...University Press, 1985), chap. 5. But it is Nietzsche himself who speaks of 'redemption' in these terms: "To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus' — that alone do I call redemption", Thus Spake Zarathustra (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961),...

...modification. Otherwise the will, impotent regarding the past, will be wrathful and full of vengeance. "To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an T wanted it thus!' — that alone do I call redemption!" Zarathustra proclaims (Z 161-62). True love...

..."the will," and of redemption of the past by way of will, before an audience of cripples and beggars: To redeem the past and to transform every "It was"...wanted it thus!"—that alone do I call redemption! Will—that is the great liberator and bringer of joy: thus I have taught you, my friends! But now...

...they feel most impotent in the face of, and which they can only rage in anger and frustration against: the past. To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I willed it thus!' - that alone do I call redemption! Will - that is what the liberator and bringer of...

...and that this destruction is by design. Zarathustra's definition of personal salvation shows as much. "To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus!' — that alone would I call redemption." The free spirits are perpetually caught up in this...

...blessing: but thus I willed it, I would have it thus! So Nietzsche reflects, repeating Zarathustra, "To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus!' that alone would I call redemption."123 What is required for this salvific transfiguration of...

...Nietzsche's grand politics. This implies that the will can learn to will backwards as a retroactive power. 'To redeem the past and to transform every "It was" into an "I wanted it thus!" - that alone do I call redemption! ... All "It was" is a fragment, a riddle, a dreadful chance...

...stagnation and regression. The words of Nietzsche's Zarathustra echoes the desire to be saved from time: "To redeem the past and to transform every 'it was' into an 'I wanted it thus! ' 15 Hsiin Tzu: Basic Writings, 100. — that alone do I call redemption!"17 How is one able...

...one's prison, and he is just right. Reality must be accepted and endured, but why must it be loved? "To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus!' — that alone would be redemption," says Nietzsche. Nietzsche has turned traitor against himself,...

...chance . . . To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus!' - that alone do I call redemption! . . . Willing liberates:...is what the will's teeth-gnashing and most lonely melancholy is called. Powerless against that which has been done, the will is an angry spectator of...