The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values–something whose like has never been seen on earth

Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the book, “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald writes, “The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values…something whose like has never been seen on earth.” In this quote, he gives a passing mention of a guy named Buddha. Buddha was a religious guy who lived several hundred years ago in India. Buddha did a lot of thinking and felt a lot of rage.

He actually had some interesting ideas about hate that are very different from most people’s ideas of hate. For example, he didn’t think that you should hate someone because they were harming you or your family. In fact, he was the first person to say that hating people because of what they do to you is not right.

He also said that hating people because they are part of your group is not right either. His idea was that you should hate people for their own sake because they are evil and immoral. This kind of hatred can really make the world better if everyone followed it!

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