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Often appears with: solitude · self-overcoming · prudence and practical wisdom · mountain climbing · justice as a virtue · exaltation and perspective · courage and cowardice
Usually: narrative (1) · the stranger's arrival (1) · detachment (1) · wonder (1)
“He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None · precept
Zarathustra quotes that those who climb highest mountains laugh at tragic plays and realities, and then shifts into his mountaineering journey and last wandering.
“Who among you can at the same time laugh and be exalted? “He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.”—ZARATHUSTRA, I., “Reading and Writing.” XLV. THE WANDERER. Then, when it was about midnight, Zarathustra went his way over the ridge of the isle, that he might arrive early in the morning at the other coast; because there he meant to embark. For there was a good r…