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47: The Meaning of Life

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Morality Is Self Overcoming

Zarathustra: Commanding is harder than obeying, because he who commands must carry the burden of all who obey. Even when it commands self, it must still pay for its commanding - so remember, morality is self overcoming. The idea that it's always better to be commander, too, is short sighted. Most people throughout time live their life in accord with the inherited conventional pattern. As nature says, these are dangerous experiments. And most people throughout history do not do this experiment.

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