Thus Spake Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spake Zarathustra

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• "Thou shalt not rob! Thou shalt not slay!"--such precepts were once called holy; before them did one bow the knee and the head, and take off one's shoes. ¶2525
• But I ask you: Where have there ever been better robbers and slayers in the world than such holy precepts? ¶2526
• Is there not even in all life--robbing and slaying? And for such precepts to be called holy, was not TRUTH itself thereby--slain? ¶2527
• --Or was it a sermon of death that called holy what contradicted and dissuaded from life?--O my brethren, break up, break up for me the old tables! ¶2528
• It is my sympathy with all the past that I see it is abandoned,-- ¶2530
• --Abandoned to the favour, the spirit and the madness of every generation that cometh, and reinterpreteth all that hath been as its bridge! ¶2531
• A great potentate might arise, an artful prodigy, who with approval and disapproval could strain and constrain all the past, until it became for him a bridge, a harbinger, a herald, and a cock-crowing. ¶2532
• This however is the other danger, and mine other sympathy:--he who is of the populace, his thoughts go back to his grandfather,--with his grandfather, however, doth time cease. ¶2533
• Thus is all the past abandoned: for it might some day happen for the populace to become master, and drown all time in shallow waters. ¶2534
• Therefore, O my brethren, a NEW NOBILITY is needed, which shall be the adversary of all populace and potentate rule, and shall inscribe anew the word "noble" on new tables. ¶2535
• For many noble ones are needed, and many kinds of noble ones, FOR A NEW NOBILITY! Or, as I once said in parable: "That is just divinity, that there are Gods, but no God!" ¶2536
• O my brethren, I consecrate you and point you to a new nobility: ye shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future;-- ¶2538
• --Verily, not to a nobility which ye could purchase like traders with traders' gold; for little worth is all that hath its price. ¶2539
• Let it not be your honour henceforth whence ye come, but whither ye go! Your Will and your feet which seek to surpass you--let these be your new honour! ¶2540
• Verily, not that ye have served a prince--of what account are princes now!--nor that ye have become a bulwark to that which standeth, that it may stand more firmly. ¶2541
• Not that your family have become courtly at courts, and that ye have learned--gay-coloured, like the flamingo--to stand long hours in shallow pools: ¶2542
• (For ABILITY-to-stand is a merit in courtiers; and all courtiers believe that unto blessedness after death pertaineth--PERMISSION-to-sit!) ¶2543
• Nor even that a Spirit called Holy, led your forefathers into promised lands, which I do not praise: for where the worst of all trees grew--the cross,--in that land there is nothing to praise!-- ¶2544
• --And verily, wherever this "Holy Spirit" led its knights, always in such campaigns did--goats and geese, and wryheads and guyheads run FOREMOST!-- ¶2545
• O my brethren, not backward shall your nobility gaze, but OUTWARD! Exiles shall ye be from all fatherlands and forefather-lands! ¶2546
• Your CHILDREN'S LAND shall ye love: let this love be your new nobility,--the undiscovered in the remotest seas! For it do I bid your sails search and search! ¶2547
• Unto your children shall ye MAKE AMENDS for being the children of your fathers: all the past shall ye THUS redeem! This new table do I place over you! ¶2548
• "Why should one live? All is vain! To live--that is to thrash straw; to live--that is to burn oneself and yet not get warm."-- ¶2550
• Such ancient babbling still passeth for "wisdom"; because it is old, however, and smelleth mustily, THEREFORE is it the more honoured. Even mould ennobleth.-- ¶2551
• Children might thus speak: they SHUN the fire because it hath burnt them! There is much childishness in the old books of wisdom. ¶2552
• And he who ever "thrasheth straw," why should he be allowed to rail at thrashing! Such a fool one would have to muzzle! ¶2553
• Such persons sit down to the table and bring nothing with them, not even good hunger:--and then do they rail: "All is vain!" ¶2554
• But to eat and drink well, my brethren, is verily no vain art! Break up, break up for me the tables of the never-joyous ones! ¶2555
• "To the clean are all things clean"--thus say the people. I, however, say unto you: To the swine all things become swinish! ¶2557
• Therefore preach the visionaries and bowed-heads (whose hearts are also bowed down): "The world itself is a filthy monster." ¶2558
• For these are all unclean spirits; especially those, however, who have no peace or rest, unless they see the world FROM THE BACKSIDE--the backworldsmen! ¶2559
• TO THOSE do I say it to the face, although it sound unpleasantly: the world resembleth man, in that it hath a backside,--SO MUCH is true! ¶2560
• There is in the world much filth: SO MUCH is true! But the world itself is not therefore a filthy monster! ¶2561
• There is wisdom in the fact that much in the world smelleth badly: loathing itself createth wings, and fountain-divining powers! ¶2562
• In the best there is still something to loathe; and the best is still something that must be surpassed!-- ¶2563
• O my brethren, there is much wisdom in the fact that much filth is in the world!-- ¶2564
• Such sayings did I hear pious backworldsmen speak to their consciences, and verily without wickedness or guile,--although there is nothing more guileful in the world, or more wicked. ¶2566
• "Let the world be as it is! Raise not a finger against it!" ¶2567
• "Let whoever will choke and stab and skin and scrape the people: raise not a finger against it! Thereby will they learn to renounce the world." ¶2568
• "And thine own reason--this shalt thou thyself stifle and choke; for it is a reason of this world,--thereby wilt thou learn thyself to renounce the world."-- ¶2569

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