“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Not contentment, but more power, not peace at all, but war; not virtue, but proficiency. The weak and poorly formed shall perish: first principle of our philanthropy. And one shall help them to do so. What is more harmful than any vice? Active sympathy for poorly formed and the weak— Christianity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
Samuel Johnson
Nietzche is greatly underestimated and, based on the little German I speak, he is often badly translated; deliberately I suspect. His views of Western thinking are scathing!