Once the soul looked contemptuously on the body, and then that contemp… — Thus Spake Zarathustra

Thus Spake Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche

Once the soul looked contemptuously on the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing:--the soul wished the body meagre, ghastly, and famished. Thus it thought to escape from the body and the earth.

Place: ¶191
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