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

Chapter LXII. The Cry of Distress.

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We now meet with Zarathustra in extraordinary circumstances. He is confronted with Schopenhauer and tempted by the old Soothsayer to commit the sin of pity. “I have come that I may seduce thee to thy last sin!” says the Soothsayer to Zarathustra. It will be remembered that in Schopenhauer’s ethics, pity is elevated to the highest place among the virtues, and very consistently too, seeing that the Weltanschauung is a pessimistic one. Schopenhauer appeals to Nietzsche’s deepest and strongest sentiment—his sympathy for higher men. “Why dost thou conceal thyself?” he cries. “It is THE HIGHER MAN that calleth for thee!” Zarathustra is almost overcome by the Soothsayer’s pleading, as he had been once already in the past, but he resists him step by step. At length he can withstand him no longer, and, on the plea that the higher man is on his ground and therefore under his protection, Zarathustra departs in search of him, leaving Schopenhauer—a higher man in Nietzsche’s opinion—in the cave as a guest.

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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