Facta Ficta

vitam impendere vero

Nietzsche thinking

[MA-WS-45]

THE MORALITY OF PITY IN THE MOUTHS OF THE INTEMPERATE

All those who are not sufficiently masters of themselves and do not know morality as a self-control and self-conquest continuously exercised in things great and small, unconsciously come to glorify the good, compassionate, benevolent impulses of that instinctive morality which has no head, but seems merely to consist of a heart and helpful hands. It is to their interest even to cast suspicion upon a morality of reason and to set up the other as the sole morality.