PhilosophyQuotes for September 18, 2000:

"...affirmative acts and negative acts belong together. One is good on condition one also knows how to be evil; one is evil because otherwise one would not understand how to be good."

"This law of the dangerousness of impersonally understood, objective virtue applies also to modesty; many of the choicest spirits perish through it. The morality of modesty is the worst form of softening for those souls for which it makes sense that they should become hard in time."

"...we have no desire whatever to be better, we are very contented with ourselves, all we desire is not to harm one another."

"We new philosophers,...teach estrangement in every sense, we open up gulfs such as never existed before, we desire that man should become more evil than he has ever been before. In the meantime, we are still strangers to and from one another. We have many reasons to be hermits and to put on masks--we shall therefore be poor at looking for those like us."

-Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), The Will to Power

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