FRIENDS, You’ve heard this joke making the rounds: “Look at Zarathustra! Walking around, among us as if among animals?” But said better: “The discerning one walks among men as among animals.” Man himself is to the discerning one: the animal with red cheeks. How has that happened to him? Isn’t it because he has…
Away from God and gods did this will allure me; what would there be to create if there were – gods! I read that one’s life amounts to a collection of stories. You and I existentially are a composition of everything that we believe about the world, believe about ourselves as a feature of…
But that I may reveal my heartentirely to you, my friends:if there were gods,how could I endure it to be no God! Therefore there are no gods.Yes, I have drawn the conclusion;now, however,does it draw me.–God is a conjecture: ~*~but who could drinkall the bitterness of this conjecturewithout dying?Shall his faith be takenfrom the…
Why did I startle in my dream, so that I awoke? That is the question isn’t it? Dreams and night visions are the stuff of literature. The story of Macbeth comes to mind. No one knows for sure from whence comes a dream. I remember talking about dreams with a therapist. She recognized dreams…
AFTER this Zarathustra returned again into the mountains to the solitude of his cave, and withdrew himself from men, waiting like a sower who has scattered his seed. His soul, however, became impatient and full of longing for those whom he loved: because he had still much to give them. For this is hardest…
When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he paused, like one who had not said his last word; and long did he balance the staff doubtfully in his hand. At last he said this – and his voice had changed: I now go alone, my disciples! You also must now go away alone! So will…
Remain true to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the earth! Thus do I pray and appeal to you. Let it not fly away from the earthly and beat against eternal walls with its wings! Ah,…
Thus goes the bodythrough history,a becomer and fighter. And the spirit — what is it to the body?Its fights’and victories’herald, its companionand echo. Nietzsche/Zarathustra refers time and time again to the wisdom of the body. The body is the conduit, our interface with external reality. An ongoing theme is emphasis on what the body…
Tell me… how is it that gold is attributed the highest value? Because it is uncommon, and nonfunctional, and beaming, and soft in lustre; it always bestows itself. Only as image of the highest virtue came gold to the highest value. Goldlike, beams the glance of the bestower. Gold-lustre makes peace between moon and…
Truly, he died too early that Hebrew whom the preachers of slow death honor: and to many has it proved a calamity that he died too early. This begins a breath taking assessment of the death of Jesus. Yes Jesus, the Palestinian carpenter condemned as an agitator by the occupying Romans when in his…
