| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 41643 |
| QUOTATION: | 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). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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