Quote of the Day

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man.