Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly thingswhen wilt thou drink this strange soulWhen, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?

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Friedrich Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Soul — The inner self, consciousness, and spiritual essence

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