Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Chapter XLIV. The Stillest Hour.

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This seems to me to give an account of the great struggle which must have taken place in Nietzscheâ€™s soul before he finally resolved to make known the more esoteric portions of his teaching. Our deepest feelings crave silence. There is a certain self-respect in the serious man which makes him hold his profoundest feelings sacred. Before they are uttered they are full of the modesty of a virgin, and often the oldest sage will blush like a girl when this virginity is violated by an indiscretion which forces him to reveal his deepest thoughts. ...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 2. INTRODUCTION BY MRS FORSTER-NIETZSCHE. 3. INTRODUCTION BY MRS FORSTER-NIETZSCHE. 4. Chapter LVII.). For the present let it suffice for us to know that he 5. PART I. THE PROLOGUE. 6. Chapter I. The Three Metamorphoses. 7. Chapter II. The Academic Chairs of Virtue. 8. Chapter IV. The Despisers of the Body. 9. Chapter IX. The Preachers of Death. 10. Chapter XV. The Thousand and One Goals. 11. Chapter XVIII. Old and Young Women. 12. Chapter XXI. Voluntary Death. 13. Chapter XXII. The Bestowing Virtue. 14. Chapter XXIII. The Child with the Mirror. 15. introduction to “The Genealogy of Morals” (written in 1887) he finds it 16. Chapter XXIV. In the Happy Isles. 17. Chapter XXIX. The Tarantulas. 18. Chapter XXX. The Famous Wise Ones. 19. Chapter XXXIII. The Grave-Song. 20. Chapter XXXIV. Self-Surpassing. 21. Chapter XXXV. The Sublime Ones. 22. Chapter XXXVI. The Land of Culture. 23. Chapter XXXVII. Immaculate Perception. 24. Chapter XXXVIII. Scholars. 25. Chapter XXXIX. Poets. 26. Chapter XL. Great Events. 27. Chapter XLI. The Soothsayer. 28. Chapter XLII. Redemption. 29. Chapter XLIII. Manly Prudence. 30. Chapter XLIV. The Stillest Hour. 31. PART III. 32. Chapter XLVI. The Vision and the Enigma. 33. Chapter XLVII. Involuntary Bliss. 34. Chapter XLVIII. Before Sunrise. 35. Chapter XLIX. The Bedwarfing Virtue. 36. Chapter LI. On Passing-by. 37. Chapter LII. The Apostates. 38. Chapter LIII. The Return Home. 39. Chapter LIV. The Three Evil Things. 40. Chapter LV. The Spirit of Gravity. 41. Chapter LVI. Old and New Tables. Par. 2. 42. Chapter LVII. The Convalescent. 43. Chapter LX. The Seven Seals. 44. PART IV. 45. Chapter LXI. The Honey Sacrifice. 46. Chapter LXII. The Cry of Distress. 47. Chapter LXIII. Talk with the Kings. 48. Chapter LXIV. The Leech. 49. Chapter LXV. The Magician. 50. Chapter LXVI. Out of Service. 51. Chapter LXVII. The Ugliest Man. 52. Chapter LXVIII. The Voluntary Beggar. 53. Chapter LXIX. The Shadow. 54. Chapter LXX. Noontide. 55. Chapter LXXI. The Greeting. 56. Chapter LXXII. The Supper. 57. Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1. 58. Chapter LXXIV. The Song of Melancholy. 59. Chapter LXXV. Science. 60. Chapter LXXVI. Among the Daughters of the Desert. 61. Chapter LXXVII. The Awakening. 62. Chapter LXXVIII. The Ass-Festival. 63. Chapter LXXIX. The Drunken Song. 64. Chapter LXXX. The Sign.

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