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24127 | Judging actions by intentions - like judging painters by their thoughts! [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: To judge people by intentions! That would be like classifying artists, not according to their paintings, but according to their visions! | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 25[119]) | |
A reaction: What is wrong is to judge an action by any simple single principle. Our nuanced attitude to excuses shows the true complexity of it. 'I didn't mean to do that'. |