'Just as 'evil' can be considered as exaggeration, disharmony, disproportion, 'the good' may be a protective diet against the danger of exaggeration, disharmony, and disproportion. Hereditary weakness as the dominant feeling: cause of the supreme values. One wants weakness: why? Usually because one is necessarily weak. - Weakness as a task: weakening the desires, the - feelings of pleasure and displeasure, the will to power, to a sense of pride, to want to have and have more; weakening as meekness; weakening as faith; weakening as aversion and shame in the face of everything natural, as negation of life, as sickness and habitual weakness - - weakening as the renunciation of revenge, of resistance, or enmity and wrath. The error in treatment: one does not want to fight weakness with a system fortifiant [fortified system], but rather with a kind of justification and moralization; i.e., with an interpretation. - - Two totally different states confounded: e.g., the calm of strength, which is essentially forbearance from reaction (type of the gods whom nothing moves) - and the calm of exhaustion, rigidity to the point of anesthesia. All philosophic-ascetic procedures aim at the second, but really intend the former - for they attribute predicates to the attained state as if a divine state had been attained.'
Vicious Circle // Klossowski [per Nietzsche]
