"Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
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“Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.”
“The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.”
“Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.”
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“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.”
“I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.”
“The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.”
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“A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous.”
“One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”