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- 0:00Speaker 1: Thus spake Zarathustra by Friederic Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common
- 0:09Speaker 1: Zarathustra's prolog one. When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he
- 0:16Speaker 1: left his home and the wake of his home, and
- 0:19Speaker 1: went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit in solitude,
- 0:24Speaker 1: and for ten years did not weary of it. But
- 0:27Speaker 1: at last his heart changed, and, rising one morning with
- 0:30Speaker 1: the rosy dawn, he went before the sun and spake,
- 0:34Speaker 1: thus unto it, Thou, great star, what would be thy happiness?
- 0:39Speaker 1: If thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest for
- 0:43Speaker 1: ten years, hast thou climbed hither unto my cave, Thou
- 0:46Speaker 1: wouldst have wearied of thy light and of the journey,
- 0:50Speaker 1: had it not been for me, mine eagle, and my serpent.
- 0:54Speaker 1: But we awaited THEE every morning, took from thee thine overflow,
- 0:58Speaker 1: and blessed THEE for it. Lo, I am weary of
- 1:02Speaker 1: my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey.
- 1:07Speaker 1: I need hands outstretched to take it. I would fame, bestow,
- 1:11Speaker 1: and distribute, until the wise have once more become joyous
- 1:14Speaker 1: in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches. Therefore,
- 1:20Speaker 1: must I descend into the deep, as thou doest in
- 1:24Speaker 1: the evening, when thou goest behind the sea and givest
- 1:27Speaker 1: light also to the nether world, Thou exuberant star like thee,
- 1:33Speaker 1: must I go down, as men say, to whom I
- 1:38Speaker 1: shall descend. Bless me, then, thou, tranquil ie, that canst
- 1:43Speaker 1: behold even the greatest happiness without envy. Bless the cup
- 1:48Speaker 1: that is about to overflow, that the water may flow
- 1:51Speaker 1: golden out of it and carry everywhere the reflection of
- 1:55Speaker 1: thy bliss. Lo this cup is again going to empty itself,
- 2:00Speaker 1: and Zarathustra is again going to be a man. Thus
- 2:05Speaker 1: began Zarathustra's down going.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Two.
- 2:11Speaker 1: Zarathustra went down the mountain alone, no one meeting him.
- 2:15Speaker 1: When he entered the forest, however, there suddenly stood before
- 2:19Speaker 1: him an old man who had left his holy cot
- 2:22Speaker 1: to seek roots. And thus spake the old man to Zarathustra.
- 2:28Speaker 1: No stranger to me. Is this wanderer many years ago
- 2:32Speaker 1: passed he by Zarathustra, he was called, but he hath altered.
- 2:38Speaker 1: Then Thou carriest thine ashes into the mountain. Wilt thou
- 2:42Speaker 1: now carry thy fire into the valleys. Fearest thou not
- 2:46Speaker 1: the incendiary's doom? Yea I recognize Zarathustra. Peer is his eye,
- 2:53Speaker 1: and no loathing lurketh about his mouth. Goeth he not
- 2:57Speaker 1: along like a dancer altered? Is Zarathustra. A child? Hath
- 3:03Speaker 1: Zarathustra become an awakened one? Is Zarathustra. What wilt thou
- 3:09Speaker 1: do in the land of the sleepers? As in the sea?
- 3:12Speaker 1: Hast thou lived in solitude, and it hath borne thee
- 3:16Speaker 1: up alas wilt thou now go ashore? Alas wilt thou
- 3:22Speaker 1: again drag thy body thyself. Zarathustra answered, I love mankind?
- 3:30Speaker 1: Why said the Saint? Did I go into the forest
- 3:33Speaker 1: and the desert? Was it not because I loved men
- 3:37Speaker 1: far too well? Now I love God men. I do
- 3:41Speaker 1: not love man. Is a thing too imperfect for me.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Love to man would be fatal to me. Zarathustra answered,
- 3:51Speaker 1: what spake I of love? I am bringing gifts unto men?
- 3:56Speaker 1: Give them nothing, said the Saint. Take rather part of
- 4:00Speaker 1: their load and carry it along with them. That will
- 4:03Speaker 1: be most agreeable unto them, if only it be agreeable
- 4:07Speaker 1: unto thee. If however, thou wilt give unto them, give
- 4:13Speaker 1: them no more than an alms, and let them also
- 4:16Speaker 1: beg for it. No, replied Zarathustra, I give no alms.
- 4:22Speaker 1: I am not poor enough for that. The saint laughed
- 4:25Speaker 1: at Zarathustra and spake. Thus, then see to it that
- 4:30Speaker 1: they accept thy treasures. They are distrustful of anchorites, and
- 4:34Speaker 1: do not believe that we come with gifts. The fall
- 4:38Speaker 1: of our footsteps wringeth too hollow through their streets. And
- 4:43Speaker 1: just as at night when they are in bed and
- 4:45Speaker 1: hear a man abroad long before sunrise, so they ask
- 4:49Speaker 1: themselves concerning us, where goeth the thief? Go not to men,
- 4:55Speaker 1: but stay in the forest, Go rather to the animals.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Be like me a bear amongst bears, a bird amongst birds.
- 5:07Speaker 1: And what doeth the saint in the forest, asked Zarathustra.
- 5:12Speaker 1: The saint answered, I make hymns and sing them, And
- 5:15Speaker 1: in making hymns I laugh and weep and mumble. Thus
- 5:19Speaker 1: do I praise God with singing, weeping, laughing and mumbling?
- 5:25Speaker 1: Do I praise the God who is my God? But
- 5:28Speaker 1: what dost thou bring us as a gift. When Zarathustra
- 5:32Speaker 1: had heard these words, he bowed to the saint and said,
- 5:36Speaker 1: what should I have to give thee? Let me rather hurry,
- 5:40Speaker 1: hence lest I take aught away from thee. And thus
- 5:43Speaker 1: they parted from one another, the old man and Zarathustra,
- 5:47Speaker 1: laughing like schoolboys. When Zarathustra was alone, however, he said
- 5:54Speaker 1: to his heart, could it be possible, this old saying,
- 5:58Speaker 1: the forest hath not yet heard of it? That God
- 6:01Speaker 1: is dead? Three. When Zarathustra arrived at the nearest town,
- 6:08Speaker 1: which adjoineth the forest, he found many people assembled in
- 6:12Speaker 1: the marketplace, for it had been announced that a rope
- 6:15Speaker 1: dancer would give a performance. And Zarathustra spake, thus, unto
- 6:20Speaker 1: the people, I teach you the superman man is something
- 6:24Speaker 1: that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to
- 6:27Speaker 1: surpass man? All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves?
- 6:33Speaker 1: And ye want to be the ebb of that great tide,
- 6:36Speaker 1: and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man.
- 6:41Speaker 1: What is the ape to man a laughing stock a
- 6:44Speaker 1: thing of shame? And just the same shall man be
- 6:48Speaker 1: to the superman a laughing stock a thing of shame.
- 6:53Speaker 1: Ye have made your way from the worm to man,
- 6:57Speaker 1: and much within you is still worm. Once were ye apes,
- 7:02Speaker 1: And even yet man is more of an ape than
- 7:05Speaker 1: any of the apes. Even the wisest among you is
- 7:09Speaker 1: only a disharmony and hybrid of plant and phantom. But
- 7:14Speaker 1: do I bid you become phantoms or plants. Lo I
- 7:18Speaker 1: teach you the superman. The Superman is the meaning of
- 7:22Speaker 1: the earth. Let your will say, the Superman shall be
- 7:28Speaker 1: the meaning of the earth. I conjure you, my brethren,
- 7:32Speaker 1: remain true to the earth, and believe not those who
- 7:36Speaker 1: speak unto you of super earthly hopes. Poisoners are they,
- 7:41Speaker 1: whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they,
- 7:45Speaker 1: decaying ones and poisoned ones themselves, of whom the earth
- 7:49Speaker 1: is wary, So away with them. Once blasphemy against God
- 7:55Speaker 1: was the greatest blasphemy. But God died, and therewith all
- 8:00Speaker 1: of those blasphemers. To blaspheme the earth is now the
- 8:03Speaker 1: dreadfulest sin. And to rate the heart of the unknowable
- 8:08Speaker 1: higher than the meaning of the earth. Once the soul
- 8:12Speaker 1: looked contemptuously on the body, and then that contempt was
- 8:16Speaker 1: the supreme thing. The soul wished the body meager ghastly
- 8:22Speaker 1: and famished. Thus it thought to escape from the body
- 8:26Speaker 1: and the earth. Oh, that the soul was itself meager,
- 8:30Speaker 1: ghastly and famished, and cruelty was the delight of that soul.
- 8:36Speaker 1: But ye, also, my brethren, tell me what doth your
- 8:41Speaker 1: body say about your soul? Is your soul not poverty
- 8:45Speaker 1: and pollution and wretched self complacency. Verily, a polluted stream
- 8:51Speaker 1: is man. One must be a sea to receive a
- 8:55Speaker 1: polluted stream without becoming impure. Lo I teach you superman,
- 9:01Speaker 1: he is that see in him? Can your great contempt
- 9:05Speaker 1: be submerged? What is the greatest thing you can experience?
- 9:10Speaker 1: It is the hour of great contempt, The hour in
- 9:13Speaker 1: which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so
- 9:18Speaker 1: also your reason and virtue. The hour when you say,
- 9:23Speaker 1: what good is my happiness? It is poverty and pollution
- 9:26Speaker 1: and wretched self complacency. But my happiness should justify existence itself.
- 9:33Speaker 1: The hour when you say, what good is my reason?
- 9:37Speaker 1: Doth it long for knowledge as the lion for his food?
- 9:40Speaker 1: It is poverty and pollution and wretched self complacency. The
- 9:45Speaker 1: hour when you say what good is my virtue? And
- 9:48Speaker 1: Yet it hath not made me passionate. How weary I
- 9:52Speaker 1: am of my good and my bad? It is all
- 9:56Speaker 1: poverty and pollution and wretched self complacency. The hour when
- 10:01Speaker 1: ye say what good is my justice? I do not
- 10:05Speaker 1: see that I am fervor and fuel the just, however,
- 10:10Speaker 1: are fervor and fuel the hour when ye say what
- 10:15Speaker 1: good is my pity? Is not pity the cross on
- 10:20Speaker 1: which he is nailed? Who loveth man? But my pity
- 10:24Speaker 1: is not a crucifixion. Have ye ever spoken thus? Have
- 10:29Speaker 1: you ever cried thus?
- 10:30Speaker 3: Ah?
- 10:31Speaker 1: Would that I had heard you crying? Thus? It is
- 10:34Speaker 1: not your sin. It is your self satisfaction that crieth
- 10:38Speaker 1: unto heaven. Your very sparingness in sin crieth unto heaven.
- 10:44Speaker 1: Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue?
- 10:47Speaker 1: Where is the frenzy with which ye should be inoculated?
- 10:51Speaker 1: Lo I teach you the superman. He is that lightning,
- 10:55Speaker 1: He is that frenzy. When Zarathustra had thus spoke, one
- 11:01Speaker 1: of the people called out, we have now heard enough
- 11:04Speaker 1: of the rope dancer. It is time now for us
- 11:07Speaker 1: to see him. And all the people laughed at Zarathustra
- 11:12Speaker 1: but the rope dancer, who thought the words applied to
- 11:15Speaker 1: him began his performance. Four Zarathustra, however, looked at the
- 11:23Speaker 1: people and wondered. Then he spake. Thus, man is a
- 11:28Speaker 1: rope stretched between the animal and the superman, a rope
- 11:32Speaker 1: over an abyss, a dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a
- 11:38Speaker 1: dangerous looking back, a dangerous trembling and halting. What is
- 11:43Speaker 1: great in man is that he is a bridge and
- 11:46Speaker 1: not a goal. What is lovable in man is that
- 11:49Speaker 1: he is an overgoing and a down going. I love
- 11:54Speaker 1: those that know not how to live except as down gooers,
- 11:58Speaker 1: for they are the overgoer. I love the great despisers,
- 12:03Speaker 1: because they are the great adorers and arrows of longing
- 12:07Speaker 1: for the other shore. I love those who do not
- 12:11Speaker 1: first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down
- 12:14Speaker 1: and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth that
- 12:19Speaker 1: the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive. I love
- 12:24Speaker 1: him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know,
- 12:28Speaker 1: in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh
- 12:32Speaker 1: he his own down gooing. I loveth him who labereth
- 12:37Speaker 1: and inventeth, that he may build the house for the superman,
- 12:42Speaker 1: and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant. For thus
- 12:47Speaker 1: seeketh he his own down gooing. I love him who
- 12:51Speaker 1: loveth his virtue, For virtue is the will to dowgoing
- 12:55Speaker 1: and an arrow of longing. I love him who reserveth
- 12:59Speaker 1: no sh share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to
- 13:02Speaker 1: be holy the spirit of his virtue. Thus walketh he
- 13:07Speaker 1: as spirit over the bridge. I love him who maketh
- 13:11Speaker 1: his virtue his inclination and destiny. Thus, for the sake
- 13:17Speaker 1: of his virtue, he is willing to live on or
- 13:20Speaker 1: live no more. I love him who desireth not too
- 13:24Speaker 1: many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two,
- 13:29Speaker 1: because it is more of a knot for one's destiny
- 13:31Speaker 1: to cling to. I love him whose soul is lavish,
- 13:35Speaker 1: who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back, for
- 13:40Speaker 1: he always bestoweth and desireth not to keep for himself.
- 13:45Speaker 1: I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall
- 13:48Speaker 1: in his favor, and who then asketh am I a
- 13:51Speaker 1: dishonest player? For he is willing to succumb. I love
- 13:58Speaker 1: him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds
- 14:02Speaker 1: and always doeth more than he promiseth, for he seeketh
- 14:05Speaker 1: his own downgoing. I love him who justifieth the future
- 14:11Speaker 1: ones and redeemeth the past ones, for he is willing
- 14:15Speaker 1: to succumb through the present ones. I love him who
- 14:20Speaker 1: chasteth his God, because he loveth his God, for he
- 14:24Speaker 1: must succumb through the wrath of his God. I love
- 14:29Speaker 1: him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and
- 14:33Speaker 1: may succumb through a small matter. Thus goeth he willingly
- 14:37Speaker 1: over the bridge. I love him whose soul is so
- 14:41Speaker 1: over full that he forgeteth himself, and all things are
- 14:45Speaker 1: in him. Thus all things become his downgoing. I love
- 14:52Speaker 1: him who is of a free spirit and a free heart.
- 14:56Speaker 1: Thus is his head only the bowels of his heart.
- 15:00Speaker 1: His heart, however, causeth his down gooing. I love all
- 15:05Speaker 1: who are like heavy drops falling one by one out
- 15:09Speaker 1: of the dark cloud that lowereth over man. They herald
- 15:13Speaker 1: the coming of the lightning and succumb as heralds lo.
- 15:19Speaker 1: I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy
- 15:21Speaker 1: drop out of the cloud. The lightning, however, is the superman. Five.
- 15:30Speaker 1: When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he again looked at
- 15:34Speaker 1: the people, and was silent. There they stand, said he
- 15:39Speaker 1: to his heart. There they laugh, they understand me. Not
- 15:44Speaker 1: I am not the mouth for these ears. Must one
- 15:48Speaker 1: first batter their ears that they may learn to hear
- 15:51Speaker 1: with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettle drums and
- 15:56Speaker 1: penitential preachers? Or do they only believe this stammer? They
- 16:01Speaker 1: have something whereof they are proud. What do they call it?
