Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
Fear is the mother of morals.[Die Furcht ist auch hier wieder die Mutter der Moral.]
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
Compassion is the ultimate source of morality.[Die Grundlage der Moral im Mitleid nachzuweisen.]
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
And life, in spite of ourselves, is not devised by morality.[Genug, ich lebe noch; und das Leben ist nun einmal nicht von der Moral ausgedacht.]
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.[Toutes les morales sont fondées sur l’idée qu’un acte a des conséquences qui le légitiment ou l’oblitèrent. Un esprit pénétré d’absurde juge seulement que ces suites doivent être considérées avec sérénité.]
All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature.
All good enterprises which are not grafted on to a morally good attitude of mind are nothing but illusion and outwardly glittering misery.[Alles Gute aber, das nicht auf moralisch-gute Gesinnung gepfropft ist, ist nichts als lauter Schein und schimmerndes Elend.]
