To recognize untruth as a condition of life – that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? … that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking in the power to accomplish its purpose; if with the greatest effort it should yet achieve nothing, and only the good will should remain (not, to be sure, as a mere wish but as the summoning of all the means in our power), yet would it, like a jewel, still shine by its own light as something which has its full value in itself.
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, – and if there were, it would be of no value.
It is comic that a mentally disordered man picks up any piece of granite and carries it around because he thinks it is money, and in the same way it is comic that Don Juan has 1,003 mistresses, for the number simply indicates that they have no value. Therefore, one should stay within one’s means in the use of the word “love”.