- 16:06Speaker 1: That which maketh them proud? Culture? They call it it
- 16:09Speaker 1: distinguisheth them from the goatherds. They dislike, therefore to hear
- 16:16Speaker 1: of contempt of themselves. So I will appeal to their pride.
- 16:22Speaker 1: I will speak unto them of the most contemptible thing, that, however,
- 16:28Speaker 1: is the last man. And thus spake Zarathustra unto the people.
- 16:34Speaker 1: It is time for man to fix his goal. It
- 16:37Speaker 1: is time for man to plant the germ of his
- 16:39Speaker 1: highest hope. Still is his soil rich enough for it?
- 16:44Speaker 1: But that soil will one day be poor and exhausted,
- 16:47Speaker 1: and no lofty tree will any longer be able to
- 16:50Speaker 1: grow thereon alas, there cometh the time when man will
- 16:56Speaker 1: no longer launch the arrow of his longing beyond man
- 17:00Speaker 1: and the string of his bow will have unlearned to whiz.
- 17:04Speaker 1: I tell you one must still have chaos in one
- 17:08Speaker 1: to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you
- 17:12Speaker 1: he have still chaos in you. Alas there cometh the
- 17:16Speaker 1: time when man will no longer give birth to any star.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Alas there cometh the time of the most despicable man,
- 17:25Speaker 1: who can no longer despise himself. Lo, I show you
- 17:31Speaker 1: the last man, what is love? What is creation? What
- 17:35Speaker 1: is longing? What is a star? So asketh the last man,
- 17:40Speaker 1: and blinketh The earth hath then become small? And on
- 17:46Speaker 1: it there hoppeth the last man, who maketh everything small.
- 17:50Speaker 1: His species is ineradicable, like that of the ground flea.
- 17:55Speaker 1: The last man liveth longest. We have discovered how happiness,
- 18:01Speaker 1: say the last men, and blink Thereby. They have left
- 18:05Speaker 1: the regions where it is hard to live, for they
- 18:08Speaker 1: need warmth. One still loveth one's neighbor, and rubbeth against him,
- 18:13Speaker 1: for one needeth warmth. Turning ill and being distrustful, they
- 18:18Speaker 1: consider sinful, they walk warily. He is a fool who
- 18:23Speaker 1: still stumbleth over stones or men. A little poison now
- 18:28Speaker 1: and then that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at
- 18:32Speaker 1: last for a pleasant death. One still worketh, for work
- 18:37Speaker 1: is a pastime, but one is careful lest the pastime
- 18:41Speaker 1: should hurt one. One no longer becometh poor or rich.
- 18:46Speaker 1: Both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who
- 18:51Speaker 1: still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome. No shepherd
- 18:57Speaker 1: and one heard everyone wanteth this. Everyone is equal. He
- 19:03Speaker 1: who hath other sentiments goeth voluntarily into the madhouse. Formerly
- 19:09Speaker 1: all the world was insane, say the subtlest of them,
- 19:14Speaker 1: and blink thereby. They are clever and know all that
- 19:19Speaker 1: hath happened. So there is no end to their raillery.
- 19:23Speaker 1: People still fall out, but are soon reconciled. Otherwise it
- 19:28Speaker 1: spoileth their stomachs. They have their little pleasures for the day,
- 19:32Speaker 1: and their little pleasures for the night, but they have
- 19:35Speaker 1: a regard for health. We have discovered happiness, say the
- 19:39Speaker 1: last men, and blink thereby. And here ended the first
- 19:44Speaker 1: discourse of Zarathustra, which is also called the prologue, for
- 19:49Speaker 1: at this point the shouting and mirth of the multitude
- 19:53Speaker 1: interrupted him. Give us this last man, oh Zarathustra, they
- 19:58Speaker 1: called out, Make us into these last men, then will
- 20:04Speaker 1: we make thee a present of the superman. And all
- 20:09Speaker 1: the people exulted and smacked their lips. Zarathustra, however, turned
- 20:15Speaker 1: sad and said to his heart, they understand me not.
- 20:19Speaker 1: I am not the mouth for these ears too long?
- 20:23Speaker 1: Perhaps have I lived in the mountains too much? Have
- 20:27Speaker 1: I harkened unto the brooks and trees? Now do I
- 20:30Speaker 1: speak unto them as unto the goatherds. Calm is my soul,
- 20:36Speaker 1: and clear like the mountains in the morning. But they
- 20:40Speaker 1: think me cold and a mocker with terrible jests. And
- 20:45Speaker 1: now do they look at me and laugh? And while
- 20:49Speaker 1: they laugh, they hate me too. There is ice in
- 20:53Speaker 1: their laughter.
- 20:56Speaker 4: Six.
- 20:58Speaker 1: Then, however, something happened which made every mouth mute and
- 21:02Speaker 1: every eye fixed. In the meantime, of course, the rope
- 21:06Speaker 1: dancer had commenced his performance. He had come out at
- 21:10Speaker 1: a little door and was going along the rope, which
- 21:13Speaker 1: was stretched between two towers so that it hung above
- 21:17Speaker 1: the marketplace and the people. When he was just midway across,
- 21:22Speaker 1: the little door opened once more, and a gaudily dressed
- 21:25Speaker 1: fellow like a buffoon, sprang out and went rapidly after
- 21:30Speaker 1: the first one go on halt foot, cried his frightful voice.
- 21:35Speaker 1: Go on, lazy bones, interloper, sallow face, lest I tickle
- 21:39Speaker 1: thee with my heel. What dost thou hear? Between the
- 21:43Speaker 1: towers and the tower is the place for thee? Thou
- 21:47Speaker 1: shouldst be locked up to one better than thyself. Thou
- 21:50Speaker 1: blockest the way, And with every word he came nearer
- 21:54Speaker 1: and nearer the first one. When, however, he was but
- 21:58Speaker 1: a step behind, there happened the frightful thing, which made
- 22:01Speaker 1: every mouth mute and every eye fixed. He uttered a
- 22:05Speaker 1: yell like a devil, and jumped over the other who
- 22:08Speaker 1: was in his way. The latter, however, when he thus
- 22:12Speaker 1: saw his rival triumph lost at the same time his
- 22:15Speaker 1: head and his footing on the rope, he threw his
- 22:18Speaker 1: pole away and shot downwards faster than it, like an
- 22:22Speaker 1: eddy of arms and legs, into the depth. The marketplace
- 22:27Speaker 1: and the people were like the sea. When the storm
- 22:30Speaker 1: cometh on, they all flew apart and in disorder, especially
- 22:35Speaker 1: where the body was about to fall. Zarathustra, however, remained standing,
- 22:41Speaker 1: and just beside him fell the body, badly injured and disfigured,
- 22:45Speaker 1: but not yet dead. After a while consciousness returned to
- 22:49Speaker 1: the shattered man, and he saw Zarathustra kneeling beside him.
- 22:54Speaker 1: What art thou doing here? Said he at last, I
- 22:57Speaker 1: knew long ago that the devil would trip me up.
- 23:00Speaker 1: Now he draggeth me to hell. Wilt thou prevent him?
- 23:05Speaker 1: On mine honor? My friend, answered Zarathustra, there is nothing
- 23:10Speaker 1: of all that whereof thou speakest, there is no devil
- 23:13Speaker 1: and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner
- 23:17Speaker 1: than thy body. Fear therefore nothing anymore. The man looked
- 23:22Speaker 1: up distrustfully. If thou speakest the truth, said he, I
- 23:28Speaker 1: lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not
- 23:31Speaker 1: much more than an animal which hath been taught to
- 23:34Speaker 1: dance by blows and scanty. Fair not at all, said Zarathustra.
- 23:40Speaker 1: Thou hast made danger thy calling therein there is nothing contemptible.
- 23:46Speaker 1: Now thou perishest by thy calling. Therefore will I bury
- 23:51Speaker 1: thee with mine own hands. When Zarathustra had said this,
- 23:55Speaker 1: the dying one did not reply further, but he moved
- 23:59Speaker 1: his hand as if he sought the hand of Zarathustra
- 24:02Speaker 1: in gratitude.
- 24:04Speaker 5: Seven.
- 24:06Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the evening came on and the marketplace veiled itself
- 24:10Speaker 1: in gloom. Then the people dispersed, for even curiosity and
- 24:14Speaker 1: terror became fatigued. Zarathustra, however, still sat beside the dead
- 24:20Speaker 1: man on the ground, absorbed in thought. So he forgot
- 24:24Speaker 1: the time. But at last it became night, and a
- 24:29Speaker 1: cold wind blew upon the lonely one. Then arose Zarathustra
- 24:33Speaker 1: and said to his heart, verily, a fine ketch of
- 24:38Speaker 1: fish hath Zarathustra made today. It is not a man
- 24:42Speaker 1: he hath caught, but a corpse. Somber is human life,
- 24:46Speaker 1: and as yet without meaning, a buffoon may be faithful
- 24:50Speaker 1: to it. I want to teach men the sense of
- 24:53Speaker 1: their existence, which is the superman, the lightning out of
- 24:57Speaker 1: the dark cloud man. But still am I far from them,
- 25:04Speaker 1: and my sense speaketh not unto their sense. To men,
- 25:08Speaker 1: I am still something between a fool and a corpse.
- 25:12Speaker 1: Gloomy is the knight. Gloomy are the ways of Zarathustra.
- 25:16Speaker 1: Come thou, cold and stiff companion. I carry thee to
- 25:20Speaker 1: the place where I shall bury thee with mine own hands.
- 25:24Speaker 4: Eight.
- 25:26Speaker 1: When Zarathustra had said this to his heart, he put
- 25:29Speaker 1: the corpse upon his shoulders and set out on his way.
- 25:32Speaker 1: Yet he had not gone a hundred steps when there
- 25:35Speaker 1: stole a man up to him and whispered in his ear.
- 25:38Speaker 1: And lo he that spake was the buffoon from the tower.
- 25:42Speaker 1: Leave this town, oh, Zarathustra said he. There are too
- 25:47Speaker 1: many here who hate THEE the good, and just hate
- 25:50Speaker 1: THEE and call THEE their enemy and despiser. The believers
- 25:55Speaker 1: in the Orthodox belief hate THEE and call THEE a
- 25:58Speaker 1: danger to the multitude. It was thy good fortune to
- 26:01Speaker 1: be laughed at, And verily thou spakest like a buffoon,
- 26:05Speaker 1: it was thy good fortune to associate with the dead dog.
- 26:09Speaker 1: By so humiliating thyself, thou hast saved thy life. Today. Depart, however,
- 26:15Speaker 1: from this town, or tomorrow, I shall jump over THEE,
- 26:19Speaker 1: a living man over a dead one. And when he
- 26:22Speaker 1: had said this, the buffoon vanished. Zarathustra, however, went on
- 26:29Speaker 1: through the dark streets. At the gate of the town,
- 26:32Speaker 1: the grave diggers met him. They shone their torch on
- 26:35Speaker 1: his face, and recognizing Zarathustra, they sorely derided him. Zarathustra
- 26:41Speaker 1: is carrying away the dead dog. A fine thing that
- 26:44Speaker 1: Zarathustra hath turned a grave digger, for our hands are
- 26:48Speaker 1: too cleanly for that roast. Will Zarathustra steal the bite
- 26:52Speaker 1: from the devil? Well, then good luck to the repast.
- 26:57Speaker 1: If only the devil is not a better thief than Zarahthustra,
- 27:01Speaker 1: he will steal them both. He will eat them both.
- 27:05Speaker 1: And they laughed among themselves and put their heads together.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Zarathustra made no answer there too, but went on his way.
- 27:14Speaker 1: When he had gone on for two hours past forests
- 27:18Speaker 1: and swamps, he had heard too much of the hungry
- 27:21Speaker 1: howling of the wolves, and he himself became hungry. So
- 27:25Speaker 1: he halted at a lonely house in which the light
- 27:27Speaker 1: was burning. Hunger attacketh me, said Zarathustra, like a robber
- 27:33Speaker 1: among forests and swamps. My hunger attacketh me, and late
- 27:37Speaker 1: in the night strange humors hath my hunger. Often it
- 27:42Speaker 1: cometh to me only after a repast, and all day
- 27:45Speaker 1: it hath failed to come where hath it been? And
- 27:50Speaker 1: thereupon Zarathustra knocked at the door of the house. An
- 27:54Speaker 1: old man appeared, who carried a light, and asked, who
- 27:57Speaker 1: cometh unto me? And my bad sleep? A living man
- 28:02Speaker 1: and a dead one, said, Zarathustra, give me something to
- 28:06Speaker 1: eat and drink. I forgot it during the day. He
- 28:09Speaker 1: that feedeth the hungry refresheth his own soul saith wisdom.
- 28:14Speaker 1: The old man withdrew, but came back immediately and offered
- 28:18Speaker 1: Zarathustra bread and wine. A bad country for the hungry,
- 28:22Speaker 1: said he, that is why I live here. Animal and
- 28:26Speaker 1: man come unto me the anchorite, But bid thy companion
- 28:30Speaker 1: eat and drink. Also he is warier than thou. Zarathustra answered,
- 28:36Speaker 1: my companion is dead. I shall hardly be able to
- 28:39Speaker 1: persuade him to eat. That doth not concern me, said
- 28:44Speaker 1: the old man, sullenly. He that knocketh at my door
- 28:47Speaker 1: must take what I offer him, eat and fare ye well. Thereafter,
- 28:53Speaker 1: Zarathustra again went on for two hours, trusting to the
- 28:57Speaker 1: path and the light of the stars, for he was
- 29:00Speaker 1: an experienced night walker and liked to look into the
- 29:03Speaker 1: face of all that slept. When the morning dawned, however,
- 29:09Speaker 1: Zarathustra found himself in a thick forest, and no path
- 29:13Speaker 1: was any longer visible. He then put the dead man
- 29:17Speaker 1: in a hollow tree at his head, for he wanted
- 29:20Speaker 1: to protect him from the wolves, and laid himself down
- 29:25Speaker 1: to sleep on the ground and moss. And immediately he
- 29:29Speaker 1: fell asleep, tired in body, but with a tranquil soul.
- 29:35Speaker 1: Nine long slept Zarathustra, and not only the rosy dawn
- 29:41Speaker 1: passed over his head, but also the morning. At last, however,
- 29:46Speaker 1: his eyes opened, and amazedly he gazed into the forest
- 29:50Speaker 1: and the stillness. Amazedly he gazed into himself. Then he
- 29:55Speaker 1: arose quickly like a seafarer who all at once seethed
- 29:59Speaker 1: the land. And he shouted for joy, for he saw
- 30:02Speaker 1: a new truth, and he spake thus to his heart.
- 30:07Speaker 1: A light hath dawned upon me. I need companions, living ones,
- 30:12Speaker 1: not dead companions and corpses, which I carry with me
- 30:15Speaker 1: where I will. But I need living companions who will
- 30:19Speaker 1: follow me because they want to follow themselves, and to
- 30:24Speaker 1: the place where I will. A light hath dawned upon me.
- 30:29Speaker 1: Not to the people is Zarathustra to speak, but to companions.
- 30:33Speaker 1: Zarathustras shall not be the herd's herdsmen and hound to
- 30:37Speaker 1: allure many from the herd. For that purpose have I come.
- 30:41Speaker 1: The people and the herd must be angry with me.
