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In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in the chapter called The Bestowing Virtue, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote something surprising.
Zarathustra — a sage who is also the central character of the book — tells his followers to stop following him.
He says, "I now go alone, my disciples!
You too go now, alone!
Thus I want it.
I advise you: depart from me, and guard yourselves against Zarathustra!
And better still: be ashamed of him!
Perhaps he has deceived you." This is one of my favorite parts of the book.
I found it surprising, but interesting, that the sage would tell his followers to be ashamed of him, abandon him, and mistrust him.
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