“ What good is my happiness! It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency. But my happiness should justify existence itself! ”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891). copy citation
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
|---|---|
| Source | Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
| Topic | poverty happiness |
| Date | 1891 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated By Thomas Common |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm |
Context
“What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
The hour when ye say: What good is my happiness! 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.” source
The hour when ye say: What good is my happiness! 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.” source
