[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on The Rope.

Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post "The Rope":

I would recommend The Gay Science if you're only going to read one. Nietzsche is a quote machine. If you're going to read more than one, maybe Twilight of the Gods, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Human All to Human.

This is a classic,

"That lambs dislike great birds of prey does not seem strange, only it gives no ground for reproaching these birds of prey for bearing off little lambs. And if the lambs say among themselves: "these birds of prey are evil, and whoever is least like a bird of prey, but rather its opposite, a lamb—would he not be good?" There is no reason to find fault with this institution of an ideal, except perhaps that the birds of prey might view it a little ironically and say: "we don't dislike them at all, these good little lambs; we even love them: nothing is more tasty than a tender lamb." Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals



Posted by Matthew LaPine to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 3:31 PM