- 30:45Speaker 6: A robber.
- 30:46Speaker 1: Shall Zarathustra be called by the herdsman? Herdsmen, I say,
- 30:51Speaker 1: but they call themselves the good and just. Herdsmen, I say,
- 30:56Speaker 1: but they call themselves the believers and the orthodox belief
- 31:00Speaker 1: Behold the good and just? Whom do they hate most,
- 31:04Speaker 1: Him who breaketh up their tables of values? The breaker,
- 31:08Speaker 1: the lawbreaker? He, however, is the Creator. Behold the believers
- 31:14Speaker 1: of all beliefs. Whom do they hate most? Him who
- 31:18Speaker 1: breaketh up their tables of values? The breaker, the law breaker, He, however,
- 31:24Speaker 1: is the Creator. Companions. The Creator seeketh not corpses, and
- 31:30Speaker 1: not herds or believers either fellow creators. The Creator seeketh
- 31:36Speaker 1: those who grave new values on new tables. Companions, the
- 31:40Speaker 1: Creator seeketh and fellow reapers. For everything is ripe for
- 31:45Speaker 1: the harvest with him, But he lacketh the hundred sickles.
- 31:49Speaker 1: So he plucketh the ears of corn and is vexed. Companions,
- 31:55Speaker 1: the Creator seeketh, and such as know how to wet
- 31:58Speaker 1: their sickles. Destroyers will they be called, and despisers of
- 32:03Speaker 1: good and evil? But they are the reapers and rejoicers.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Fellow creators. Zarathustras seeketh fellow reapers and fellow rejoicers. Zarathustra
- 32:15Speaker 1: seeketh what hath he to do with herds and herdsmen
- 32:20Speaker 1: and corpses, And thou, my first companion, rest in peace?
- 32:26Speaker 1: Well have I buried thee in thy hollow tree? Well
- 32:30Speaker 1: have I hid thee from the wolves? But I part
- 32:34Speaker 1: from thee the time hath arrived TwixT rosy dawn and
- 32:39Speaker 1: rosy dawn, there came unto me a new truth. I
- 32:43Speaker 1: am not to be a herdsman. I am not to
- 32:45Speaker 1: be a grave digger. Not anymore will I discourse unto
- 32:48Speaker 1: the people for the last time? Have I spoken unto
- 32:52Speaker 1: the dead, with the creators, the reapers, and the rejoicers.
- 32:58Speaker 1: Will I associate the rainbow? Will I show them and
- 33:02Speaker 1: all the stairs to the superman, to the lone dweller,
- 33:06Speaker 1: will I sing my song? And to the twain dwellers,
- 33:10Speaker 1: and unto him who hath still ears for the unheard.
- 33:13Speaker 1: While I make the heart heavy with my happiness, I
- 33:18Speaker 1: make for my goal. I follow my course over the
- 33:22Speaker 1: loitering and tardy while I leap. Thus let my ongoing
- 33:27Speaker 1: be there down going ten. This had Zarathustra said to
- 33:32Speaker 1: his heart. When the sun stood at noontide. Then he
- 33:36Speaker 1: looked inquiringly aloft, for he heard above him the sharp
- 33:40Speaker 1: call of a bird. And behold an eagle swept through
- 33:44Speaker 1: the air in wide circles, And on it hung a serpent,
- 33:49Speaker 1: not like a prey, but like a friend, for it
- 33:52Speaker 1: kept itself coiled round the eagle's neck. They are mine animals,
- 33:57Speaker 1: said Zarathustra, and rejoiced in his heart. The proudest animal
- 34:02Speaker 1: under the sun, and the wisest animal under the sun.
- 34:06Speaker 1: They have come out to reconnoiter. They want to know
- 34:10Speaker 1: whether Zarathustras still liveth verily, do I still live? More dangerous?
- 34:17Speaker 1: Have I found it among men than among animals? In
- 34:21Speaker 1: dangerous paths? Goeth Zarathustra. Let mine animals lead me. When
- 34:27Speaker 1: Zarathustra had said this, he remembered the words of the
- 34:30Speaker 1: saint in the forest. Then he sighed and spake, thus
- 34:34Speaker 1: to his heart. Would that I were wiser, Would that
- 34:38Speaker 1: I were wise from the very heart like my serpent.
- 34:42Speaker 1: But I am asking the impossible. Therefore, do I ask
- 34:46Speaker 1: my pride to go always with my wisdom. And if
- 34:50Speaker 1: my wisdom should someday forsake me alas it loveth to
- 34:54Speaker 1: fly away, May my pride then fly with my folly.
- 35:01Speaker 1: Thus began Zarathustra's down gooing end of Zarathustra's prologue.
- 35:12Speaker 2: Thus spake Zarathustra by Frederic Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common,
- 35:18Speaker 2: Part one, Chapter one, The Three Metamorphoses Three metamorphoses of
- 35:27Speaker 2: the Spirit. Do I designate to you? How the spirit
- 35:31Speaker 2: becometh a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion
- 35:35Speaker 2: alast a child. Many heavy things are there for the spirit,
- 35:40Speaker 2: the strong, load bearing spirit, in which reverence dwelleth for
- 35:44Speaker 2: the heavy and the heaviest. Longeth is strength? What is heavy?
- 35:50Speaker 2: So asketh the load bearing Spirit? Then kneeleth it down
- 35:54Speaker 2: like the camel, and wanteth to be well laden? What
- 35:58Speaker 2: is the heaviest thing?
- 35:59Speaker 7: You hear?
- 36:00Speaker 2: Ros, asketh the load bearing Spirit, that I might take
- 36:04Speaker 2: it upon me and rejoice in my strength. Is it
- 36:07Speaker 2: not this to humiliate one's self in order to morify
- 36:11Speaker 2: one's pride, to exhibit one's folly in order to mock
- 36:15Speaker 2: at one's wisdom? Or is it this to desert our
- 36:21Speaker 2: cause when it celebrateth its triumph, to ascend high mountains,
- 36:25Speaker 2: to tempt the tempter, or Is it this to feed
- 36:29Speaker 2: on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the
- 36:32Speaker 2: sake of truth, to suffer hunger of soul? Or is
- 36:35Speaker 2: it this to be sick and dismiss comforters and make
- 36:39Speaker 2: friends of the death who never hear thy requests? Or
- 36:43Speaker 2: is it this to go into foul water when it
- 36:46Speaker 2: is the water of truth, not disclaim cold frogs and
- 36:50Speaker 2: hot toads. Or is it this to love those who
- 36:53Speaker 2: despise us and give one's hand to the phantom when
- 36:56Speaker 2: it is going.
- 36:57Speaker 8: To frighten us?
- 37:00Speaker 2: All these heaviest things, the load bearing spirit taketh upon itself.
- 37:05Speaker 2: And like the camel, which, when laden, hasteneth into the wilderness,
- 37:09Speaker 2: so hasteneth the Spirit into its wilderness. But in the
- 37:13Speaker 2: loneliest wilderness happeneth the second metamorphosis. Here the spirit becometh
- 37:18Speaker 2: a lion. Freedom will capture it, and lordship and its
- 37:22Speaker 2: own wilderness its last lord. It here seeketh hostile. Will
- 37:26Speaker 2: it be to him and to last God for victory
- 37:29Speaker 2: will struggle with the great Dragon. What is the great dragon?
- 37:33Speaker 2: Which is spirit? Is no longer inclined to call Lord
- 37:36Speaker 2: and God? Thou shalt is the great dragon called for
- 37:40Speaker 2: the spirit of the lion saith I will thou shalt
- 37:44Speaker 2: lieth in its path, sparkling with gold a scale covered beast,
- 37:48Speaker 2: and on every scale glittereth golden. Thou shalt the values
- 37:53Speaker 2: of a thousand years glitter on those scales. And thus
- 37:56Speaker 2: speaketh the mightiest of all dragons. All the values of
- 37:59Speaker 2: things things glitter on me. All values have already been created,
- 38:05Speaker 2: And all created values do I represent? Verily, Thou shall
- 38:09Speaker 2: be no my will anymore, Thus speaketh the dragon, my brethren.
- 38:15Speaker 2: Wherefore is the need of the lion in the spirit,
- 38:18Speaker 2: Why sufficeth not the beast of burden, which renounceth and
- 38:23Speaker 2: is reverent to create new values that even the lion
- 38:27Speaker 2: cannot yet accomplish, But to create itself freedom for new creating,
- 38:33Speaker 2: that can the might of the lion do, to create
- 38:36Speaker 2: itself freedom and give a holy nay even unto duty.
- 38:40Speaker 2: For that, my brethren, there is need of a lion
- 38:44Speaker 2: to assume the right to new values. That is the
- 38:47Speaker 2: most formidable assumption for load bearing and reverent spirit. Verily
- 38:52Speaker 2: into such a spirit as praying and the work of
- 38:54Speaker 2: a beast of prey as its holiest at once loved
- 38:58Speaker 2: thou shalt, and now it is forced to find illusion
- 39:02Speaker 2: and arbitrariness, even in the holiest things that may capture
- 39:05Speaker 2: freedom from its love. The lion is needeth for this capture.
- 39:10Speaker 2: But tell me, my brethren, what the child can do,
- 39:15Speaker 2: which even the lion could not do. Why hath the
- 39:18Speaker 2: praying lions still to become a child? Innocence is the
- 39:22Speaker 2: child and forgetfulness, a new beginning, a game, a self
- 39:27Speaker 2: rolling wheel, a first movement, A holy ya aye for
- 39:32Speaker 2: the game of creating, My brethren, there is needed a
- 39:35Speaker 2: holy yea unto life its own will willeth. Now the
- 39:39Speaker 2: spirit his own world winneth the world's outcast. Three metamorphoses
- 39:46Speaker 2: of the spirit have I designated to you? How the
- 39:49Speaker 2: spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the
- 39:53Speaker 2: lion alast the child. Thus spake Zarathustra. And at the
- 39:58Speaker 2: time he abode in a town which is called the
- 40:00Speaker 2: Pied Cow. End of Chapter one.
- 40:09Speaker 1: Part one, Chapter two. The academic chairs of virtue people
- 40:17Speaker 1: commended unto Zarathustra, a wise man, as one who could
- 40:21Speaker 1: discourse well about sleep and virtue. Greatly was he honored
- 40:25Speaker 1: and rewarded for it, And all the youths sat before
- 40:28Speaker 1: his chair to him when Zarathustra and sat among the
- 40:33Speaker 1: youths before his chair, And thus spake the wise man
- 40:37Speaker 1: respect and modesty in presence of sleep, that is the
- 40:41Speaker 1: first thing, and go out of the way of all
- 40:44Speaker 1: who sleep badly and keep awake at night. Modest is
- 40:48Speaker 1: even the thief in the presence of sleep. He always
- 40:51Speaker 1: stealeth softly through the night. Immodest, however, is the night
- 40:56Speaker 1: watchman immodestly he carrieth his horn. No small art is
- 41:01Speaker 1: it to sleep. It is necessary for that purpose to
- 41:05Speaker 1: keep awake all day. Ten times a day must thou
- 41:09Speaker 1: overcome thyself, that causeth wholesome weariness and his poppy to
- 41:14Speaker 1: the soul. Ten times must thou reconcile again with thyself
- 41:18Speaker 1: for overcoming his bitterness and badly sleep the unreconciled. Ten
- 41:24Speaker 1: truths must thou find during the day, otherwise wilt thou
- 41:29Speaker 1: seek truth during the night, and thy soul will have
- 41:31Speaker 1: been hungry. Ten times must thou laugh during the day
- 41:35Speaker 1: and be cheerful, otherwise thy stomach, the father of affliction,
- 41:40Speaker 1: will disturb thee in the night. Few people know it,
- 41:44Speaker 1: but one must have all the virtues in order to
- 41:47Speaker 1: sleep well? Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery?
- 41:52Speaker 1: Shall I covet my neighbour's maid servant? All that would
- 41:56Speaker 1: ill accord with good sleep? Even if one have all
- 41:59Speaker 1: the virtues, there is still one thing needful, to send
- 42:03Speaker 1: the virtues themselves to sleep at the right time, that
- 42:07Speaker 1: they may not quarrel with one another. The good females
- 42:11Speaker 1: and about thee thou unhappy one, peace with God and
- 42:16Speaker 1: thy neighbor. So desireth good sleep, and peace also with
- 42:20Speaker 1: thy neighbour's devil. Otherwise it will haunt thee in the night.
- 42:25Speaker 1: Honor to the government and obedience, and also to the
- 42:29Speaker 1: crooked government. So desireth good sleep? How can I help it?
- 42:34Speaker 1: If power liketh to walk on crooked legs, he who
- 42:37Speaker 1: leadeth his sheep to the greenest pasture shall always be
- 42:41Speaker 1: for me the best shepherd. So doth it accord with
- 42:45Speaker 1: good sleep? Many honors I want not, nor great treasures
- 42:50Speaker 1: they excite the spleen. But it is bad sleeping without
- 42:54Speaker 1: a good name and a little treasure. A small company
- 42:58Speaker 1: is more welcome to me than a bad one. But
- 43:02Speaker 1: they must come and go at the right time. So
- 43:05Speaker 1: doth it accord with good sleep? Well? Also, do the
- 43:09Speaker 1: poor in spirit please me? They promote sleep? Blessed are they,
- 43:14Speaker 1: especially if one always give in to them. Thus passeth
- 43:18Speaker 1: the day unto the virtuous. When night cometh, then I
- 43:22Speaker 1: take good care not to summon sleep. It disliketh to
- 43:25Speaker 1: be summoned sleep, the Lord of the virtues. But I
- 43:31Speaker 1: think of what I have done and thought during the day.
- 43:34Speaker 1: Thus ruminating, patient as a cow, I ask myself, what
- 43:39Speaker 1: were thy ten overcomings? And what were the ten reconciliations,
- 43:44Speaker 1: and the ten truths? And the ten laughters with which
- 43:48Speaker 1: my heart enjoyed itself. Thus pondering and cradled by forty thoughts,
- 43:54Speaker 1: it overtaketh me all at once, Sleep, the unsummoned, the
- 43:59Speaker 1: Lord of the virtues. Sleep tappeth on mine eye, and
- 44:04Speaker 1: it turneth heavy. Sleep toucheth my mouth, and it remaineth
- 44:08Speaker 1: open verily on soft souls. Doth it come to me
- 44:14Speaker 1: the dearest of thieves, and stealeth from me my thoughts? Stupid?
- 44:18Speaker 1: Do I then stand like this academic chair? But not
- 44:22Speaker 1: much longer do I then stand? I already lie. When
- 44:28Speaker 1: Zarathustra heard the wise man, thus speak, He laughed in
- 44:32Speaker 1: his heart, for thereby had light dawned upon him, and
- 44:36Speaker 1: thus spakey to his heart. A fool seemeth this wise man,
- 44:41Speaker 1: with his forty thoughts. But I believe he knoweth well
- 44:45Speaker 1: how to sleep happy, even as he who liveth near
- 44:48Speaker 1: this wise man. Such sleep is contagious, even through a
- 44:54Speaker 1: thick wall. It is contagious. A magic resiteth even in
- 44:58Speaker 1: his academic chair. And not in vain did the youth
- 45:02Speaker 1: sit before the preacher of virtue. His wisdom is to
- 45:05Speaker 1: keep awake in order to sleep well and verily. If
- 45:10Speaker 1: life had no sense, and I had to choose nonsense,
- 45:14Speaker 1: this would be the desirablest nonsense for me. Also, now
- 45:19Speaker 1: know I well what people sought formerly above all else
- 45:23Speaker 1: when they sought teachers of virtue, good sleep. They sought
- 45:27Speaker 1: for themselves and poppyheaded virtues to promote it to all
- 45:31Speaker 1: those belotted stages of the academic chairs. Wisdom was sleep
- 45:35Speaker 1: without dreams. They knew no higher significance of life even
- 45:40Speaker 1: at present. To be sure, there are some like this
- 45:43Speaker 1: preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable. But their
- 45:47Speaker 1: time is past, and not much longer do they stand there.
