Thus Spoke Zarathustra · Character

The Conscientious in Spirit

A scientific thinker who values truth above all, even painfully.

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The Conscientious in Spirit shows up with force in LXIV: The Leech. The page is where that presence becomes real.

The trodden one who dedicates himself to rigorous study of the leech's brain, embodying intellectual honesty and severity.

The Conscientious in Spirit first appears in 0169 part iv lxxv science.

In LXIV: The Leech: The trodden one who dedicates himself to rigorous study of the leech's brain, embodying intellectual honesty and severity.

Later, in LXXV: Science: Resists the magician's spell, denounces him as a seducer, and argues that fear is the root of science and virtue.

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LXIV: The Leech
The trodden one who dedicates himself to rigorous study of the leech's brain, embodying intellectual honesty and severity.
LXXV: Science
Resists the magician's spell, denounces him as a seducer, and argues that fear is the root of science and virtue.
The Ass-Festival
Finds the spectacle agreeable to his conscience, suggesting that God seems most worthy of belief in the form of an ass, and that the wise may become infatuated with stupidity.

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