 The mightiest men have hitherto always bowed reverently before the saint, as the enigma of self-subjugation and utter voluntary privation — why did they thus bow? They divined in him — and as it were behind the questionableness of his frail and wretched...  Tears and Saints - Page viiby E. M. Cioran - 1998 - 154 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Ethics - 1911 - 294 pages
...divined in him — and as it were behind the questionableness of his frail and wretched appearance — the superior force which wished to test itself by...subjugation ; the strength of will, in which they recognised their own strength and love of power, and knew how to honour it : they honoured something... | |
 | Lionel Spencer Thornton - Christian ethics - 1915 - 350 pages
...men have hitherto always bowed reverently before the saint as the enigma of self-subjugation. . . . They divined in him . . . the superior force which...strength and love of power, and knew how to honour it. ... It was the ' Will to Power' which obliged them to halt before the saint." 2 The ascetic principle... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Willard Huntington Wright - Philosophy - 1915 - 356 pages
...divined in him — and as it were behind the questionableness of his frail and wretched appearance — the superior force which wished to test itself by such a subjugation; the strength and love of power, and knew how to honour it: they honoured something in themselves when they honoured... | |
 | Maudemarie Clark - Philosophy - 1990 - 320 pages
...miserable appearance - they sensed the superior force that sought to test itself in such conquest, the strength of will in which they recognized their own strength and delight in dominion: they honored something in themselves when they honored the saint. Moreover, the... | |
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