- 45:52Speaker 1: They already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones, for they
- 45:57Speaker 1: shall soon nod to sleep. Thus spake Zarathustra, and of
- 46:05Speaker 1: Part one, Chapter two, Part one, Chapter three, Backworldsman. Once
- 46:13Speaker 1: on a time, Zarathustra also cast his fancy beyond man,
- 46:18Speaker 1: like all backworldsmen, the work of a suffering and tortured god.
- 46:22Speaker 1: Did the world then seem to me the dream and
- 46:26Speaker 1: diction of a god? Did the world then seem to
- 46:29Speaker 1: me colored vapors before the eyes of a divinely dissatisfied one,
- 46:35Speaker 1: good and evil, and joy and woe? And I and thou?
- 46:39Speaker 1: Colored vapors? Did they seem to me before creative eyes?
- 46:43Speaker 1: The creator wished to look away from himself. Thereupon he
- 46:48Speaker 1: created the world intoxicating joy. It is for the sufferer
- 46:52Speaker 1: to look away from his suffering and forget himself intoxicating
- 46:56Speaker 1: joy and self forgetting. Did the world once seem to me?
- 47:01Speaker 1: This world the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and
- 47:06Speaker 1: imperfect image an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator? Thus
- 47:11Speaker 1: did the world once seem to me? Thus, once on
- 47:16Speaker 1: a time did I also cast my fancy beyond man?
- 47:19Speaker 1: Like all backworldsmen beyond man forsooth ah ye, brethren, that
- 47:27Speaker 1: God whom I created was human work and human madness,
- 47:31Speaker 1: like all the gods. A man was he and only
- 47:34Speaker 1: a poor fragment of a man and ego. Out of
- 47:38Speaker 1: mine own ashes and glow, it came unto me that phantom.
- 47:42Speaker 1: And verily it came not unto me from the beyond.
- 47:46Speaker 1: What happened, my brethren, I surpassed myself, the suffering one.
- 47:51Speaker 1: I carried mine own ashes to the mountain. A brighter
- 47:54Speaker 1: flame I contrived for myself, and lo thereupon the phantom
- 47:59Speaker 1: withdrew from me to me the convalescent. Would it now
- 48:04Speaker 1: be suffering and torment to believe in such phantoms? Suffering?
- 48:08Speaker 1: Would it now be to me and humiliation? Thus speak
- 48:12Speaker 1: I to backworldsman suffering? Was it an impotence that created
- 48:18Speaker 1: all backworlds? And the short madness of happiness which only
- 48:22Speaker 1: the greatest sufferer experienceth weariness which seeketh to get to
- 48:28Speaker 1: the ultimate with one leap, with a death leap, A poor,
- 48:32Speaker 1: ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer, that created
- 48:37Speaker 1: all gods and backworlds. Believe me, my brethren, it was
- 48:42Speaker 1: the body which despaired of the body. It groped with
- 48:45Speaker 1: the fingers of the infatuated spirit at the ultimate walls.
- 48:50Speaker 1: Believe me, my brethren, it was the body which despaired
- 48:53Speaker 1: of the earth. It heard the bowels of existence speaking
- 48:57Speaker 1: unto it, and then it sought to get through the
- 49:00Speaker 1: ultimate walls with its head, and not with its head
- 49:04Speaker 1: only into the other world. But that other world is
- 49:10Speaker 1: well concealed from man, that dehumanized inhuman world, which is
- 49:14Speaker 1: a celestial knot. And the bowels of existence do not
- 49:18Speaker 1: speak unto man except as man. Verily, it is difficult
- 49:23Speaker 1: to prove all being, and hard to make it speak.
- 49:27Speaker 1: Tell me, ye, brethren, is not the strangest of all
- 49:30Speaker 1: things best proved? YEA, this ego, with its contradiction and perplexity,
- 49:37Speaker 1: speaketh most uprightly of its being, this creating, willing, evaluing ego,
- 49:43Speaker 1: which is the measure and value of things, And this
- 49:47Speaker 1: most upright existence, the ego. It speaketh of the body,
- 49:52Speaker 1: and still implieth the body, even when it museth and
- 49:56Speaker 1: raveth and fluttereth with broken wings. Always more uprightly learneth
- 50:01Speaker 1: it to speak the ego, And the more it learneth,
- 50:04Speaker 1: the more doth it find titles and honors for the
- 50:07Speaker 1: body and the earth. A new pride taught me mine ego,
- 50:12Speaker 1: And that teach I unto men no longer to thrust
- 50:15Speaker 1: one's head into the sand of celestial things, but to
- 50:19Speaker 1: carry it freely, a terrestrial head, which giveth meaning to
- 50:23Speaker 1: the earth. A new will I teach unto men to
- 50:28Speaker 1: choose that path which man hath followed blindly, and to
- 50:32Speaker 1: approve of it, and no longer slink aside from it,
- 50:36Speaker 1: like the sick and perishing. The sick and perishing. It
- 50:41Speaker 1: was they who despised the body and the earth, and
- 50:44Speaker 1: invented the heavenly world and the redeeming blood drops. But
- 50:49Speaker 1: even those sweet and sad poisons they borrowed from the
- 50:53Speaker 1: body and the earth. From their misery, they sought escape,
- 50:58Speaker 1: and the stars were too remote for them. Then they sighed, oh,
- 51:04Speaker 1: that there were heavenly paths by which to steal into
- 51:06Speaker 1: another existence and into happiness. Then they contrived for themselves
- 51:12Speaker 1: their bypaths and bloody drafts beyond the sphere of their
- 51:17Speaker 1: body and this earth. They now fancied themselves transported these
- 51:22Speaker 1: ungrateful ones. But to what did they owe the convulsion
- 51:26Speaker 1: and rapture of their transport to their body and this earth.
- 51:31Speaker 1: Gentle is Zarathustra to the sickly Verily, he is not
- 51:35Speaker 1: indulgent at their modes of consolation and ingratitude. May they
- 51:40Speaker 1: become convalescents and overcomers and create higher bodies for themselves.
- 51:45Speaker 1: Neither is Zarathusta indignant at a convalescent who looketh tenderly
- 51:49Speaker 1: on his delusions, and at midnight stealeth round the grave
- 51:53Speaker 1: of his God. But sickness and a sick frame remain
- 51:57Speaker 1: even in his tears. Sickly ones have there always been
- 52:01Speaker 1: among those who muse and languish for God violently. They
- 52:06Speaker 1: hate the discerning ones and the latest of virtues, which
- 52:10Speaker 1: is uprightness backward. They always gaze toward dark ages. Then,
- 52:17Speaker 1: indeed were delusion and faith something different. Raving of the
- 52:21Speaker 1: reason was likeness to God, and doubt was sin too well?
- 52:26Speaker 1: Do I know those god like ones? They insist on
- 52:29Speaker 1: being believed in, and that doubt is sin too well?
- 52:33Speaker 1: Also do I know what they themselves most believe in? Verily,
- 52:40Speaker 1: not in backworlds and redeeming blood drops, but in the body.
- 52:44Speaker 1: Do they also believe? Most and their own body is
- 52:49Speaker 1: for them the thing in itself, but it is a
- 52:52Speaker 1: sickly thing to them, and gladly would they get out
- 52:56Speaker 1: of their skin. Therefore, hearken they to the preachers of death,
- 53:00Speaker 1: and themselves preach backworlds. Hearken rather, my brethren, to the
- 53:06Speaker 1: voice of the healthy body. It is a more upright
- 53:11Speaker 1: and pure voice. More uprightly and purely speaketh the healthy body,
- 53:16Speaker 1: perfect and square built, And it speaketh of the meaning
- 53:21Speaker 1: of the earth. Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Part one,
- 53:31Speaker 1: Chapter three, Part one, Chapter four, The despisers of the body,
- 53:38Speaker 1: to the despisers of the body, will I speak my word?
- 53:42Speaker 1: I wish them neither to learn afresh nor teach anew,
- 53:45Speaker 1: but only to bid farewell to their own bodies. And
- 53:49Speaker 1: thus be dumb. Body am I, and soul? So saith
- 53:55Speaker 1: the child, And why should one not speak like children?
- 53:59Speaker 1: But then the knowing one saith Body am I entirely
- 54:05Speaker 1: and nothing more. And soul is only the name of
- 54:09Speaker 1: something in the body. The body is a big sagacity,
- 54:14Speaker 1: a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace,
- 54:19Speaker 1: a flock and a shepherd. An instrument of thy body
- 54:23Speaker 1: is also thy little sagacity, my brother, which thou callest
- 54:27Speaker 1: spirit a little instrument and plaything of thy big sagacity, Ego,
- 54:34Speaker 1: sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the
- 54:38Speaker 1: greater thing in which thou art unwilling to believe is
- 54:42Speaker 1: thy body, with its big sagacity. It's saith, not ego.
- 54:47Speaker 1: But doeth it what the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth.
- 54:52Speaker 1: Hath never its end in itself? But sense and spirit
- 54:56Speaker 1: would fain persuade thee that they are the end of
- 54:59Speaker 1: all things. So vain are they. Instruments and playthings are
- 55:04Speaker 1: a sense and spirit behind them. There is still the Self.
- 55:09Speaker 1: The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses. It
- 55:13Speaker 1: hearkeneth also with the ears of the Spirit. Ever hearkeneth
- 55:17Speaker 1: the Self and seeketh it compareth, mastereth, conquereth, and destroyeth.
- 55:23Speaker 1: It ruleth, and is also the ego's ruler behind thy
- 55:28Speaker 1: thoughts and feelings. My brother, there is a mighty lord,
- 55:32Speaker 1: an unknown sage. It is called self. It dwelleth in
- 55:37Speaker 1: thy body. It is thy body. There is more sagacity
- 55:42Speaker 1: in thy body than in thy best wisdom. And who
- 55:46Speaker 1: then knoweth why thy body requireth just thy best wisdom,
- 55:51Speaker 1: thyself laugheth at thy nego and its proud prancings. What
- 55:55Speaker 1: are these prancings and flights of thought? Unto me? It
- 55:58Speaker 1: saith to itself a by way to my purpose. I
- 56:02Speaker 1: am the leading string of the ego and the prompter
- 56:05Speaker 1: of its notions. The self saith unto the ego feel pain,
- 56:10Speaker 1: and thereupon it suffereth and thinketh how it might put
- 56:14Speaker 1: an end there too. And for that very purpose it
- 56:18Speaker 1: is meant to think. The self saith unto the ego
- 56:22Speaker 1: feel pleasure. Thereupon it rejoiceth and thinketh how it may
- 56:26Speaker 1: ofttimes rejoice. And for that very purpose it is meant
- 56:32Speaker 1: to think. To the despisers of the body, will I
- 56:35Speaker 1: speak a word that they despise is caused by their esteem?
- 56:40Speaker 1: What is it that created esteeming and despising and worth
- 56:43Speaker 1: and will? The creating self created for itself esteeming and despising.
- 56:50Speaker 1: It created for itself joy and woe. The creating body
- 56:54Speaker 1: created for itself spirit as a hand to its will.
- 57:00Speaker 1: In your folly and despising, ye each serve yourself, ye
- 57:03Speaker 1: despisers of the body. I tell you your very self wanteth
- 57:08Speaker 1: to die and turneth away from life. No longer can
- 57:14Speaker 1: yourself do that which it desireth most, create beyond itself,
- 57:19Speaker 1: that is what it desireth most, that is all its fervor.
- 57:24Speaker 1: But it is now too late to do so. So
- 57:27Speaker 1: yourself wisheth to succumb, Ye, despisers of the body, to succumb?
- 57:33Speaker 1: So wisheth yourself? And therefore have ye become despisers of
- 57:38Speaker 1: the body, For ye can no longer create beyond yourselves.
- 57:43Speaker 1: And therefore are ye now angry with life and with
- 57:46Speaker 1: the earth, And unconscious envy is in the sidelong look
- 57:52Speaker 1: of your contempt. I go not your way, ye, despisers
- 57:56Speaker 1: of the body. Ye are no bridges for me to
- 57:59Speaker 1: the Superman. Thus spake Zarathustra. And of Chapter four, Part one,
- 58:11Speaker 1: Chapter five, Joys and Passions, My brother, When thou hast
- 58:17Speaker 1: a virtue, and it is thine own virtue, thou hast
- 58:20Speaker 1: it in common with no one, to be sure, thou
- 58:24Speaker 1: wouldst call it by name and caress it. Thou wouldst
- 58:26Speaker 1: pull its ears and amuse thyself with it. And lo,
- 58:31Speaker 1: then hast thou its name in common with the people,
- 58:34Speaker 1: and hast become one of the people. And the herd
- 58:36Speaker 1: with thy virtue, better for thee to say, ineffable is
- 58:41Speaker 1: it and nameless that which is pain and sweetness to
- 58:44Speaker 1: my soul, and also the hunger of my bowels. Let
- 58:49Speaker 1: thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names,
- 58:53Speaker 1: And if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed
- 58:56Speaker 1: to stammer about it. Thus speak and stammer. That is
- 59:00Speaker 1: my good, that do I love? Thus doth it and
- 59:04Speaker 1: please me entirely. Thus only do I desire the good?
- 59:09Speaker 1: Not as the law of a god. Do I desire it?
- 59:12Speaker 1: Not as a human law or a human need? Do
- 59:15Speaker 1: I desire it? It is not to be a guidepost
- 59:18Speaker 1: for me to super earths and paradises. An earthly virtue
- 59:22Speaker 1: is it which I love? Little prudence is therein, and
- 59:26Speaker 1: the least everyday wisdom. But that bird built its nest
- 59:30Speaker 1: beside me. Therefore I love and cherish it. Now sitteth
- 59:36Speaker 1: it beside me on its golden eggs. Thus shouldst thou
- 59:40Speaker 1: stammer and praise thy virtue. Once hadst thou passions and
- 59:45Speaker 1: calledst them evil. But now hast thou only thy virtues.
- 59:50Speaker 1: They grew out of thy passions. Thou implantedest thy highest
- 59:56Speaker 1: aim into the heart of those passions. Then became they
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: thy virtues and joys. And though thou wert of the race,
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: of the hot tempered, or of the voluptuous, or of
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: the fanatical or the vindictive, all thy passions in the
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: end became virtues, and all thy devils angels. Once hadst
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: thou wild dogs in thy cellar, but they changed at
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: last into birds and charming songstresses. Out of thy poisons,
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: broodst thou balsam for thyself thy cow affliction milk'st Thou
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: now drinkest thou the sweet milk of her utter. And
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: nothing evil groweth in thee any longer, unless it be
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: the evil that groweth out of the conflict of thy virtues.
