Daily Archives: Sunday, May 17, 2015 @ 10:13

There is nothing grown-up about behavior that is dictated by religious authority. Susan Neiman, Why Grow Up? Just so. To transform oneself into a dumb obedient farm animal is not a moral triumph, but a surrender to decadence.

Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoIV: How Virtue Is Made to Dominate §307   He who knows the way fame originates will be suspicious even of the fame virtue enjoys.