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Single Idea 20259
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / h. Respect
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Full Idea
The surest way to ruin a youth is by teaching him to respect those who think like him more highly than those who think differently.
Gist of Idea
Teach youth to respect people who differ with them, not people who agree with them
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 297)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Dawn (Daybreak) (v 5)', ed/tr. Smith, Brittain [Stanford 2011], p.187
A Reaction
On the whole I prefer to read the philosophers who seem to be on my side, because I am trying to strengthen my explanation of the world, and opponents aren't much help. I do read opponents, if they explicitly challenge what I defend.
The
48 ideas
from 'Dawn (Daybreak)'
20230
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The very idea of a critique of morality is regarded as immoral!
[Nietzsche]
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20229
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No authority ever willingly accepts criticism
[Nietzsche]
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20380
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Why should truth be omnipotent? It is enough that it is very powerful
[Nietzsche]
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20231
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People used to think that outcomes were from God, rather than consequences of acts
[Nietzsche]
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20232
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Get rid of the idea of punishment! It is a noxious weed!
[Nietzsche]
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20233
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Punishment has distorted the pure innocence of the contingency of outcomes
[Nietzsche]
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20234
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Morality prevents us from developing better customs
[Nietzsche]
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20235
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Like animals, we seek truth because we want safety
[Nietzsche]
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20236
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Marriage upholds the idea that love, though a passion, can endure
[Nietzsche]
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20237
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Moral feelings are entirely different from the moral concepts used to judge actions
[Nietzsche]
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20238
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Treating morality as feelings is just obeying your ancestors
[Nietzsche]
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20240
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The Jews treated great anger as holy, and were in awe of those who expressed it
[Nietzsche]
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20241
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Enquirers think finding our origin is salvation, but it turns out to be dull
[Nietzsche]
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20242
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Things are the boundaries of humanity, so all things must be known, for self-knowledge
[Nietzsche]
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20243
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Human beings are not majestic, either through divine origins, or through grand aims
[Nietzsche]
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20244
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Christianity replaces rational philosophical virtues with great passions focused on God
[Nietzsche]
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20245
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Christianity hoped for a short cut to perfection, that skipped the hard labour of morality
[Nietzsche]
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20246
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If you feel to others as they feel to themselves, you must hate a self-hater
[Nietzsche]
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20247
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Christianity was successful because of its heathen rituals
[Nietzsche]
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20248
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People do nothing for their real ego, but only for a phantom ego created by other people
[Nietzsche]
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20249
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Our knowledge of the many drives that constitute us is hopelessly incomplete
[Nietzsche]
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20250
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We may be unable to remember, but we may never actually forget
[Nietzsche]
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20251
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Actions done for a purpose are least understood, because we complacently think it's obvious
[Nietzsche]
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20252
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Marriage is too serious to be permitted for people in love!
[Nietzsche]
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20253
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Modern wars arise from the study of history
[Nietzsche]
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20254
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People govern for the pleasure of it, or just to avoid being governed
[Nietzsche]
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20255
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Early 19th century German philosophers enjoyed concepts, rather than scientific explanations
[Nietzsche]
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20256
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What we think is totally dictated by the language available to express it
[Nietzsche]
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20257
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Cool courage and feverish bravery have one name, but are two very different virtues
[Nietzsche]
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20258
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Most people treat knowledge as a private possession
[Nietzsche]
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20259
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Teach youth to respect people who differ with them, not people who agree with them
[Nietzsche]
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20260
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Carlyle spent his life vainly trying to make reason appear romantic
[Nietzsche]
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20261
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History does not concern what really happened, but supposed events, which have all the influence
[Nietzsche]
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20262
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Don't use wisdom in order to become clever!
[Nietzsche]
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20263
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Fear reveals the natures of other people much more clearly than love does
[Nietzsche]
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20264
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The easy and graceful aspects of a person are called 'soul', and inner awkwardness is called 'soulless'
[Nietzsche]
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20265
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The desire for a complete system requires making the weak parts look equal to the rest
[Nietzsche]
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20266
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It is essential that wise people learn to express their wisdom, possibly even as foolishness
[Nietzsche]
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20267
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Seeing duty as a burden makes it a bit cruel, and it can thus never become a habit
[Nietzsche]
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20268
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Most dying people have probably lost more important things than what they are about to lose
[Nietzsche]
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20269
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'I believe because it is absurd' - but how about 'I believe because I am absurd'
[Nietzsche]
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20270
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There is no one scientific method; we must try many approaches, and many emotions
[Nietzsche]
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20271
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Beauty in art is the imitation of happiness
[Nietzsche]
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20272
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Honesty is a new young virtue, and we can promote it, or not
[Nietzsche]
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20273
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The French Revolution gave trusting Europe the false delusion of instant recovery
[Nietzsche]
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20274
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The cardinal virtues want us to be honest, brave, magnanimous and polite
[Nietzsche]
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20275
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Most people think they are already complete, but we can cultivate ourselves
[Nietzsche]
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20131
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We can cultivate our drives, of anger, pity, curiosity, vanity, like a gardener, with good or bad taste
[Nietzsche]
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