# The Conscientious in Spirit — Thus Spoke Zarathustra character guide

> The Conscientious in Spirit in Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0169-part-iv-lxxv-science

## Who they are

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

## In the story

### [LXIV: The Leech](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thus_spoke_zarathustra_se/chapters/part-iv-lxiv-the-leech)

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

### [LXXV: Science](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thus_spoke_zarathustra_se/chapters/part-iv-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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/thus_spoke_zarathustra_se/chapters/part-iv-lxxviii-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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