Ulterior

Famous quotes containing the word ulterior:

“Morality—the idiosyncrasy of decadents, with the ulterior motive of revenging themselves on life—successfully.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Nor will this overwhelming tendency to do wrong for wrong’s sake, admit of analysis, or resolution into ulterior elements. It is a radical, a primitive impulse—elementary.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)