Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity,...
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity,...
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity,...
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity,...
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"A characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse," is a good way of putting it. Many people today have a hard time resisting stimuli. A stimulus is something that makes people do things they normally would not do. The stimuli they have a hard time resisting are often negative.

In this quote, the author compares people who have a hard time resisting negative stimuli with people who have a spiritual nature. People who have a spiritual nature are able to resist negative stimuli better than those without one.

Source: The Antichrist/Ecce Homo/Twilight Of The Idols/Other Writings

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