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: My brother, If thou be fortunate, then wilt thou have
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: one virtue and no more. Thus goest thou easier over
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: the bridge. Illustrious is it to have many virtues but
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: a hard lot, and many one hath gone into the
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: wilderness and killed himself because he was wary of being
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: the battle and battlefield of virtues, My brother, Are war
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: and battle evil necessary? However? Is the evil necessary? Are
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: the envy and the distrust and the backbiting among the virtues. Lo,
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: how each of thy virtues is covetous of the highest place.
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: It wanteth thy whole spirit to be its herald. It
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: wanteth thy whole power, and wrath, hatred and love. Jealous
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: is every virtue of the others, And a dreadful thing
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy. He whom
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: the flame of jealousy encompasseth turneth at last like the scorpion,
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: the poisoned sting against himself. Ah, my brother, hast thou
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: never seen a virtue backbite and stab itself. Man is
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: something that hath to be surpassed. And therefore shalt thou
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: love thy virtues, for thou wilt succumb by them. Thus
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: spake Zarathustra, Part.
- 1:02:12Speaker 3: One, Chapter six, the pale criminal. Ye do not mean
- 1:02:17Speaker 3: to slay ye judges and sacrificers. Until the animal hath
- 1:02:21Speaker 3: bowed its head. Lo, the pale criminal hath bowed his
- 1:02:25Speaker 3: head out of his eye, speaketh the great contempt Mine
- 1:02:29Speaker 3: ego is something which is to be surpassed. Mine ego
- 1:02:33Speaker 3: is to me the great contempt of man. So speaketh
- 1:02:36Speaker 3: it out of that eye when he judged himself. That
- 1:02:40Speaker 3: was his supreme moment. Let not the exalted one relapse
- 1:02:43Speaker 3: again into his low estate. There is no salvation for
- 1:02:47Speaker 3: him who thus suffereth from himself, unless it be speedy death.
- 1:02:52Speaker 3: You are slaying, ye, judges, shall be pity and not revenge.
- 1:02:56Speaker 3: And in that ye slay. See to it that ye
- 1:02:59Speaker 3: yourselves just by life. It is not enough that ye
- 1:03:02Speaker 3: should reconcile with him whom ye slay. Let your sorrow
- 1:03:06Speaker 3: be loved to the superman. Thus will ye justify your
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: own survival?
- 1:03:11Speaker 5: Enemy?
- 1:03:12Speaker 3: Shall ye say, but not villain? Invalid? Shall ye say,
- 1:03:15Speaker 3: but not wretch?
- 1:03:17Speaker 9: Fool?
- 1:03:17Speaker 3: Shall ye say, but not sinner? An thou read, judge,
- 1:03:21Speaker 3: If thou would say audibly all thou hast done in thought,
- 1:03:24Speaker 3: then would every one cry away with the nastiness and
- 1:03:27Speaker 3: the virulent reptile. But one thing is the thought. Another
- 1:03:31Speaker 3: thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea
- 1:03:34Speaker 3: of the deed. The weal of causality doth not roll
- 1:03:37Speaker 3: between them. An idea made this pale man pale adequate
- 1:03:42Speaker 3: was he for his deed when he did it, But
- 1:03:45Speaker 3: the idea of it he could not endure. When it
- 1:03:47Speaker 3: was done. Evermore, did he now see himself as the
- 1:03:51Speaker 3: doer of one deed madness? I call this the exception
- 1:03:55Speaker 3: reversed itself to the rule in him. The streak of
- 1:03:59Speaker 3: chalk bewitch the hen. The stroke he struck bewitched his
- 1:04:03Speaker 3: weak reason madness after the deed. I call this hearken. Ye, judges,
- 1:04:09Speaker 3: there is another madness besides, and it is before the deed. Ah,
- 1:04:14Speaker 3: Ye have not gone deep enough into this soul. Thus
- 1:04:17Speaker 3: speaketh the red judge. Why did this criminal commit murder?
- 1:04:21Speaker 3: He meant to rob? I tell you, however, that his
- 1:04:24Speaker 3: soul wanted blood, not booty. He thirsted for the happiness
- 1:04:27Speaker 3: of the knife. But his weak reason understood not this madness,
- 1:04:31Speaker 3: and it persuaded him. What matter about blood? It said,
- 1:04:35Speaker 3: wishest thou not at least to make booty thereby, or
- 1:04:38Speaker 3: take revenge? And he hearkened unto his weak reason like
- 1:04:42Speaker 3: lead lay its words upon him. Thereupon he robbed. When
- 1:04:46Speaker 3: he murdered. He did not mean to be ashamed of
- 1:04:49Speaker 3: his madness. And now once more lieth the lead of
- 1:04:53Speaker 3: his guilt upon him. And once more is his weak
- 1:04:56Speaker 3: reason so benumbed, so paralyzed, and so dull. Could he
- 1:05:00Speaker 3: only shake his head, then would his burden roll off?
- 1:05:03Speaker 3: But who shaketh that head? What is this man? A
- 1:05:07Speaker 3: mass of diseases that reach out into the world through
- 1:05:10Speaker 3: the spirit. There they wont to get their prey.
- 1:05:13Speaker 9: What is this man?
- 1:05:14Speaker 3: O coil of wild serpents that are seldom at peace
- 1:05:17Speaker 3: among themselves, So they go forth apart and seek prey
- 1:05:20Speaker 3: in the world. Look at that poor body, what it
- 1:05:23Speaker 3: suffered and craved? The poor soul interpreted to itself. It
- 1:05:27Speaker 3: interpreted it as murderous desire and eagerness for the happiness
- 1:05:31Speaker 3: of the knife. Him who now turneth sick. The evil overtaketh,
- 1:05:35Speaker 3: which is now the evil. He seeketh to cause pain
- 1:05:39Speaker 3: with that which causeth him pain. But there have been
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: other ages, and another evil and good. Once was doubt,
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: evil and the will to self. Then the invalid became
- 1:05:49Speaker 3: a heretic or sorcerer. As heretic or sorcerer, he suffered
- 1:05:53Speaker 3: and sought to cause suffering. But this will not enter
- 1:05:56Speaker 3: your ears. It hurteth your good people, ye tell me,
- 1:05:59Speaker 3: But what doth it matter to me about your good people?
- 1:06:03Speaker 3: Many things in your good people cause me disgust, and
- 1:06:06Speaker 3: verily not their evil. I would that they had a
- 1:06:08Speaker 3: madness by which they succumbed like this pale criminal. Verily,
- 1:06:12Speaker 3: I would that their madness were called truth, or fidelity
- 1:06:15Speaker 3: or justice. But they have their virtue in order to
- 1:06:18Speaker 3: live long and in wretched self complacency. I am a
- 1:06:22Speaker 3: railing alongside the torrent. Whoever is able to grasp me,
- 1:06:25Speaker 3: may grasp me your crutch. However I am not. Thus
- 1:06:29Speaker 3: spake Zarathustra. End of Part one, Chapter six, Part one,
- 1:06:40Speaker 3: Chapter seven. Reading and writing of all that is written,
- 1:06:44Speaker 3: I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
- 1:06:48Speaker 3: Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.
- 1:06:52Speaker 3: It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood. I
- 1:06:55Speaker 3: hate the reading idlers. He who knoweth the reader doeth
- 1:07:00Speaker 3: nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers, and
- 1:07:03Speaker 3: spirit itself will stink. Every One being allowed to learn
- 1:07:07Speaker 3: to read ruineth in the long run, not only writing,
- 1:07:10Speaker 3: but also thinking. Once spirit was God, then it became man,
- 1:07:15Speaker 3: and now it even becometh populous. He that writeth in
- 1:07:19Speaker 3: blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but
- 1:07:21Speaker 3: learnt by heart. In the mountains, the shortest way is
- 1:07:24Speaker 3: from peak to peak but for that route thou must
- 1:07:27Speaker 3: have long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken
- 1:07:31Speaker 3: to should be big and tall. The atmosphere rare and pure,
- 1:07:35Speaker 3: danger near, and the spirit fall of a joyful wickedness.
- 1:07:38Speaker 3: Thus are all things well matched. I want to have
- 1:07:41Speaker 3: goblins about me, for I am courageous. The courage which
- 1:07:44Speaker 3: scareth away ghosts, createth for itself goblins. It wanteth to laugh.
- 1:07:50Speaker 3: I no longer feel in common with you. The very
- 1:07:52Speaker 3: cloud which I see beneath me, the blackness and heaviness
- 1:07:55Speaker 3: at which I laugh, that is your thunder cloud. Ye
- 1:07:58Speaker 3: look aloft when ye long for exaltation, and I look
- 1:08:01Speaker 3: downward because I am exalted. Who among you can at
- 1:08:05Speaker 3: the same time laugh and be exalted? He who climmeth
- 1:08:08Speaker 3: on the highest mountains laugheth at all tragic plays and
- 1:08:11Speaker 3: tragic realities, courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive. So wisdom wisheth us.
- 1:08:19Speaker 3: She is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.
- 1:08:22Speaker 3: Ye tell me life is hard to bear, But for
- 1:08:25Speaker 3: what purpose should you have your pride in the morning
- 1:08:27Speaker 3: and your resignation in the evening. Life is hard to bear,
- 1:08:31Speaker 3: But do not affect to be so delicate. We are
- 1:08:33Speaker 3: all of us fine sumpter asses and asseses. What have
- 1:08:37Speaker 3: we in common with the rose bud which trembleth because
- 1:08:40Speaker 3: a drop of dew hath formed upon it? It is
- 1:08:43Speaker 3: true we love life, not because we are wont to live,
- 1:08:47Speaker 3: but because we are wont to love. There is always
- 1:08:50Speaker 3: some madness in love, but there is always also some
- 1:08:53Speaker 3: method in madness. And to me also who appreciate life,
- 1:08:57Speaker 3: the butterflies and soap bubbles and whatever is life, them
- 1:09:00Speaker 3: amongst us seem most to enjoy happiness. To see these
- 1:09:04Speaker 3: light foolish, pretty, lively little sprites flit about that move
- 1:09:08Speaker 3: is Zarathustra to tears and songs. I should only believe
- 1:09:12Speaker 3: in a god that would know how to dance. And
- 1:09:14Speaker 3: when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn.
- 1:09:19Speaker 3: He was the spirit of gravity. Through him all things fall,
- 1:09:22Speaker 3: not bry wrath. But by laughter do we slay? Come,
- 1:09:25Speaker 3: Let us slay the spirit of gravity. I learned to walk,
- 1:09:29Speaker 3: Since then I have let myself run. I learned to fly.
- 1:09:32Speaker 3: Since then I do not need pushing in order to
- 1:09:34Speaker 3: move from a spot. Now I am light. Now do
- 1:09:37Speaker 3: I fly? Now do I see myself under myself. Now
- 1:09:40Speaker 3: there danceth the God in me. Thus spake Zarathustra. End
- 1:09:45Speaker 3: of Part one, Chapter seven, Part one.
- 1:09:52Speaker 4: Chapter eight. The Tree on the hill. Zarathustra's eye had
- 1:09:58Speaker 4: perceived that a certain youth avoid him, and as he
- 1:10:01Speaker 4: walked alone one evening over the hills surrounding the town
- 1:10:04Speaker 4: called the Pied Cow, behold there he found the youth sitting,
- 1:10:09Speaker 4: leaning against a tree and gazing with a wearied look
- 1:10:12Speaker 4: into the valley. Zarathustra thereupon laid hold of the tree
- 1:10:16Speaker 4: beside which the youth sat, and spake, Thus, if I
- 1:10:20Speaker 4: wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should
- 1:10:22Speaker 4: not be able to do so. But the wind, which
- 1:10:26Speaker 4: we see not troubleth and bendeth as it listeth. We
- 1:10:29Speaker 4: are sorest bent and troubled by invisible hands. Thereupon the
- 1:10:34Speaker 4: youth arose disconcerted, and said, I hear Zarathustra, And just
- 1:10:37Speaker 4: now was I thinking of him? Zarathustra answered, why art
- 1:10:41Speaker 4: thou frightened on that account? But it is the same
- 1:10:44Speaker 4: with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh
- 1:10:46Speaker 4: to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously
- 1:10:49Speaker 4: do his root struggle earthward. Downward into the dark and
- 1:10:53Speaker 4: deep into the evil. Yea, into the evil, cried the youth.
- 1:10:58Speaker 4: How is it possible that thou thou hast discovered my soul?
- 1:11:02Speaker 4: Zarathustra smiled and said, many a soul one will never
- 1:11:06Speaker 4: discover unless one first invent it. Yea, into the evil,
- 1:11:09Speaker 4: cried the youth. Once more, thou sayst the truth, Zarathustra,
- 1:11:13Speaker 4: I trust myself no longer, since I sought to rise
- 1:11:16Speaker 4: into the height, and nobody trusteth me any longer. How
- 1:11:19Speaker 4: doth that happen? I changed too quickly? My to day
- 1:11:22Speaker 4: refuteth my yesterday. I often overleap the steps when I clamber.
- 1:11:26Speaker 4: For so doing, none of the steps pardons me. When aloft,
- 1:11:30Speaker 4: I find myself always alone. No one speaketh unto me.
- 1:11:33Speaker 4: The frost of solitude maketh me tremble. What do I
- 1:11:36Speaker 4: seek on the height? My contempt and longing increase together.
- 1:11:40Speaker 4: The higher I clamber, The more do I despise him
- 1:11:43Speaker 4: who clambereth? What doth he seek on the height? How
- 1:11:46Speaker 4: ashamed am I of my clambering and stumbling? How I
- 1:11:49Speaker 4: mock at my violent panting? How I hate him who flieth?
- 1:11:53Speaker 4: How tired am I on the height. Here the youth
- 1:11:56Speaker 4: was silent, and Zarathustra contemplated the tree beside which they stood,
- 1:12:01Speaker 4: and spake, Thus this tree standeth lonely up here on
- 1:12:05Speaker 4: the hills. It hath grown up high above man and beast,
- 1:12:08Speaker 4: And if it wanted to speak, it would have none
- 1:12:11Speaker 4: who could understand it. So high hath it grown. Now
- 1:12:14Speaker 4: it waiteth and waiteth for what doth it wait It
- 1:12:17Speaker 4: dwelleth too close to the seat of the clouds. It waiteth,
- 1:12:20Speaker 4: perhaps for the first lightning. When Zarathustra had said this,
- 1:12:25Speaker 4: the youth called out with violent gestures. Yea, Zarathustra, Thou
- 1:12:29Speaker 4: speakest the truth my destruction I longed for when I
- 1:12:32Speaker 4: desired to be on the height, And thou art the
- 1:12:35Speaker 4: lightning for which I waited. Lo, what have I been
- 1:12:37Speaker 4: since thou appeared amongst us? It is mine envy of
- 1:12:40Speaker 4: thee that hast destroyed me. Thus spake the youth, and
- 1:12:44Speaker 4: wept bitterly. Zarathustra, however, put his arm about him and
- 1:12:48Speaker 4: led the youth away with him, And when they had
- 1:12:51Speaker 4: walked awhile together, Zarathustra began to speak, Thus it rendeth
- 1:12:55Speaker 4: my heart better than thy words. Express it. Thine eyes
- 1:12:58Speaker 4: tell me all thy danger. As yet thou art not free,
- 1:13:02Speaker 4: Thou still seekest freedom. Too unslept, hath thy seeking made
- 1:13:06Speaker 4: thee and too wakeful on the open height? Wouldst thou
- 1:13:09Speaker 4: be for the stars? Thirsteth thy soul, but thy bad
- 1:13:13Speaker 4: impulses also thirst for freedom. Thy wild dogs want liberty.
