Humanity and the human earth remain unexhausted: there are ‘a thousand paths,’ ‘a thousand healths,’ and hidden islands of life yet to be discovered.
By Friedrich Nietzsche, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Key Arguments
- He asserts multiplicity of untrodden paths and forms of health, rejecting singular norms of life.
- Declares the human and the human earth unexhausted and undiscovered, inviting exploration and plural creation.
Source Quotes
May this be his best remedy, that he might see with his own eyes one who makes himself whole. ‘A thousand paths there are that have never yet been trodden; a thousand healths and hidden islands of life. Unexhausted and undiscovered are the human and human earth even now.
‘A thousand paths there are that have never yet been trodden; a thousand healths and hidden islands of life. Unexhausted and undiscovered are the human and human earth even now. ‘Wake up and listen, you who are lonely!
Key Concepts
- A thousand paths there are that have never yet been trodden; a thousand healths and hidden islands of life.
- Unexhausted and undiscovered are the human and human earth even now.
Context
Expansion of the creative horizon: pluralistic futurity of values, practices, and ways of flourishing.
Perspectives
- Nietzsche
- Pluralism of health and experiments in living; counters universalist morality with many normative trajectories.
- Zarathustra
- Encourages exploratory creators to seek new modes of health and life on earth.