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72 was good
74’One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme action to vanity, academe ones to habit and petty ones to fear.
Really liked 77 ‘Transfering honour from the person to the thing’ abt how sacrifice doesn’t make the thing great.

awful. awful.
He’s saying things and categorising them into black and white when that has no basis except his own feelings. Everyone is guilty of it. but goddamm he just can’t recover from what christianity did to him

did an oopsy

58’One may promise actions, but no senti-ments, for these are involuntary. Whoever promises to love or hate a person, or be faithful to him for ever, promises something which is not within his power;

patika ari 59 un 60

57’Is it not clear that in all 4 cases the individual loves something of himself, a thought, a desire, a production, better than anything else of himself, that he therefore divides his nature and to 1 part sacrifices all the rest?
just bc he acknowledges that there are grey values not just black n white, doesn’t mean that he actually believes in that. izskatas ka vins nespej izbegt no kristietibas kategorizacijas

56’We recognise, then, that there exist no sins in the metaphysical sense; but, in the same sense, also no virtues; we recognise that the entire domain of ethical ideas is perpetually tottering, that there are higher and deeper conceptions of good and evil, of moral and immoral.

Viņš vēljoprojām pārāk godā un idealize zinatnes viru, iekritot lidzigos pitfalls kaa kristietiba ko vins noniecina

51’He who always wears the mask of a friendly expression must eventually obtain a power over well-meaning dispositions without which the expression of friendliness is not to be compelled - and finally, these, again, obtain a power over him, he is well-meaning. (to some extent)
53’One of the commonest mistakes is this: because some one is truthful and honest towards us, he must speak the truth.

42’The hierarchy of possessions, however, is not fixed and equal at all times; if any one prefers vengeance to justice he is moral according to the standard of an earlier civilisation, but immoral according to the present one.
50’Prosper Mérimée:”Also know that there is nothing more common than doing evil for the pleasure of doing it.”

32 Finally, the standard by which we measure, our nature, is not of unalterable dimensions - we have moods and vacillations, and yet we should have to recognise ourselves as a fixed standard in order to estimate correctly the relation of any thing whatever to ourselves. .. it is one of the greatest and most inexplicable discords of existence.

-and therefore he no longer plants those trees which require regular care for centuries, and which are destined to afford shade to a long series of generations.
28 it is quite clear that the world is not good and not bad, and that the terms good and bad have only significance with respect to man[..]
31 secinajums: tiecies pēc loģikas bet pieņem neloģisko un haotisko (?)