Faith in the Earth
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"Faith in the Earth" is a concept referred to in the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's mytho-poetic formulation of divinity, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.[1] A complicated idea with many connotations within its central work, it is the process through which Nietzsche formalizes his idea of amor fati, and most broadly refers to treating the worldly with the same degree of spiritual worship and respect previously given to the divine. It is a related concept to the central idea of Eternal Recurrence that forms the main focus of the work.
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- ^ "... remain true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of superterrestrial hopes! [bleibt der Erde treu und glaubt Denen nicht, welche euch von überirdischen Hoffnungen reden!]"—Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part I, 1961, p. 42; English translations: Thomas Common in Levy edition, 1905; Tille & Bozman Everyman, 1933; Walter Kaufmann, Viking, 1954; Reg Hollingdale, Penguin, 1961; Graham Parkes, Oxford, 2005; Pippin & DelCaro, Cambridge, 2006
