>>5901958>BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL>the value of the "good", versus the merely commonI longed with all my soul to be good, but I was young; I had passions and I was alone, completely alone in my search for goodness. Every time I tried to express my innermost desires—a wish to be morally good—I met with contempt and scorn, and as soon as I gave in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, lust for power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, revenge, were all respected qualities. As I yielded to these passions I became like my elders and I felt that they were pleased with me.
Leo Tolstoy, A Confession (1882)
As a VAMPIRE SORCEROR economics taught me that the meaning of a good is purely that of a commodity. I really wanted to try and find a quotation from Horace
>>5897255on goodness, I read a few of the satires but do not remember them well, they can be rambling at times. I suppose you get Nietzsche of Beyond Good And Evil (not the pic related space monkey Ubisoft videogame lol) instead:
(...) One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbour takes it into his mouth. And how could there be a "common good"! The expression contradicts itself; that which can be common is always of small value. In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined...