- 1:13:17Speaker 4: They bark for joy in their cellar. When thy spirit
- 1:13:20Speaker 4: endeavoreth to open all prison doors. Still art thou a prisoner?
- 1:13:24Speaker 4: It seemeth to me, who deviseth liberty for himself. Ah
- 1:13:28Speaker 4: sharp becometh the soul of such prisoners, but also deceitful
- 1:13:31Speaker 4: and wicked. To purify himself is still necessary for the
- 1:13:35Speaker 4: freedmen of the spirit. Much of the prison and the
- 1:13:38Speaker 4: mold still remaineth in him pure hath his eyes still
- 1:13:41Speaker 4: to become YEA, I know thy danger, but by my
- 1:13:45Speaker 4: love and hope I conjure THEE. Cast not thy love
- 1:13:47Speaker 4: and hope away. Noble Thou feelest thyself still, and noble
- 1:13:51Speaker 4: others also feel THEE still, though they bear THEE a
- 1:13:54Speaker 4: grudge and cast evil looks. Know this that to everybody
- 1:13:58Speaker 4: a noble one standeth in the way. Also to the
- 1:14:01Speaker 4: good a noble one standeth in the way, and even
- 1:14:04Speaker 4: when they call him a good man, they want thereby
- 1:14:07Speaker 4: to put him aside. The new would the nobleman create
- 1:14:11Speaker 4: and a new virtue. The old wanteth the good man,
- 1:14:14Speaker 4: and that the old should be conserved. But it is
- 1:14:17Speaker 4: not the danger of the nobleman to turn a good man,
- 1:14:20Speaker 4: but lest he should become a blusterer, a scoffer, or
- 1:14:22Speaker 4: a destroyer. Ah, I have no noble ones who lost
- 1:14:26Speaker 4: their highest hope, and then they disparaged all high hopes.
- 1:14:30Speaker 4: Then lived they shamelessly in temporary pleasures, and beyond the
- 1:14:34Speaker 4: day had hardly an aim. Spirit is also voluptuousness. Said
- 1:14:38Speaker 4: they then broke the wings of their spirit, and now
- 1:14:41Speaker 4: it creepeth about and defileth where it gnaweth. Once they
- 1:14:45Speaker 4: thought of becoming heroes. But sensualists are they now a
- 1:14:48Speaker 4: trouble and a terror is a hero to them. But
- 1:14:51Speaker 4: by my love and hope I conjure thee cast not
- 1:14:54Speaker 4: away the hero in thy soul. Maintain wholly thy highest hope.
- 1:14:58Speaker 4: Thus spake Sarath Sustra. End of Part one, Chapter eight.
- 1:15:08Speaker 3: Part one, Chapter nine. The preachers of death. There are
- 1:15:13Speaker 3: preachers of death, and the earth is full of those
- 1:15:16Speaker 3: to whom desistance from life must be preached. Full is
- 1:15:20Speaker 3: the earth of the superfluous. Marred is life by the many,
- 1:15:23Speaker 3: too many. May they be decoyed out of this life
- 1:15:26Speaker 3: by the life eternal. The yellow ones so are called
- 1:15:30Speaker 3: the preachers of death or the black ones, But I
- 1:15:33Speaker 3: will show them unto you and other colors. Besides, there
- 1:15:36Speaker 3: are the terrible ones, who carry about in themselves the
- 1:15:39Speaker 3: beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or
- 1:15:42Speaker 3: self laceration. And even their lusts are self laceration. They
- 1:15:47Speaker 3: have not yet become men. Those terrible ones. May they
- 1:15:50Speaker 3: preach desistance from life and pass away themselves. There are
- 1:15:54Speaker 3: the spiritually consumptive ones. Hardly are they born. When they
- 1:15:58Speaker 3: begin to die and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation,
- 1:16:02Speaker 3: they would fain be dead, and we should approve of
- 1:16:04Speaker 3: their wish. Let us beware of awakening those dead ones,
- 1:16:08Speaker 3: and of damaging those living coffins. They meet an invalid,
- 1:16:11Speaker 3: or an old man, or a corpse, and immediately they
- 1:16:14Speaker 3: say life is refuted. But they only are refuted, and
- 1:16:18Speaker 3: their eye which seeth only one aspect of existence, shrouded
- 1:16:22Speaker 3: in thick melancholy and eager for the little casualties that
- 1:16:26Speaker 3: bring death. Thus do they wait and clench their teeth,
- 1:16:30Speaker 3: or else they grasp at sweetmeats and mock at their childishness.
- 1:16:33Speaker 3: Thereby they cling to their straw of life and mock it.
- 1:16:36Speaker 3: Their still clinging to it, their wisdom speaketh, thus a
- 1:16:40Speaker 3: fool he who remaineth alive. But so far are we fools,
- 1:16:44Speaker 3: And that is the foolishest thing in life. Life is
- 1:16:47Speaker 3: only suffering, so say others, and lie not. Then see
- 1:16:51Speaker 3: to it that ye cease, see to it that the
- 1:16:53Speaker 3: life ceaseth which is only suffering. And let this be
- 1:16:57Speaker 3: the teaching of your virtue. Thou shalt slay thyself. Thou
- 1:17:00Speaker 3: shalt steal away from thyself. Lust is sin, so say
- 1:17:04Speaker 3: some who preach death. Let us go apart and beget
- 1:17:07Speaker 3: no children. Giving birth is troublesome, say others. Why still
- 1:17:12Speaker 3: give birth? One beareth only the unfortunate, And they also
- 1:17:15Speaker 3: are preachers of death. Pity is necessary, So saith a
- 1:17:19Speaker 3: third party. Take what I have, Take what I am.
- 1:17:23Speaker 3: So much less doth life bind me? Were they consistently pitiful,
- 1:17:27Speaker 3: then would they make their neighbors sick of life? To
- 1:17:30Speaker 3: be wicked. That would be their true goodness. But they
- 1:17:33Speaker 3: want to be rid of life? What care they if
- 1:17:35Speaker 3: they bind others still faster with their chains and gifts.
- 1:17:39Speaker 3: And ye also to whom life is rough, labor and disquiet,
- 1:17:42Speaker 3: are ye not very tired of life? Are ye not
- 1:17:45Speaker 3: very ripe for the sermon of death?
- 1:17:47Speaker 8: All?
- 1:17:47Speaker 3: Ye to whom rough labor is dear, and the rapid,
- 1:17:50Speaker 3: new and strange, ye put up with yourselves badly. Your
- 1:17:53Speaker 3: diligence is flight and the will to self forgetfulness. If
- 1:17:57Speaker 3: ye believed more in life, then would ye devote yourselves
- 1:17:59Speaker 3: less to the momentary. But for waiting, ye have not
- 1:18:03Speaker 3: enough of capacity in you, not even for idling. Everywhere
- 1:18:07Speaker 3: resoundeth the voices of those who preach death, And the
- 1:18:09Speaker 3: earth is full of those to whom death hath to
- 1:18:12Speaker 3: be preached, or life eternal. It is all the same
- 1:18:15Speaker 3: to me, if only they pass away quickly. Thus spake Zarathustra.
- 1:18:20Speaker 3: End of Part one, Chapter nine, Part.
- 1:18:27Speaker 4: One, Chapter ten, War and Warriors. By our best enemies,
- 1:18:34Speaker 4: we do not want to be spared, nor by those either,
- 1:18:37Speaker 4: whom we love from the very heart. So let me
- 1:18:39Speaker 4: tell you the truth, my brethren in more. I love
- 1:18:44Speaker 4: you from the very heart. I am and was ever
- 1:18:47Speaker 4: your counterpart, and I am also your best enemy. So
- 1:18:50Speaker 4: let me tell you the truth. I know the hatred
- 1:18:53Speaker 4: and envy of your hearts. You are not great enough
- 1:18:56Speaker 4: not to know of hatred and envy, then be great
- 1:18:59Speaker 4: enough not to be ashamed of them. And if you
- 1:19:01Speaker 4: cannot be saints of knowledge, then I pray you be
- 1:19:04Speaker 4: at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners
- 1:19:08Speaker 4: of such saintship. I see many soldiers, could I but
- 1:19:12Speaker 4: see many warriors uniform? One calleth what they wear? May
- 1:19:16Speaker 4: it not be uniform what they therewith hide. Ye shall
- 1:19:19Speaker 4: be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy, for
- 1:19:22Speaker 4: your enemy, and with some of you there is hatred
- 1:19:25Speaker 4: at first sight your enemy. Shall you seek your war?
- 1:19:29Speaker 4: Shall you wage, and for the sake of your thoughts,
- 1:19:32Speaker 4: And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph.
- 1:19:35Speaker 4: Thereby ye shall love peace as a means to new wars,
- 1:19:40Speaker 4: and the short peace more than the long. You I
- 1:19:43Speaker 4: advise not to work but to fight.
- 1:19:45Speaker 7: You.
- 1:19:46Speaker 4: I advise not to peace but to victory. Let your
- 1:19:49Speaker 4: work be a fight, Let your peace be a victory.
- 1:19:52Speaker 4: One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one
- 1:19:55Speaker 4: hath arrow and bow. Otherwise one prayeth and quarreleth. Let
- 1:19:59Speaker 4: your peace be of victory. Ye say, it is the
- 1:20:01Speaker 4: good cause which halloweth. Even more I say unto you,
- 1:20:05Speaker 4: it is the good war which halloweth every cause. War
- 1:20:08Speaker 4: and courage have done more great things than charity. Not
- 1:20:11Speaker 4: your sympathy, but your bravery hath hitherto saved the victims.
- 1:20:15Speaker 4: What is good you ask to be brave is good.
- 1:20:18Speaker 4: Let the little girls say, to be good is what
- 1:20:20Speaker 4: is pretty and at the same time touching. They call
- 1:20:23Speaker 4: you heartless, But your heart is true, and I love
- 1:20:26Speaker 4: the bashfulness of your good will. You are ashamed of
- 1:20:29Speaker 4: your flow, and others are ashamed of their ebb You
- 1:20:32Speaker 4: are ugly, Well, then, my brethren, take the sublime about you,
- 1:20:36Speaker 4: the mantle of the ugly. And when your soul becometh great,
- 1:20:39Speaker 4: then doth it become haughty? And in your sublimity there
- 1:20:42Speaker 4: is wickedness.
- 1:20:44Speaker 9: I know you.
- 1:20:45Speaker 4: In wickedness, the haughty man and the weakling meet, but
- 1:20:49Speaker 4: they misunderstand one another. I know you. You shall have
- 1:20:53Speaker 4: only enemies to be hated, but not enemies to be despised.
- 1:20:57Speaker 4: You must be proud of your enemies. Then the successes
- 1:21:00Speaker 4: of your enemies are also your successes resistance. That is
- 1:21:05Speaker 4: the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience.
- 1:21:09Speaker 4: Let your commanding itself be obeying to the good warrior.
- 1:21:13Speaker 4: Soundeth thou shalt pleasanter than I will, And all that
- 1:21:16Speaker 4: is dear unto you, ye shall have it first commanded
- 1:21:19Speaker 4: unto you. Let your love to life be loved to
- 1:21:22Speaker 4: your highest hope. And let your highest hope be the
- 1:21:24Speaker 4: highest thought of life, your highest thought. However, ye shall
- 1:21:28Speaker 4: have it commanded unto you by me. And it is
- 1:21:31Speaker 4: this man is something that is to be surpassed. So
- 1:21:35Speaker 4: live your life of obedience and of war. What matter
- 1:21:39Speaker 4: about long life? What warrior wisheth to be spared? I
- 1:21:42Speaker 4: spare you not. I love you from my very heart,
- 1:21:45Speaker 4: my brethren in war. Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Part one,
- 1:21:51Speaker 4: Chapter ten, Part one, Chapter eleven, The New Idol. Somewhere
- 1:22:06Speaker 4: there are still peoples and herds, but not with us,
- 1:22:09Speaker 4: my brethren. Here there are states, a state. What is that? Well?
- 1:22:17Speaker 4: Open now your ears unto me? For now will I
- 1:22:20Speaker 4: say unto you my word concerning the death of peoples.
- 1:22:24Speaker 4: A state is called the coldest of all cold monsters.
- 1:22:27Speaker 4: Coldly lieth it also, and this lie creepeth from its mouth.
- 1:22:31Speaker 4: I the state am the people. It is a lie.
- 1:22:36Speaker 4: Creators were they who created peoples and hung a faith
- 1:22:40Speaker 4: and a love over them. Thus they served life. Destroyers
- 1:22:44Speaker 4: are they who lay snares for many and calleth the state.
- 1:22:47Speaker 4: They hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them
- 1:22:51Speaker 4: where there is still a people there. The state is
- 1:22:53Speaker 4: not understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as
- 1:22:57Speaker 4: sin against law and customs. This sign I give unto you.
- 1:23:01Speaker 4: Every people speaketh its language of good and evil. This
- 1:23:05Speaker 4: its neighbor understandeth not its language. Hath it devised for
- 1:23:09Speaker 4: itself in laws and customs. But the state lieth in
- 1:23:13Speaker 4: all languages of good and evil. And whatever it saith,
- 1:23:16Speaker 4: it lieth. And whatever it hath it hath stolen. False.
- 1:23:20Speaker 4: Is everything in it with stolen teeth. It biteth the
- 1:23:23Speaker 4: biting one false, even are its bowels. Confusion of language
- 1:23:27Speaker 4: of good and evil. This sign I give unto you
- 1:23:29Speaker 4: is the sign of the state. Verily the will to
- 1:23:31Speaker 4: death indicateth this sign. Verily it beckoneth under the preachers
- 1:23:35Speaker 4: of death. Many too many are born for the superfluous
- 1:23:39Speaker 4: ones with the state devised. See just how it enticeth
- 1:23:43Speaker 4: them to it, the many too many, how it swalloweth
- 1:23:46Speaker 4: and cheweth and recheweth them on earth. There is nothing
- 1:23:51Speaker 4: greater than I. It is I who am the regulating
- 1:23:53Speaker 4: finger of God. Thus roreth the monster, and not only
- 1:23:57Speaker 4: the long eard and short sighted fall upon their knee.
- 1:24:00Speaker 7: Ah.
- 1:24:01Speaker 4: Even in your ears, ye great souls, it whispereth its
- 1:24:03Speaker 4: gloomy lies.
- 1:24:05Speaker 8: Ah.
- 1:24:05Speaker 4: It findeth out the rich hearts which willingly lavish themselves. Yea,
- 1:24:09Speaker 4: it findeth you out, too, ye conquerors of the old God.
- 1:24:12Speaker 4: Weary he became because of the conflict. And now your
- 1:24:16Speaker 4: weariness serveth the new Idol. Heroes and honorable ones. It
- 1:24:20Speaker 4: would fain set up around it, the new Idol. Gladly
- 1:24:23Speaker 4: it basketh in the sunshine of good consciences. The cold monster.
