- Critique of Highest Values(Hitherto) - 286 Let one not be deceived about oneself ! If one hears ...

- Critique of Highest Values(Hitherto) -

286  Let one not be deceived about oneself ! If one hears within oneself the moral imperative as it is understood by altruism, one belongs to the herd. If one has the opposite feeling, if one feels one's danger and abberration lies in disinterested and selfless actions, one does not belong to the herd.

287  My philosophy aims at an ordering of rank: not at an individualistic morality.*60 The ideas of the herd should rule in the herd - but not reach out beyond it: the leaders of the herd require a fundamentally different valuation for their own actions, as do the independent, or the "beasts of prey," etc.

'3. General Remarks on Morality'

288  Morality as an attempt to establish human pride. - The theory of "free will" is anti-religious. It seeks to create the right for man to think of himself as cause of his exalted state and actions: it is a form of the growing feeling of pride. . .


- Critique of Highest Values - 

365  The actions of a higher man are indescribably complex in their motivation: any such word as "pity" says nothing whatever. The most essential thing is the feeling "Who am I ? who is the other in relation to me ?" - Value judgments are continually at work.

371  The "ego" - which is not one with the central government of our nature ! - is, indeed, only a conceptual synthesis - thus there are no actions prompted by "egoism."

- Assorted Opinions And Maxims -

1  To the disappointed of philosophy. - If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price ?

3.  The wooer of reality. - He who finally sees how long and how greatly he has been made a fool of embraces in defiance even the ugliest reality: so that, viewing the way of the world as a whole, the latter has at all times had the best of all wooers - for it is the best who have always been most thoroughly deceived. 

Philosophical Philologist Friedrich Nietzsche