Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
III: General Remarks on Morality§293 The concept “reprehensible action” presents us with some difficulties. Nothing in all that happens can be reprehensible in itself: one would not dare to eliminate it completely for everything is so bound up with everything else, that to exclude one part would mean to exclude the whole. A reprehensible action, therefore, would mean a reprehensible world —
And even then, in a reprehensible world even reprehending would be reprehensible –. And the consequence of an attitude of mind that condemns everything, would be the affirmation of everything in practice -—. If Becoming is a great ring, everything that forms a part of it is of equal value, is eternal and necessary. In all correlations of Yes and No, of preference and rejection, love and hate, all that is expressed is a certain point of view, peculiar to the interests of a certain type of living organism: everything that lives says Yes by the very fact of its existence.