Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
V: Concerning the Slander of the so-called Evil Qualities§366 To think that the history of all moral phenomena may be simplified, as Schopenhauer thought — that is to say that pity is to be found at the root of every moral impulse that has ever existed hitherto, is to be guilty of a degree of nonsense and naiveté worthy only of a thinker who is devoid of all historical instincts and who has miraculously succeeded in evading the strong schooling in history which the Germans, from Herder to Hegel, have undergone.