Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.
ATTRIBUTION:
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 3, pp. 197-198, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Dawn, “Fourth Book,” aphorism 230, “’Utilitarian’,” (1881).
