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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Drive Toward Knowledge Has A Moral

Friedrich Nietzsche
The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
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"judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. there is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. to abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. the moral principle to adopt... is: "judge, and be prepared to be judged."
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In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. however, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. it is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equality, freedom, human rights, and so forth, which are all of religious origin. certainly, everybody has the right to live as he thinks best, including the right not to be consistent with his own pattern. still, to understand the world correctly, it is important to know the true origin of meaning and of the ideas ruling the world.
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We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... the exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... it is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.
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I will not stop. i will not slow down. i will not pull over to ask for directions. i will build the road that takes me where i want to be and i will drive, drive, drive. i will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then i will walk.
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