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Second Part · XL. Great Events

The greatest events are the stillest hours

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And believe me, friend Hullabaloo! The greatest events—are not our noisiest, but our stillest hours.

Zarathustra says the world revolves inaudibly around the inventors of new values.

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What the critics said

The fire-dog as the spirit of revolutionAnthony M. Ludovici · Notes on Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1909interpretation

Ludovici argues that Zarathustra's interview with the fire-dog, easily dismissed as fantasy, is important because it confronts the spirit of revolution that Nietzsche most loathed, and shows that for him the world turns inaudibly around inventors of new values, not of new noise.