth, which he identifies as God, the Absolute Morality. He seeks this Truth, not in isolation, self-centeredly, but with the people.

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.