"Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
About this Quote
In this quote, Friedrich Nietzsche is specifying that judgments and value judgments concerning life are not genuinely accurate. Rather, they can just function as indicators or symptoms of our own beliefs and predispositions. He asserts that such judgments have significance just as they expose our personal views and convictions; otherwise, they are worthless.
"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage"