This sentence comes from the famous German philosopher friedrich nietzsche's classic book "The Other Side of Good and Evil", and there is another sentence: If you fight the dragon for too long, you will become a dragon yourself; If you stare at the abyss for too long, the abyss will stare back at you.
You know, human nature is complex, there is neither pure goodness nor pure evil. In many cases, the two are mutually transformed or coexist. A powerful enemy has been fighting for a long time, and it must be because of too much attention and understanding that he has become the same person as the other side; When you look at evil, evil also looks at your heart like a mirror.
The abyss is a hole formed by people who lack the pursuit of "higher value". The more people who don't pursue "higher value", the bigger the hole. In fact, the abyss has been staring at us, but we don't have the deep and keen insight of philosophers and can't see its existence.
Introduction of works
The other side of good and evil was written in the summer of 1885 and completed in the winter of the following year. There are two purposes in writing this book, one is to explain what Zarathustra said, and the other is to prepare for writing his greatest and most important book, Strong Will. In this book, Nietzsche tries to define the two relative words "good" and "evil" to distinguish immorality from immorality.
He noticed that people's efforts to make ancient moral standards consistent with the needs of modern people were contradictory, and he realized that people often made compromises between moral theory and social practice. His aim is to establish the relationship between morality and need, and to build an operable foundation for human behavior. Therefore, The Other Side of Good and Evil is one of Nietzsche's most important contributions to a new moral system, which touches many of the deepest principles in his philosophy.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-The Other Side of Good and Evil.