The Genealogy of Morals

My thoughts concerning the genealogy of our moral prejudices-for they constitute the issue in this polemic- have their first, bald, and provisional expression in that collection of aphorisms entitled Human, all-too-Human, a Book for Free Minds, the writing of which was begun in Sorrento, during a winter which allowed me to gaze over the broad and dangerous territory through which my mind had up to that time wandered.