Linked from Essay I, Section 13: "When the oppressed, downtrodden, outraged exhort one another with the vengeful cunning of impotence...." |
'Enemy,' you shall say, but not 'villain'; 'sick' you shall say, but not 'scoundrel'; 'fool' you shall say, but not 'sinner.'" From "On the Pale Criminal," Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Trans. Walter Kaufmann. New York: Penguin, 1978: 38. Reader's Notes
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For the ascetic life is a self-contradiction: here rules a ressentiment without equal, that of an insatiable instinct and power-will that wants to become master not over something in life but over life itself" From Essay III, Section 11, p. 118 "The sick are man's greatest danger; not the evil, not the 'beasts of prey.'" From Essay III, Section 14, p. 122. Reader's Questions
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