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Often appears with: justice as a virtue · courage and cowardice · virtue conflict · solitude · religious persecution and toleration · psychology of solitude · prudence and practical wisdom · persecution by moralizers · mountain climbing · madness before the deed · laughter at tragedy · judicial mercy
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“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 instructs judges and sacrificers to treat the pale criminal’s slaying as pity, separating thought, deed, and idea, and interpreting madness as preceding murderous desire rather than mere revenge.
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy. He whom the flame of jealousy encompasseth, turneth at last, like the scorpion, the poisoned sting against himself. Ah! my brother, hast thou never seen a virtue backbite and stab itself? Man is something that hath to be surpassed: and therefore shalt thou love thy virtues,—for thou wilt succumb by them.—…
He warns that solitude can exhaust pride and courage, that the lonesome one faces enemies within and must guard against false “good and just,” holy simplicity, and love’s assaults, even moving past “seven devils.”
thou give unto thyself thy bad and thy good, and set up thy will as a law over thee? Canst thou be judge for thyself, and avenger of thy law? Terrible is aloneness with the judge and avenger of one’s own law. Thus is a star projected into desert space, and into the icy breath of aloneness. To-day sufferest thou still from the multitude, thou individual; to-day hast thou still thy courage unabated, and thy hopes. B…
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…