"One thing seems clear to me, that a morality which produces guilt and self-torture, which results in anxiety and agony, which shortens life spans, cannot be the answer."
- MARAUDERS OF GOR, Pg. 7
"Guilt is almost unknown in Gorean morality, though shame and anger are not."
- MARAUDERS OF GOR, Pg. 8
[250] "Guilt - Although the most acute judges of the witches, and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was nonexistant. It is thus with all guilt."
From - The Gay Science
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"They punish you for all your virtues. They forgive you entirely - your mistakes.
Because you are gentle and just in disposition you say, 'They are guiltless in their small existence.' But their petty souls think, 'Guilt is every great existence.'"
On the Flies of the Market Place
From - Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Part I
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Man is the cruelest animal against himself; and whenever he calls himself 'sinner' and 'cross-bearer' and 'penitent,' do not fail to hear the voluptuous delight that is in all such lamentation and accusation."
The Convalescent - Part II
From - Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Part III
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Bad Conscience" - Nietzsche often refers to "guilt" and "sin" as associated concepts of "bad conscience."
"I regard bad conscience as the serious illness which man was bound to contract under the stress of the most fundamental chance he had ever experienced - that chance which occured when he found himself finally enclosed within the walls of society and of peace.... All instincts which do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inwards -- this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his 'soul.' The inner world.... acquired depth, breadth, height, in the same measure as outward discharge was hindered. These fearful bulwarks with which the social organization protected itself against the old instincts of freedom.... brought it about that all those instincts of wild, free, prowling man turned backwards against man himself. Enmity, cruelty, joy in persecuting, in attacking, in change, in destruction -- all this turned against the possessors of such instincts: that is the origin of the 'bad conscience.'"
"Guilt," "Bad Conscience" and the Like
From - Genealogy of Morals - Part II
- Friedrich Nietzsche
David B. Allison has done a lengthy examination of this particular subject, and Genealogy of Morals itself, in his "Reading the New Nietzsche."
