zarathustra-kingdom

Updated: May 9, 2025

For one day must it yet come, and may not pass by. What must one day come and may not pass by? Our great Hazar, that is to say, our great, remote human-kingdom, the Zarathustra-kingdom of a thousand years How remote may such "remoteness" be? What doth it concern me? But on that account it is none the less sure unto me , with both feet stand I secure on this ground;

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra : A book for all and none

Nietzsche earnestly believed that the Zarathustra-kingdom his dynasty of a thousand years would one day come; if he had not believed it so earnestly, if every artist in fact had not believed so earnestly in his Hazar, whether of ten, fifteen, a hundred, or a thousand years, we should have lost all our higher men; they would have become pessimists, suicides, or merchants.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra : A book for all and none