Ulterior

Famous quotes containing the word ulterior:

“On the threshold of any wholly new and momentous devoted enterprise, the thousand ulterior intricacies and emperilings to which it must conduct; these, at the outset, are mostly withheld from sight.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“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)

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