Thus Spake Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche · רישיון: Public domain · מקור

• Now do I await MY redemption--that I may go unto them for the last time. ¶2478
• For once more will I go unto men: AMONGST them will my sun set; in dying will I give them my choicest gift! ¶2479
• From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches,-- ¶2480
• --So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with GOLDEN oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it.-- ¶2481
• Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables--half-written. ¶2482
• Behold, here is a new table; but where are my brethren who will carry it with me to the valley and into hearts of flesh?-- ¶2484
• Thus demandeth my great love to the remotest ones: BE NOT CONSIDERATE OF THY NEIGHBOUR! Man is something that must be surpassed. ¶2485
• There are many divers ways and modes of surpassing: see THOU thereto! But only a buffoon thinketh: "man can also be OVERLEAPT." ¶2486
• Surpass thyself even in thy neighbour: and a right which thou canst seize upon, shalt thou not allow to be given thee! ¶2487
• What thou doest can no one do to thee again. Lo, there is no requital. ¶2488
• He who cannot command himself shall obey. And many a one CAN command himself, but still sorely lacketh self-obedience! ¶2489
• Thus wisheth the type of noble souls: they desire to have nothing GRATUITOUSLY, least of all, life. ¶2491
• He who is of the populace wisheth to live gratuitously; we others, however, to whom life hath given itself--we are ever considering WHAT we can best give IN RETURN! ¶2492
• And verily, it is a noble dictum which saith: "What life promiseth US, that promise will WE keep--to life!" ¶2493
• One should not wish to enjoy where one doth not contribute to the enjoyment. And one should not WISH to enjoy! ¶2494
• For enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things. Neither like to be sought for. One should HAVE them,--but one should rather SEEK for guilt and pain!-- ¶2495
• O my brethren, he who is a firstling is ever sacrificed. Now, however, are we firstlings! ¶2497
• We all bleed on secret sacrificial altars, we all burn and broil in honour of ancient idols. ¶2498
• Our best is still young: this exciteth old palates. Our flesh is tender, our skin is only lambs' skin:--how could we not excite old idol-priests! ¶2499
• IN OURSELVES dwelleth he still, the old idol-priest, who broileth our best for his banquet. Ah, my brethren, how could firstlings fail to be sacrifices! ¶2500
• But so wisheth our type; and I love those who do not wish to preserve themselves, the down-going ones do I love with mine entire love: for they go beyond.-- ¶2501
• To be true--that CAN few be! And he who can, will not! Least of all, however, can the good be true. ¶2503
• Oh, those good ones! GOOD MEN NEVER SPEAK THE TRUTH. For the spirit, thus to be good, is a malady. ¶2504
• They yield, those good ones, they submit themselves; their heart repeateth, their soul obeyeth: HE, however, who obeyeth, DOTH NOT LISTEN TO HIMSELF! ¶2505
• All that is called evil by the good, must come together in order that one truth may be born. O my brethren, are ye also evil enough for THIS truth? ¶2506
• The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick--how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however--is truth produced! ¶2507
• BESIDE the bad conscience hath hitherto grown all KNOWLEDGE! Break up, break up, ye discerning ones, the old tables! ¶2508
• When the water hath planks, when gangways and railings o'erspan the stream, verily, he is not believed who then saith: "All is in flux." ¶2510
• But even the simpletons contradict him. "What?" say the simpletons, "all in flux? Planks and railings are still OVER the stream! ¶2511
• "OVER the stream all is stable, all the values of things, the bridges and bearings, all 'good' and 'evil': these are all STABLE!"-- ¶2512
• Cometh, however, the hard winter, the stream-tamer, then learn even the wittiest distrust, and verily, not only the simpletons then say: "Should not everything--STAND STILL?" ¶2513
• "Fundamentally standeth everything still"--that is an appropriate winter doctrine, good cheer for an unproductive period, a great comfort for winter-sleepers and fireside-loungers. ¶2514
• "Fundamentally standeth everything still"--: but CONTRARY thereto, preacheth the thawing wind! ¶2515
• The thawing wind, a bullock, which is no ploughing bullock--a furious bullock, a destroyer, which with angry horns breaketh the ice! The ice however--BREAKETH GANGWAYS! ¶2516
• O my brethren, is not everything AT PRESENT IN FLUX? Have not all railings and gangways fallen into the water? Who would still HOLD ON to "good" and "evil"? ¶2517
• "Woe to us! Hail to us! The thawing wind bloweth!"--Thus preach, my brethren, through all the streets! ¶2518
• There is an old illusion--it is called good and evil. Around soothsayers and astrologers hath hitherto revolved the orbit of this illusion. ¶2520
• Once did one BELIEVE in soothsayers and astrologers; and THEREFORE did one believe, "Everything is fate: thou shalt, for thou must!" ¶2521
• Then again did one distrust all soothsayers and astrologers; and THEREFORE did one believe, "Everything is freedom: thou canst, for thou willest!" ¶2522
• O my brethren, concerning the stars and the future there hath hitherto been only illusion, and not knowledge; and THEREFORE concerning good and evil there hath hitherto been only illusion and not knowledge! ¶2523

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