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The Genealogy, Zarathustra, and Beyond Good and Evil
Examine the key passages that contain Nietzsche's most important arguments, from the slave revolt in morality to Zarathustra's speeches.
“Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morality I:10: 'The slave revolt in morality begins when ressentiment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values: the ressentiment of natures that are denied the true reaction, that of deeds, and compensate themselves with an imaginary revenge. While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside", what is "different", what is "not itself".' [...] Zarathustra, Prologue: 'I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end... The Übermensch is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the Übermensch shall be the meaning of the earth!' [...] The Gay Science, s. 341: 'What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more"... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: "You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine"?' — SEP 'Friedrich Nietzsche'; SEP 'Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy'; IEP 'Nietzsche's Ethics'”