Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
Concluding remarks concerning the criticism of morality§404 Morality may be regarded as the illusion of a species, fostered with the view of urging the individual to sacrifice himself to the future and seemingly granting him such a very great value, that with that self-consciousness he may tyrannise over and constrain other sides of his nature and find it difficult to be pleased with himself.
We ought to be most profoundly thankful for what morality has done hitherto: but now it is no more than a burden which may prove fatal. Morality itself, in the form of honesty, urges us to deny morality.