July 2, 2012
All questions of strength: how far to assert oneself against the conditions for the preservation of society and its prejudices? - how far to let loose one's terrible qualities, which cause the downfall of most? - how far to approach truth and contemplate its most dubious aspects? - how far to go forward to meet suffering, self-contempt, pity, sickness, vice, with the question mark over whether one will master them?...(what does not kill us makes us stronger...) - finally: how far to make concessions in one's own mind to the ordinary, the mean, the petty, good, decent, the average nature, without being vulgarised by them?...The hardest test of character: not to let oneself be ruined through seduction by the good. The good as luxury, over-refinement, as vice...
Nietzsche - Notes from the Late Notebooks
Posted by amin at July 2, 2012 12:08 PM