‘That is wrong’

From Nietzsche’s Late Notebooks: “A new way of thinking — which is always a new way of measuring and pre-supposes the availability of a new yardstick, a new scale of feelings — feels itself to contradict all other ways of thinking and, resisting them, continually says ‘That is wrong’. Looked at more subtly, such a ‘That is wrong’ really only means ‘I feel nothing of myself in it’, ‘I don’t care about it’, ‘I don’t understand how you can fail to feel with me’.”

 

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