Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the earth! Thus do I pray and conjure you.
In a changed voice, Zarathustra begs his disciples to devote their love and knowledge to the meaning of the earth.
- Fidelity to the earth and the bodyThe famous charge to stay faithful to the earth.
What the critics said
Ludovici says that the Nietzschean ideal is the man of overflowing strength who must discharge it or perish, so that giving from overflow is the only charity Nietzsche recognises, and that the discourse urges disciples to become independent thinkers and find themselves before learning more from Zarathustra.