"Their usual mistaken premise is that they..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.
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“No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.”
“What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.”
“One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.”
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“Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.”