“ No people could live without first valuing; if a people will maintain itself, however, it must not value as its neighbour valueth. ”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891). copy citation
Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Source | Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
Topic | value neighbour |
Date | 1891 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated By Thomas Common |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm |
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“XV. THE THOUSAND AND ONE GOALS.
Many lands saw Zarathustra, and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and bad of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and bad.
No people could live without first valuing; if a people will maintain itself, however, it must not value as its neighbour valueth.
Much that passed for good with one people was regarded with scorn and contempt by another: thus I found it. Much found I here called bad, which was there decked with purple honours.
Never did the one neighbour understand the other:”
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