Here we are told quite plainly what class of men actually owe all their impulses and desires to the instinct of self-preservation. The struggle for existence is indeed the only spur in the case of such people. To them it matters not in what shape or condition man be preserved, provided only he survive. The transcendental maxim that "Life per se is precious" is the ruling maxim here.

Place: Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1. · ¶3977
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Here we are told quite plainly what class of men actually owe all thei… — Thus Spake Zarathustra