Why?
Because others can’t.
What makes one heroic? - Going against both one’s highest sorrow and one’s highest hope.
What do you believe? - In this: that the values of all things must be valued anew.
What does your conscience say? - ‘You should become the one you are.’
Where lie your greatest dangers? - In pity.
What do you love in others? - My hopes.
Whom do you call bad? - Those, who always wish to ashame.
What is the most humane? - Sparing someone’s shame.
What is the seal of reached freedom? - To not be ashamed in front of oneself anymore.
What do you believe? - In this: that the values of all things must be valued anew.
What does your conscience say? - ‘You should become the one you are.’
Where lie your greatest dangers? - In pity.
What do you love in others? - My hopes.
Whom do you call bad? - Those, who always wish to ashame.
What is the most humane? - Sparing someone’s shame.
What is the seal of reached freedom? - To not be ashamed in front of oneself anymore.
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| — | Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science. |
