Cracking the Moral Code, La Volonté de puissance, Livre III, Nietzsche, 479

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Cracking the Moral Code

Friedrich Nietzsche

La Volonté de puissance

II

Livre III:

Le nihilisme vaincu par lui-même

3. L'innocence du Devenir

(The Innocence of Becoming)

479

Our passions are a coded language that expresses our organic functioning. Our morals, then, are a code for our passions. Hence our morality at heart is an expression of our body's operation.

Les morales, langage chiffré des passions ! Mais les passions elles-mêmes, langage chiffré des fonctions organiques.

A. 1883 (XIII, § 362).

Nietzsche, Friedrich. La Volonté de puissance, II. Transl. G. Bianquis. Paris: Gallimard, 1938.