"Reason is an exception in me, too," said Zarathustra: "Chaos and necessity and spinning stars--that is also the rule in the wises...t world."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have not been asked, as I should have been asked, what the name of Zarathustra means in my mouth, the mouth of the first immoral...ist: for what constitutes the tremendous historical uniqueness of that Persian is just the opposite of this. Zarathustra was the first to consider the struggle between good and evil as the very wheel in the machinery of things: a translation of morals into the metaphysical, as force, cause, and end-in-itself, is his work. But this question itself is at bottom its own answer. Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality: as a result, he must also be the first to recognize it. Not only has he more experience in this matter, for a longer time, than any other thinker--all history is after all the refutation by experiment of the principle of this so-called "moral world order"Mwhat is more important is that Zarathustra is more truthful than any other thinker. His doctrine, and his alone, posits truthfulness as the supreme virtue--this means exactly the opposite of the cowardice of the "idealist" who flees from reality; Zarathustra has more intestinal fortitude than all other thinkers put together. To speak the truth and to shoot well with arrows, that is Persian virtue.--Am I understood?--The self- overcoming of morality, out of truthfulness, the self-overcoming of the moralist, into his opposite--into me--that is what the name of Zarathustra means in my mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goet...h down, and hasteth to the place where he arose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A clerk ther was of Oxenford also That unto logyk hadde longe ygo.... As leene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good man was ther of religioun, And was a poure persoun of a toun,... But riche he was of hooly thoght and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche. His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was also a Nonne, a prioresse, That of hir smylyng was ful symple and coy;... Hire gretteste ooth was but by Seint Loy. And she was cleped madame Eglentyne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »