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 »
Mothers often take children's negative feelings so personally that the moment they come back from work to a moody child, a whole c...hecklist appears before their eyes. "Was I rushed this morning? Did I forget to pack lunch right? Am I away too much?" This personalization of children's day to day moods (which I've found practically nonexistent in fathers) makes moms an easy target.... Within seconds, children pick up on your guilt and use it to gain special attention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin'd: Why am I forc'd, like Heav'n, against my mind,... To make Examples of another Kind? Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw? Oh curst Effects of necessary Law! How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Am I in love? ... If in love, where's the sweetheart? Is it the noble-hearted F___ or the giddy, young, black-eyed E___ who fills ...my thoughts? Do feeling and judgment go together? I feel the strong longing, but not the fixed attachment which belongs to the true love. The settled object is wanting. It is useless to attempt to cast myself free from the cords which a too warm imagination throws about me. The only cure is marriage. If that is not the specific I may as well despair of ever making even a respectable figure in life; ... I am almost wholly worthless.... With me too, believing as I do, or have, that it was a part of my patrimony to be gifted with more than the ordinary allotment of what is called "common sense." I must be in the chrysalis state, neither a boy nor a man; not in love and yet not whole of heart. Well I hope I shall be safely delivered soon, for if I am not, woe to the future!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outco...me, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All earthly things is but vanity: Beauty, Strength, and Discretion do man forsake,... Foolish friends and kinsmen, that fair spake-- All fleeth save Good Deeds, and that am I.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed... I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »