Thus Spake Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spake Zarathustra

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• In this parable the young shepherd is obviously the man of to-day; the snake that chokes him represents the stultifying and paralysing social values that threaten to shatter humanity, and the advice "Bite! Bite!" is but Nietzsche's exasperated cry to mankind to alter their values before it is too late. Chapter XLVI. The Vision and the Enigma.
• This, like "The Wanderer", is one of the many introspective passages in the work, and is full of innuendos and hints as to the Nietzschean outlook on life. Chapter XLVII. Involuntary Bliss. · ¶390
• In the last verse Nietzsche challenges us to show that our way is the right way. In his teaching he does not coerce us, nor does he overpersuade; he simply says: "I am a law only for mine own, I am not a law for all. This--is now MY way,--where is yours?" Chapter LV. The Spirit of Gravity. · ¶39
• Here we have a description of the kind of altruism Nietzsche exacted from higher men. It is really a comment upon "The Bestowing Virtue" (see Note on Chapter XXII.). Chapter LVI. Old and New Tables. Par. 2.
• This refers, of course, to the reception pioneers of Nietzsche's stamp meet with at the hands of their contemporaries. Chapter LVI. Old and New Tables. Par. 2.
• This is complementary to the first three verses of par. 2. Chapter LVI. Old and New Tables. Par. 2.
• The last two verses of par. 12 were discussed in the Notes on Chapters XXXVI. and LIII. Chapter LVI. Old and New Tables. Par. 2.
• This, like the first part of "The Soothsayer", is obviously a reference to the Schopenhauerian Pessimism. Chapter LVI. Old and New Tables. Par. 2.
• These are supplementary to the discourse "Backworld's-men". Chapter LVI. Old and New Tables. Par. 2.
• This is a final paean which Zarathustra sings to Eternity and the marriage-ring of rings, the ring of the Eternal Recurrence. Chapter LX. The Seven Seals. · ¶3953
• "Ye higher men, think ye that I am here to put right what ye have put wrong? Or that I wished henceforth to make snugger couches for you sufferers? Or show you restless, miswandering, misclimbing ones new and easier footpaths?" Chapter LXXI. The Greeting. · ¶3972
• "Nay! Nay! Three times nay! Always more, always better ones of your type shall succumb--for ye shall always have it worse and harder." Chapter LXXI. The Greeting. · ¶3973
• Nietzsche admits, here, that at one time he had thought of appealing to the people, to the crowd in the market-place, but that he had ultimately to abandon the task. He bids higher men depart from the market-place. Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1.
• In the Note on Chapter LVII. (end) I speak of Nietzsche's elevation of the virtue, Courage, to the highest place among the virtues. Here he tells higher men the class of courage he expects from them. Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1.
• These have already been referred to in the Notes on Chapters LVII. (end) and LXXI. Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1.
• I suggest that the last verse in this paragraph strongly confirms the view that Nietzsche's teaching was always meant by him to be esoteric and for higher man alone. Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1.
• When we approach Nietzsche's philosophy we must be prepared to be independent thinkers; in fact, the greatest virtue of his works is perhaps the subtlety with which they impose the obligation upon one of thinking alone, of scoring off one's own bat, and of shifting intellectually for oneself. Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1.
• "I am a railing alongside the torrent; whoever is able to grasp me, may grasp me! Your crutch, however, I am not." These two paragraphs are an exhortation to higher men to become independent. Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1.
• Here Nietzsche perhaps exaggerates the importance of heredity. As, however, the question is by no means one on which we are all agreed, what he says is not without value. Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1.
• "What hath hitherto been the greatest sin here on earth? Was it not the word of him who said: 'Woe unto them that laugh now!' Did he himself find no cause for laughter on the earth? Then he sought badly. A child even findeth cause for it." Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1.
• After his address to the higher men, Zarathustra goes out into the open to recover himself. Meanwhile the magician (Wagner), seizing the opportunity in order to draw them all into his net once more, sings the Song of Melancholy. Chapter LXXIV. The Song of Melancholy. ·
• He tells them not to forget that night and the ass-festival, for "such things only the convalescent devise! And should ye celebrate it again," he concludes, "do it from love to yourselves, do it also from love to me! And in remembrance of ME!" Chapter LXXVIII. The Ass-Festival. · ¶40
• The above I know to be open to much criticism. I shall be grateful to all those who will be kind enough to show me where and how I have gone wrong; but I should like to point out that, as they stand, I have not given to these Notes by any means their final form. Chapter LXXX. The Sign. · ¶4006

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