Single Idea 14843

[catalogued under 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship]

Full Idea

Women can very well enter into a friendship with a man, but to maintain it - a little physical antipathy must help out.

Gist of Idea

Women can be friends with men, but only some physical antipathy will maintain it

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 390)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.196