“ What good is my virtue! As yet it hath not made me passionate. How weary I am of my good and my bad! It is all poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency! ”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891). copy citation
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
|---|---|
| Source | Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
| Topic | poverty pollution |
| Date | 1891 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated By Thomas Common |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm |
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“It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency. But my happiness should justify existence itself! ” “ What good is my reason! Doth it long for knowledge as the lion for his food? It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency! ” What good is my virtue! As yet it hath not made me passionate. How weary I am of my good and my bad! It is all poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency! “ What good is my justice! I do not see that I am fervour and fuel. The just, however, are fervour and fuel! ” “ What good is my pity! Is not pity the cross on which he is nailed who loveth man? But my pity is not a crucifixion. ””
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