I started reading Tim Keller’s Counterfeit Gods this week, and came across this intriguing little gem of a quote. Definitely thought it was worth sharing, especially when you find out who said it:
What induces one man to use false weights, another to set his house on fire after having insured it for more than its value, while three-fourths of our upper classes indulge in legalized fraud. . . what gives rise to all this? It is not real want–for their existence is by no means precarious. . . but they are urged on day and night by a terrible impatience at seeing their wealth pile up so slowly, and by an equally terrible longing and love for these heaps of gold. . . . What once was done “for the love of God” is now done for the love of money, i.e., for the love of that which at present affords us the highest feeling of power and a good conscience.
–Friedrich Nietzsche in The Dawn of Day
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