--Perhaps a more effectual warning against this compassion can be
given if this need of the unfortunate be considered not simply as
stupidity and intellectual weakness, not as a sort of distraction of the
spirit entailed by itself (and thus, indeed, does La
Rochefoucauld seem to view it) but as something quite different and more
momentous.
given if this need of the unfortunate be considered not simply as
stupidity and intellectual weakness, not as a sort of distraction of the
spirit entailed by itself (and thus, indeed, does La
Rochefoucauld seem to view it) but as something quite different and more
momentous.
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