- 1:24:27Speaker 4: Everything will it give you if you worship it the
- 1:24:31Speaker 4: new Idol. Thus it purchaseth the luster of your virtue
- 1:24:35Speaker 4: and the glance of your proud eyes. It seeketh to
- 1:24:39Speaker 4: allure by means of you, the many too many yea,
- 1:24:43Speaker 4: a hellish artifice. Hath here been devised a death horse,
- 1:24:47Speaker 4: jingling with the trappings of divine honors? Yea, A dying
- 1:24:50Speaker 4: for many? Hath here been devised which glorifieth itself as life, verily,
- 1:24:56Speaker 4: a hearty service unto all preachers of death. The state
- 1:25:00Speaker 4: I call it where all are poisoned drinkers, the good
- 1:25:03Speaker 4: and the bad. The state where all lose themselves, the
- 1:25:06Speaker 4: good and the bad. The state where the slow suicide
- 1:25:09Speaker 4: of all is called life. Just see these superfluous ones.
- 1:25:13Speaker 4: They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures
- 1:25:15Speaker 4: of the wise culture. They call their theft, and everything
- 1:25:19Speaker 4: becometh sickness and trouble unto them, Just see these superfluous ones.
- 1:25:23Speaker 4: Sick are they always? They vomit their bile and call
- 1:25:26Speaker 4: it a newspaper. They devour one another and cannot even
- 1:25:29Speaker 4: digest themselves. Just see these superfluous ones. Wealth they acquire
- 1:25:34Speaker 4: and become poorer. Thereby power they seek for, and above all,
- 1:25:37Speaker 4: the lever of power much money. These impotent ones. See
- 1:25:42Speaker 4: them clamber, these nimble apes. They clamber over one another,
- 1:25:45Speaker 4: and then scuffle into the mud and the abyss towards
- 1:25:48Speaker 4: the throne. They all strive. It is their madness, as
- 1:25:52Speaker 4: if happiness sat on the throne. Ofttimes setteth filth on
- 1:25:55Speaker 4: the throne, and ofttimes also the throne on filth. They
- 1:26:00Speaker 4: all seem to me, and clambering apes, and too eager
- 1:26:03Speaker 4: badly smellth their idle to meet the cold monster. Badly
- 1:26:06Speaker 4: they all smell to me, these idolaters, my brethren, Will
- 1:26:10Speaker 4: you suffocate in the fumes of their maws and appetites.
- 1:26:13Speaker 4: Better break the windows and jump into the open air.
- 1:26:16Speaker 4: Do go out of the way of the bad odor,
- 1:26:19Speaker 4: withdraw from the idolatry of the superfluous. Do go out
- 1:26:22Speaker 4: of the way of the bad odor, withdraw from the
- 1:26:25Speaker 4: steam of these human sacrifices. Opens still remaineth the earth
- 1:26:29Speaker 4: for great souls. Empty, are still many sights for lone
- 1:26:32Speaker 4: ones and twain ones around which floateth the odor of
- 1:26:35Speaker 4: tranquil seas. Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily,
- 1:26:41Speaker 4: he who possesseth little is so much more the less
- 1:26:44Speaker 4: possessed blessed be moderate poverty. There Where the state ceaseth
- 1:26:50Speaker 4: Their only commenceth the man who is not superfluous. There
- 1:26:54Speaker 4: commenceth the song of the necessary ones, the single and
- 1:26:57Speaker 4: irreplaceable melody. There where the state ceaseth. Pray. Look thither,
- 1:27:03Speaker 4: my brethren, do you not see it? The rainbow and
- 1:27:06Speaker 4: the bridges of the superman. Thus spake Zarathustra. End of
- 1:27:14Speaker 4: Part one, Chapter eleven.
- 1:27:22Speaker 3: Part one, Chapter twelve. The flies in the marketplace flee,
- 1:27:27Speaker 3: my friend, into thy solitude. I see thee deafened with
- 1:27:30Speaker 3: the noise of the great men, and stung all over
- 1:27:32Speaker 3: with the stings of the little ones. Admirably do forest
- 1:27:36Speaker 3: and rock know how to be silent with thee? Resemble
- 1:27:39Speaker 3: again the tree which thou lovest, the broad branched one,
- 1:27:42Speaker 3: silently and attentively. It o'er hangeth the sea. Where solitude endeth,
- 1:27:47Speaker 3: there beginneth the marketplace. And where the marketplace beginneth, there
- 1:27:50Speaker 3: beginneth also the noise of the great actors and the
- 1:27:53Speaker 3: buzzing of the poison flies. In the world. Even the
- 1:27:56Speaker 3: best things are worthless without those who represent them. Those
- 1:28:00Speaker 3: representers the people call great men. Little do the people
- 1:28:04Speaker 3: understand what is great, that is to say, the creating agency.
- 1:28:09Speaker 3: But they have a taste for all representers and actors
- 1:28:11Speaker 3: of great things around the devisers of new values revolveth
- 1:28:16Speaker 3: the world invisibly it revolveth, But around the actors revolve
- 1:28:20Speaker 3: the people and the glory. Such is the course of things.
- 1:28:24Speaker 3: Spirit hath the actor, but little conscience of the spirit.
- 1:28:27Speaker 3: He believeth always in that wherewith he maketh believe most
- 1:28:31Speaker 3: strongly in himself. Tomorrow he hath a new belief, and
- 1:28:35Speaker 3: the day after one still newer sharp perceptions. Hath he,
- 1:28:38Speaker 3: like the people and changeable humors, to upset, That meaneth
- 1:28:43Speaker 3: with him to prove, to drive mad, that meaneth with
- 1:28:46Speaker 3: him to convince. And blood is counted by him as
- 1:28:48Speaker 3: the best of all arguments, a truth which only glideth
- 1:28:52Speaker 3: into fine ears. He calleth falsehood and trumpery. Verily, he
- 1:28:56Speaker 3: believeth only in gods that make a great noise in
- 1:28:58Speaker 3: the world fallow clattering buffoons is the market place, and
- 1:29:02Speaker 3: the people glory in their great men. These are for
- 1:29:05Speaker 3: them the masters of the hour. But the hour presseth them,
- 1:29:09Speaker 3: so they press thee, and also from thee they want
- 1:29:12Speaker 3: yea or nay alas thou wouldst set thy chair betwixt
- 1:29:16Speaker 3: fore and against on account of those absolute and impatient ones,
- 1:29:20Speaker 3: be not jealous, thou lover of truth. Never yet did
- 1:29:24Speaker 3: truth cling to the arm of an absolute one. On
- 1:29:27Speaker 3: account of those abrupt ones, return into thy security. Only
- 1:29:32Speaker 3: in the market place is one assailed by yea or nay.
- 1:29:35Speaker 3: Slow is the experience of all deep fountains. Long have
- 1:29:39Speaker 3: they to wait until they know what hath fallen into
- 1:29:41Speaker 3: their depths. Away from the market place and from fame
- 1:29:45Speaker 3: taketh place all that is great. Away from the market
- 1:29:48Speaker 3: place and from fame have ever dwelt the devisors of
- 1:29:51Speaker 3: new values. Flee, my friend, into thy solitude. I see
- 1:29:55Speaker 3: thee stung all over by the poisonous flies. Flee thither
- 1:29:58Speaker 3: where a rough, strong breeze blow. Flee into thy solitude.
- 1:30:02Speaker 3: Thou hast lived too closely to the small and the pitiable.
- 1:30:06Speaker 3: Flee from their invisible vengeance towards thee. They have nothing
- 1:30:09Speaker 3: but vengeance, raise no longer an arm against them. Innumerable
- 1:30:14Speaker 3: are they, and it is not thy lot to be
- 1:30:16Speaker 3: a fly flap. Innumerable are the small and pitiable ones,
- 1:30:20Speaker 3: and of many a proud structure, rain drops and weeds
- 1:30:22Speaker 3: have been the ruin. Thou art not stone, but already
- 1:30:26Speaker 3: hast thou become hollow by the numerous drops. Thou wilt
- 1:30:29Speaker 3: yet break and burst by the numerous drops. Exhausted, I
- 1:30:33Speaker 3: see THEE by poisonous flies, bleeding. I see THEE and
- 1:30:36Speaker 3: torn at a hundred spots. And thy pride will not
- 1:30:39Speaker 3: even upbraid. Blood they would have from THEE in all innocence.
- 1:30:44Speaker 3: Blood their bloodless souls crave for, and they sting therefore
- 1:30:47Speaker 3: in all innocence. But thou profound one, Thou sufferest too profoundly,
- 1:30:52Speaker 3: even from small wounds. And ere thou hadst recovered the
- 1:30:55Speaker 3: same poison worm crawled over thy hand.
- 1:30:58Speaker 5: Too.
- 1:30:59Speaker 3: Proud art thou kill thee sweet tooths? But take care
- 1:31:02Speaker 3: lest it be thy fate to suffer all their poisonous
- 1:31:04Speaker 3: and justice. They buzz around THEE also with their praise.
- 1:31:09Speaker 3: Obtrusiveness is their praise. They want to be close to
- 1:31:12Speaker 3: thy skin and thy blood. They flatter THEE as one
- 1:31:15Speaker 3: flattereth a god or devil. They whimper before THEE as
- 1:31:18Speaker 3: before a god or devil? What doth it come to flatterers?
- 1:31:22Speaker 3: Are they and whimperers? And nothing more? Often? Also do
- 1:31:26Speaker 3: they show themselves to THEE as amiable ones. But that
- 1:31:29Speaker 3: hath ever been the prudence of the cowardly yea they
- 1:31:32Speaker 3: cowardly are wise. They think much about THEE with their
- 1:31:35Speaker 3: circumscribed souls. Thou art always suspected by them. Whatever is
- 1:31:39Speaker 3: much thought about is at last thought suspicious. They punish
- 1:31:43Speaker 3: THEE for all thy virtues. They pardon THEE in their
- 1:31:46Speaker 3: inmost hearts only for thine errors. Because thou art gentle
- 1:31:50Speaker 3: and of upright character, Thou sayest blameless are they for
- 1:31:53Speaker 3: their small existence? But their circumscribed souls think blameable is
- 1:31:57Speaker 3: all great existence. Even when thou art gentle towards them,
- 1:32:01Speaker 3: they still feel themselves despised by THEE, and they repay
- 1:32:04Speaker 3: Thy beneficence with secret maleficence. Thy silent pride is always
- 1:32:09Speaker 3: counter to their taste. They rejoice if once thou be
- 1:32:12Speaker 3: humble enough to be frivolous, what we recognize in a man,
- 1:32:16Speaker 3: we also irritate in him. Therefore, be on your guard
- 1:32:19Speaker 3: against the small ones. In thy presence. They feel themselves small,
- 1:32:23Speaker 3: and their baseness gleameth and gloweth against THEE in invisible vengeance.
- 1:32:27Speaker 3: Sawest thou not how often they became dumb when Thou
- 1:32:29Speaker 3: approachest them, and how their energy left them like the
- 1:32:33Speaker 3: smoke of an extinguishing fire. Yea, my friend, the bad
- 1:32:36Speaker 3: conscience art thou of thy neighbors, For they are unworthy
- 1:32:39Speaker 3: of THEE. Therefore they hate THEE, and would fain suck
- 1:32:42Speaker 3: thy blood. Thy neighbors will always be poisonous flies. What
- 1:32:46Speaker 3: is great in THEE that itself must make them more
- 1:32:48Speaker 3: poisonous and always more fly like flee, my friend, into
- 1:32:52Speaker 3: thy solitude, and thither where a rough, strong breeze bloweth.
- 1:32:56Speaker 3: It is not thy lot to be a fly flap.
- 1:32:59Speaker 3: Thus spakes Zarathustra. End of Part one, Chapter twelve, Part one,
- 1:33:05Speaker 3: Chapter thirteen, Chastity. I love the forest. It is bad
- 1:33:10Speaker 3: to live in cities. There there are too many of
- 1:33:13Speaker 3: the lustful. Is it not better to fall into the
- 1:33:16Speaker 3: hands of a murderer than into the dreams of a
- 1:33:18Speaker 3: lustful woman? And just look at these men. Their eye
- 1:33:22Speaker 3: saith it they know nothing better on earth than to
- 1:33:24Speaker 3: lie with a woman. Filth is at the bottom of
- 1:33:27Speaker 3: their souls. And alas if their filth has still spirit
- 1:33:30Speaker 3: in it would that you were perfect at least as animals.
- 1:33:34Speaker 3: But to animals belongeth innocence. Do I counsel you to
- 1:33:38Speaker 3: slay your instincts, I counsel you to innocence. In your instincts,
- 1:33:42Speaker 3: do I counsel you to chastity. Chastity is a virtue
- 1:33:45Speaker 3: with some, but with many almost device these are continent,
- 1:33:49Speaker 3: to be sure, But doggish lust looketh enviously out of
- 1:33:52Speaker 3: all that they do, even into the heights of their virtue,
- 1:33:56Speaker 3: and into their cold spirit? Doth this creature follow them
- 1:33:59Speaker 3: with its discord? And how nicely can doggish lust beg
- 1:34:02Speaker 3: for a piece of spirit when a piece of flesh
- 1:34:05Speaker 3: is denied it? Ye love tragedies and all that breaketh
- 1:34:08Speaker 3: the heart. But I am distrustful of your doggish lust.
- 1:34:12Speaker 3: Ye have two cruel eyes, and ye look wantonly toward
- 1:34:15Speaker 3: the sufferers. Hath not your lust just disguised itself and
- 1:34:19Speaker 3: taking the name of fellow suffering? And also this parable
- 1:34:23Speaker 3: give I unto you. Not a few who meant to
- 1:34:25Speaker 3: cast out their devil went thereby into the swine themselves.
- 1:34:29Speaker 3: To whom chastity is difficult. It is to be dissuaded,
- 1:34:33Speaker 3: lest it become the road to hell, to filth and
- 1:34:35Speaker 3: lust of soul? Do I speak of filthy things? That
- 1:34:39Speaker 3: is not the worst thing for me to do not
- 1:34:41Speaker 3: when the truth is filthy, But when it is shallow,
- 1:34:44Speaker 3: doth the discerning one go unwillingly into its waters? Verily
- 1:34:48Speaker 3: there are chaste ones. From their very nature. They are
- 1:34:50Speaker 3: gentler of heart, and laugh better and oftener than you.
- 1:34:54Speaker 3: They laugh also at chastity, and ask what is chastity?
- 1:34:57Speaker 3: Is chastity not folly? But the the folly came unto us,
- 1:35:01Speaker 3: and not we unto it. We offered that guest harbor
- 1:35:04Speaker 3: and hart. Now it dwelleth within us. Let it stay
- 1:35:07Speaker 3: as long as it will. Thus spake Zarathustra. End of
- 1:35:12Speaker 3: Part one, Chapter thirteen.
- 1:35:16Speaker 10: Part one, Chapter fourteen. The friend one is always too
- 1:35:22Speaker 10: many about me, thinketh the anchor, write, always once one
- 1:35:28Speaker 10: that makes two in the long run. I and me
- 1:35:32Speaker 10: are always too earnestly in conversation. How could it be
- 1:35:36Speaker 10: endured if there were not a friend? The friend of
- 1:35:39Speaker 10: the anchor, write, is always the third one. The third
- 1:35:42Speaker 10: one is the cork which preventeth the conversation of the
- 1:35:45Speaker 10: two sinking into the depths. Ah, there are too many
- 1:35:50Speaker 10: depths for all anchorites. Therefore do they long so much
- 1:35:54Speaker 10: for a friend and for his elevation? Our faith in
- 1:35:59Speaker 10: others betray wherein we would fain have faith in ourselves.
