(Originally written August 18, 2007 in Notebook 18)
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
227
Honesty will be a virtue of the free spirits, but not to the point that it becomes vanity, finery, pomp or stupidity.
"Every virtue inclines toward stupidity; every stupidity, toward virtue" (Nietzsche, 346).
228
We must not allow thinking about morality to become dangerous and exciting. We must continue to let it be boring.
229
Cruelty is what drives culture. The high culture is merely refined and spiritualized cruelty.
There is too much enjoyment in one's own suffering.
Whenever one is lured into any self-denial, contrition, de-sensualization, de-carnalization or shift, one is motivated by one's cruelty against himself.
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