I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.