Third Part · L. On the Olive-Mount

Lonesomeness: flight from the sick

To one man, lonesomeness is the flight of the sick one; to another, it is the flight FROM the sick ones.

Zarathustra lets the poor squinting knaves hear his chattering and lament that he will freeze at the ice of knowledge. Meanwhile he runs with warm feet on his olive-mount and sings, mocking all pity.

SolitudeDistinguishes the solitude of the sick from his own, a flight from the sick and their heated rooms.
PityHe ends by mocking all pity while singing in the sunny corner of his mountain.