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Full Idea
The feeling of value is always antiquated, it expresses a much earlier era's conditions for survival and growth.
Gist of Idea
Our values express an earlier era's conditions for survival and growth
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 10[23])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.181
A Reaction
Nice. I myself grew up in the aftermath of the Second World War. Have I ingested values that were created for that era, and are no longer required?
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