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Nietzsche wrote of humility (not to speak of patience, wisdom, and any other virtue lauded widely by the [[masses]]) as a weakness, a false virtue which concealed the frailties and hidden crookedness in its holder. His idealized ubermensch would be more apt to roam around unfettered by pretensions of humility, proud of his stature and power, but not reveling idly in it, and certainly not displaying [[hubris]].
Nietzsche wrote of humility (not to speak of patience, wisdom, and any other virtue lauded widely by the [[masses]]) as a weakness, a false virtue which concealed the frailties and hidden crookedness in its holder. His idealized ubermensch would be more apt to roam around unfettered by pretensions of humility, proud of his stature and power, but not reveling idly in it, and certainly not displaying [[hubris]].
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"[[Happy]] are the poor in [[spirit]]--the '''humble'''."--To a child, [[happiness]] is the satisfaction of immediate [[pleasure]] craving. The adult is willing to sow seeds of self-denial in order to reap subsequent harvests of augmented happiness. In [[Jesus]]' times and since, happiness has all too often been associated with the [[idea]] of the possession of [[wealth]]. In the story of the Pharisee and the publican praying in the temple, the one felt rich in spirit--egotistical; the other felt "poor in spirit"--[http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/LongContents_4.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/LongContents_4.html&line=906#mfs]
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