“Thou goest to women? Do not forget thy whip!”—
The old woman's little truth is a warning to bring a whip.
- Love, chastity, woman and marriageThe famous closing line on man and woman.
“Thou goest to women? Do not forget thy whip!”—
The old woman's little truth is a warning to bring a whip.
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.
Do you accept the challenge?
What the critics said
Ludovici argues that hostility to Nietzsche's views on women is a misunderstanding: his doctrine is that the sexes are fundamentally antagonistic and should be kept so, against the democratic levelling that would masculinise women and feminise men, a view Ludovici judges right and just; he adds that the discourse's notorious last line was suggested by a woman.