doctrine To redeem what is past and transform every 'It was' into 'Thus I willed it'; the will's ill-will against time is the root of revenge.
Because, FOR MAN TO BE REDEEMED FROM REVENGE—that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms.
Man's redemption from revenge is what Zarathustra holds up against the tarantulas.
Read in the book →To redeem what is past, and to transform every “It was” into “Thus would I have it!”—that only do I call redemption!
The book's key formulation of redemption as turning every 'It was' into 'Thus would I have it'.
Read in the book →Away from those fabulous songs did I lead you when I taught you: “The Will is a creator.” All “It was” is a fragment, a riddle, a fearful chance—until the creating Will saith thereto: “But thus would I have it.”— Until…
He asks who has taught the will to will backwards.
Read in the book →There was it also where I picked up from the path the word “Superman,” and that man is something that must be surpassed. —That man is a bridge and not a goal—rejoicing over his noontides and evenings, as advances to new…
To redeem the past is to transform every 'It was' until the Will says 'But so did I will it!'
Read in the book →The past of man to redeem, and every “It was” to transform, until the Will saith: “But so did I will it! So shall I will it—”
This is the formula of redemption: the will turns the past into something it willed.
Read in the book →It is my sympathy with all the past that I see it is abandoned,— —Abandoned to the favour, the spirit and the madness of every generation that cometh, and reinterpreteth all that hath been as its bridge! A great…
By making amends to their children for being their fathers' children, they redeem all the past.
Read in the book →Brandes paraphrases maxims of Zarathustra's new tables: spare not thy neighbour, there is no requital, beware of the good who never speak the truth, a new nobility that loves its children's land and so redeems the past, trial marriages, push what is falling, reserve oneself for worthier foes, and the creators are hard.
Love of the children's land makes amends for being one's fathers' children and redeems all the past.
Ludovici explains that the great men in 'Redemption' are inverse cripples with one faculty overdeveloped, and that Nietzsche's redemption is the ability to say of all that is past 'Thus would I have it'; the inability to say it is the source of revenge and of punishment, its euphemism, while the man grateful even for his enemies and calamities knows neither revenge nor despair.
Defines redemption as affirming the whole past, even one's worst calamities.
This is an experiment in interactive reading, and in using AI to help you grow. Thus Spake Zarathustra is notoriously difficult for a modern reader; yet taken as a set of mental exercises, it is guaranteed to transform your thinking by the time you reach the end. Along the way you will have help from the companion, who is always beside the book.
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Nietzsche elsewhere
Nietzsche says that only Dionysus suffers as in the Night-Song, whose answer would be Ariadne, and that Zarathustra's life-task, which is also his own, is a yea-saying that justifies and redeems all that is past, quoting the passage on recasting fragments and turning every 'it was' into 'thus would I have it'.
Identifies the redemption of the past as Zarathustra's and Nietzsche's own life-task.
Nietzsche says that Zarathustra's life-task is a yea-saying that goes as far as justifying and redeeming all that is past.
Crisp formula joining affirmation and redemption of the past.