HKB
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Often appears with: the passions and the emotions · temperance and self-mastery · spirit of gravity · rejection of universal goodness · learning self-love · justice as a virtue · critique of moral categories · anti-waiting ideology
Usually: speech or oration (1) · censure (1) · exhortation (1)
“One must learn to love oneself—thus do I teach—with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None · precept
Zarathustra proclaims the “spirit of gravity” as heavy inherited values and “good and evil,” argues for learning self-love, and rejects universal goodness, whitewashed souls, and passive waiting.
he who will never defend himself, he who swalloweth down poisonous spittle and bad looks, the all-too-patient one, the all-endurer, the all-satisfied one: for that is the mode of slaves. Whether they be servile before Gods and divine spurnings, or before men and stupid human opinions: at ALL kinds of slaves doth it spit, this blessed selfishness! Bad: thus doth it call all that is spirit-broken, and sordidly-servil…