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Full Idea
The value of life cannot be estimated.
Gist of Idea
The value of life cannot be estimated
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 1.02)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.30
A Reaction
Military leaders apparently judge that the death of one of their own soldiers is worth between 12 and 20 enemy deaths (so history suggests). How about ransom money?
20243 | Human beings are not majestic, either through divine origins, or through grand aims [Nietzsche] |
2893 | In every age the wisest people have judged life to be worthless [Nietzsche] |
18308 | A philosopher fails in wisdom if he thinks the value of life is a problem [Nietzsche] |
2894 | Value judgements about life can never be true [Nietzsche] |
2895 | The value of life cannot be estimated [Nietzsche] |
18322 | When we establish values, that is life itself establishing them, through us [Nietzsche] |
18321 | To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it [Nietzsche] |
23748 | The sacred in every human is their expectation of good rather than evil [Weil] |
20282 | The sanctity of a human life depends either on being of our species, or on being a person [Singer] |
4661 | What matters is not intrinsic value of life or rights, but worthwhile and desired life, and avoidance of pain [Glover] |