The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2011-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

Nietzsche wants the eternity of this life with all its agonies —and seeing that it flees, its eternal recurrence. As it is expressed in sections 9, 10, and 11, the conception of the eternal recurrence is certainly meaningful; but its formulation as a doctrine depended on Nietzsche’s mistaken belief that science compels us to accept the hypothesis of the eternal recurrence of the same events at gigantic intervals. (See “On the Vision and the Riddle” and “The Convalescent,” both in Part Three, and, for a detailed discussion, my Nietzsche, 11, II.)

20. The Sign: In “The Welcome,” Zarathustra repudiated the “higher men” in favor of “laughing lions.” Now a lion turns up and laughs, literally. And in place of the single dove in the New Testament, traditionally understood as a symbol of the Holy Ghost, we are presented with a whole flock. Both the lion and the doves were mentioned before (“On Old and New Tablets,” section 1) as the signs for which Zarathustra must wait, and now afford Nietzsche an opportunity to preserve his curious blend of myth, irony, and hymn to the very end.

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