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Second Part · XXXV. The Sublime Ones

Beauty as power grown gracious

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When power becometh gracious and descendeth into the visible—I call such condescension, beauty.

Beauty is hardest for the hero, and Zarathustra defines it as power descending into the visible. He asks the powerful one to make goodness his last self-conquest.

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The sublime ones stuck at the camel stageAnthony M. Ludovici · Notes on Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1909interpretation

Ludovici says the sublime ones are a type Nietzsche did not wholly dislike but who take life too seriously and never surmount the camel stage; real greatness is to speak of lofty things without being oppressed by them, and Nietzsche breaks old things not with the anarchist's irreverence but with the fingers of an artist at ease with beauty, guided by his own taste.