- 1:36:04Speaker 10: Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often
- 1:36:09Speaker 10: with our love we want merely to overleap envy. And
- 1:36:13Speaker 10: often we attack and make ourselves enemies to conceal that
- 1:36:17Speaker 10: we are vulnerable, be at least mine enemy. Thus speaketh
- 1:36:24Speaker 10: the true reverence, which does not venture to solicit friendship.
- 1:36:29Speaker 10: If one would have a friend, then must one also
- 1:36:32Speaker 10: be willing to wage war for him. And in order
- 1:36:36Speaker 10: to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.
- 1:36:41Speaker 10: One ought still to honor the enemy in one's friend.
- 1:36:45Speaker 10: Canst thou go nigh unto thy friend and not go
- 1:36:48Speaker 10: over to him? In one's friend, one shall have one's
- 1:36:52Speaker 10: best enemy. Thou shalt be closest unto him with thy heart,
- 1:36:56Speaker 10: when thou withstandest him, Thou wouldst wear no raiment before
- 1:37:01Speaker 10: thy friend. It is in honor of thy friend that
- 1:37:05Speaker 10: thou ShoWest thyself to him, as thou art. But he
- 1:37:09Speaker 10: wishest thee to the devil. On that account, he who
- 1:37:13Speaker 10: maketh no secret of himself shocketh so much reason have
- 1:37:17Speaker 10: ye to fear nakedness?
- 1:37:19Speaker 9: Aye?
- 1:37:19Speaker 10: If ye were gods, ye could then be ashamed of clothing.
- 1:37:24Speaker 10: Thou canst not adorn thyself fine enough for thy friend,
- 1:37:28Speaker 10: For thou shalt be unto him an arrow and a
- 1:37:31Speaker 10: longing for the superman. Sawest thou ever thy friend asleep,
- 1:37:37Speaker 10: to know how he looketh? What is usually the countenance
- 1:37:41Speaker 10: of thy friend? It is thine own countenance in a
- 1:37:45Speaker 10: coarse and imperfect mirror. Sawest thou, ever thy friend asleep.
- 1:37:52Speaker 10: Wert thou not dismayed at thy friend looking so o?
- 1:37:56Speaker 10: My friend? Man is something that hath to be supposed
- 1:38:02Speaker 10: in divining and keeping silence? Shall the friend be a master?
- 1:38:06Speaker 10: Not everything must thou wish to see thy dream shall
- 1:38:11Speaker 10: disclose unto thee what thy friend doeth when awake. Let
- 1:38:16Speaker 10: thy pity be a divining to know first, if thy
- 1:38:20Speaker 10: friend wanteth pity, perhaps he loveth in thee the unmoved
- 1:38:24Speaker 10: eye and the look of eternity. Let thy pity for
- 1:38:28Speaker 10: thy friend be hid under a hard shell. Thou shalt
- 1:38:32Speaker 10: bite out a tooth upon it. Thus will it have
- 1:38:36Speaker 10: delicacy and sweetness. Art thou pure air and solitude and
- 1:38:41Speaker 10: bread and medicine to thy friend. Many a one cannot
- 1:38:45Speaker 10: loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
- 1:38:51Speaker 10: Art thou a slave, then thou canst not be a friend?
- 1:38:56Speaker 10: Art thou a tyrant? Then thou canst not have friends?
- 1:39:02Speaker 10: For too long has there been a slave and a
- 1:39:05Speaker 10: tyrant concealed in woman? On that account, woman is not
- 1:39:09Speaker 10: yet capable of friendship. She knoweth only love. In woman's
- 1:39:14Speaker 10: love there is injustice and blindness to all she does
- 1:39:18Speaker 10: not love. And even in woman's conscious love there is
- 1:39:22Speaker 10: still always surprise and lightning at night along with the light.
- 1:39:28Speaker 10: As yet, woman is not capable of friendship. Women are
- 1:39:32Speaker 10: still cats and birds, or at the best cows. As
- 1:39:37Speaker 10: yet woman is not capable of friendship. But tell me,
- 1:39:41Speaker 10: ye men, who, if you are capable of friendship, owe
- 1:39:46Speaker 10: your poverty, ye men, and your sordidness of soul. As
- 1:39:50Speaker 10: much as ye give to your friend, will I give
- 1:39:53Speaker 10: even to my foe? And will not have become poorer?
- 1:39:56Speaker 10: Thereby there is comradeship. May they be friendship? Thus Spague Zarathustra.
- 1:40:06Speaker 10: End of Chapter fourteen, The friend.
- 1:40:15Speaker 4: Part one, Chapter fifteen, The thousand and one Goals. Many
- 1:40:22Speaker 4: lands saw Zarathustra and many peoples. Thus he discovered the
- 1:40:27Speaker 4: good and bad of many peoples. No greater power did
- 1:40:30Speaker 4: Zarathustra find on earth than good and bad. No people
- 1:40:36Speaker 4: could live without first valuing. If a people will maintain itself, however,
- 1:40:40Speaker 4: it must not value as its neighbor valueth. Much that
- 1:40:44Speaker 4: passed for good with one people was regarded with scorn
- 1:40:47Speaker 4: and contempt by another. Thus I found it much found
- 1:40:51Speaker 4: I hear called bad, which was there decked with purple honors.
- 1:40:55Speaker 4: Never did the one neighbor understand the other. Ever did
- 1:40:58Speaker 4: his sole marvel at his neighbor's illusion and wickedness. A
- 1:41:02Speaker 4: table of excellencies hangeth over every people.
- 1:41:05Speaker 7: Lo.
- 1:41:05Speaker 4: It is the table of their triumphs lo. It is
- 1:41:08Speaker 4: the voice of their will to power. It is laudable
- 1:41:12Speaker 4: what they think hard, what is indispensable and hard they
- 1:41:15Speaker 4: call good, And what relieveth in the direst distress, the
- 1:41:19Speaker 4: unique and hardest of all they extol as holy, whatever
- 1:41:24Speaker 4: maketh them rule and conquer and shine. To the dismay
- 1:41:28Speaker 4: and envy of their neighbors, they regard as the high
- 1:41:31Speaker 4: and foremost thing, the test and the meaning of all else. Faverily,
- 1:41:36Speaker 4: my brother, if thou knewest but a people's need, its land,
- 1:41:39Speaker 4: its sky, and its neighbor. Then wouldst thou divine the
- 1:41:43Speaker 4: law of its surmountings, and wyat climmeth up that ladder
- 1:41:47Speaker 4: to its hope. Always shalt thou be the foremost and
- 1:41:51Speaker 4: prominent above others. No one shall thy jealous soul love,
- 1:41:56Speaker 4: except a friend that made the soul of a Greek thrill.
- 1:42:00Speaker 4: Thereby went he his way to greatness, to speak truth
- 1:42:04Speaker 4: and be skillful with bow and arrow. So seemed it
- 1:42:07Speaker 4: alike pleasing and hard to the people from whom cometh
- 1:42:10Speaker 4: my name, the name which is alike pleasing and hard
- 1:42:12Speaker 4: to me. To honor father and mother, and from the
- 1:42:16Speaker 4: root of the soul, to do their will. This table
- 1:42:19Speaker 4: of surmounting hung another people over them, and became powerful
- 1:42:22Speaker 4: and permanent, thereby to have fidelity, and for the sake
- 1:42:26Speaker 4: of fidelity, to risk honor and blood, even in evil
- 1:42:29Speaker 4: and dangerous courses, teaching itself, so another people mastered itself,
- 1:42:34Speaker 4: and thus mastering itself, became pregnant and heavy with great hopes.
- 1:42:39Speaker 4: Verily men have given unto themselves all their good and bad.
- 1:42:44Speaker 4: Verily they took it not, they found it not. It
- 1:42:47Speaker 4: came not unto them, as a voice from heaven. Values
- 1:42:51Speaker 4: did man only assign to things in order to maintain himself.
- 1:42:55Speaker 4: He created only the significance of things, a human significance.
- 1:43:00Speaker 4: Therefore callth he himself man, that is the valuator. Valuing
- 1:43:06Speaker 4: is creating. Hear it you creating ones? Valuation itself is
- 1:43:11Speaker 4: the treasure and jewel of the valued things. Through valuation
- 1:43:19Speaker 4: only is their value. And without valuation, the nut of
- 1:43:23Speaker 4: existence would be hollow. Hear it you creating ones? Change
- 1:43:28Speaker 4: of values, that is, change of the creating ones? Always
- 1:43:32Speaker 4: doth he destroy? Who hath to be a creator? Creating
- 1:43:36Speaker 4: ones were first of all peoples, and only in late
- 1:43:39Speaker 4: times individuals. Verily, the individual himself is still the latest creation.
- 1:43:45Speaker 4: Peoples once hung over them, tables of the good, love
- 1:43:49Speaker 4: which would rule, and love which would obey, created for
- 1:43:52Speaker 4: themselves such tables. Older is the pleasure in the herd
- 1:43:56Speaker 4: than the pleasure in the ego, And as long as
- 1:43:58Speaker 4: the good conscience is for the herd, the bad conscience
- 1:44:01Speaker 4: only saith ego. Verily, the crafty ego, the loveless one
- 1:44:06Speaker 4: that seeketh its advantage in the advantage of many. It
- 1:44:09Speaker 4: is not the origin of the herd, but its ruin
- 1:44:12Speaker 4: loving ones. Was it always and creating ones that created
- 1:44:16Speaker 4: good and bad. Fire of love bloweth in the names
- 1:44:19Speaker 4: of all the virtues, and fire of wrath many lands
- 1:44:23Speaker 4: saw Zarathustra and many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra
- 1:44:28Speaker 4: find on earth than the creations of the loving ones
- 1:44:32Speaker 4: good and bad? Are they called verily a prodigy? Is
- 1:44:36Speaker 4: this power of praising and blaming? Tell me, you, brethren,
- 1:44:40Speaker 4: who will master it?
- 1:44:41Speaker 8: For me?
- 1:44:41Speaker 4: Who will put a fetter on the thousand necks of
- 1:44:44Speaker 4: this animal? A thousand goals have there been hitherto for
- 1:44:47Speaker 4: a thousand peoples have there been? Only the fetter for
- 1:44:51Speaker 4: the thousand necks is still lacking? There is lacking the
- 1:44:54Speaker 4: one goal. As yet humanity hath not a goal. But pray,
- 1:44:58Speaker 4: tell me, my brethren, if the goal all of humanity
- 1:45:00Speaker 4: be still lacking, is there not also still lacking humanity itself?
- 1:45:06Speaker 4: Thus spake Zarathustra and of Part one, Chapter fifteen.
- 1:45:16Speaker 1: Part one, Chapter sixteen. Neighbor love, Ye crowd around your
- 1:45:23Speaker 1: neighbor and have fine words for it. But I say,
- 1:45:27Speaker 1: unto you your neighbor love is your bad. Love of yourselves.
- 1:45:32Speaker 1: Ye flee unto your neighbor from yourselves, and would fain
- 1:45:35Speaker 1: make a virtue thereof. But I fathom your unselfishness, that
- 1:45:42Speaker 1: thou is older than the eye, that thou hast been consecrated,
- 1:45:47Speaker 1: but not yet the eye. So man presseth nigh unto
- 1:45:51Speaker 1: his neighbor. Do I advise you to neighbor love? Rather,
- 1:45:55Speaker 1: do I advise you to neighbor flight and to furthest.
- 1:45:58Speaker 1: Love higher than love to your neighbor is love to
- 1:46:02Speaker 1: the furthest and future ones. Higher still than love to
- 1:46:06Speaker 1: men is love to things and phantoms. The phantom that
- 1:46:11Speaker 1: runneth on before thee my brother, is fairer than thou.
- 1:46:15Speaker 1: Why dost thou not give unto it thy flesh and
- 1:46:18Speaker 1: thy bones, But thou fearest and runnest unto thy neighbor.
- 1:46:24Speaker 1: Ye cannot endure it with yourselves, and do not love
- 1:46:27Speaker 1: yourselves sufficiently. So ye seek to mislead your neighbor into love,
- 1:46:32Speaker 1: And would fain guild yourselves with his error?
- 1:46:37Speaker 7: Would that ye.
- 1:46:37Speaker 1: Could not endure it with any kind of near ones
- 1:46:40Speaker 1: or their neighbors, Then would ye have to create your
- 1:46:44Speaker 1: friend in his overflowing heart out of yourselves. Ye call
- 1:46:49Speaker 1: in a witness when ye want to speak well of yourselves,
- 1:46:53Speaker 1: and when ye have misled him to think well of you,
- 1:46:56Speaker 1: ye also think well of yourselves. Not only doth he
- 1:47:00Speaker 1: lie who speaketh contrary to his knowledge, but more so
- 1:47:05Speaker 1: he who speaketh contrary to his ignorance. And thus speak
- 1:47:10Speaker 1: ye of yourselves in your intercourse, and belie your neighbor
- 1:47:14Speaker 1: with yourselves. Thus saith the fool. Association with men spoilt
- 1:47:19Speaker 1: the character, especially when one hath none. The one goeth
- 1:47:24Speaker 1: to his neighbor because he seeketh himself, and the other
- 1:47:29Speaker 1: because he would fain lose himself. Your bad love to
- 1:47:32Speaker 1: yourselves maketh solitude a prison to you. The furthest ones
- 1:47:39Speaker 1: are they who pay for your love to the near ones.
- 1:47:43Speaker 1: And when there are but five of you together, a
- 1:47:46Speaker 1: sixth must always die. I do not love your festivals either.
- 1:47:51Speaker 1: Too many actors found I there, and even the spectators
- 1:47:55Speaker 1: often behaved like actors. Not the neighbor do I teach you,
- 1:48:01Speaker 1: but the friend. Let the friend be the festival of
- 1:48:04Speaker 1: the earth to you, and a foretaste of the superman.
- 1:48:08Speaker 1: I teach you the friend and his overflowing heart. But
- 1:48:11Speaker 1: one must know how to be a sponge, if one
- 1:48:14Speaker 1: would be loved by overflowing hearts. I teach you the
- 1:48:18Speaker 1: friend in whom the world standeth complete, a capsule of
- 1:48:21Speaker 1: the good, the creating friend, who hath always a complete
- 1:48:26Speaker 1: world to bestow. And as the world unrolled itself for him,
- 1:48:31Speaker 1: so rolleth it together again for him in rings, as
- 1:48:35Speaker 1: the growth of good through evil, as the growth of
- 1:48:38Speaker 1: purpose out of chance. Let the future and the furthest
- 1:48:44Speaker 1: be the motive of thy day. In thy friend, thou
- 1:48:47Speaker 1: shalt love the Superman as thy motive. My brethren, I
- 1:48:52Speaker 1: advise you not to neighbor love. I advise you to
- 1:48:56Speaker 1: furthest love. Thus spake Zarathustra end Part one, Chapter sixteen,
- 1:49:07Speaker 1: Part one, Chapter seventeen, the way of the creating One,
- 1:49:15Speaker 1: wouldst thou go into isolation? My brother? Wouldst thou seek
- 1:49:19Speaker 1: the way unto thyself, Tarry yet a little, and hearken
- 1:49:24Speaker 1: unto me, He who seeketh may easily get lost himself.
- 1:49:30Speaker 1: All isolation is wrong, so say the herd, And long
- 1:49:34Speaker 1: didst thou belong to the herd? The voice of the
- 1:49:38Speaker 1: herd will still echo in thee. And when thou sayest
- 1:49:42Speaker 1: I have no longer a conscience in common with you,
- 1:49:45Speaker 1: then will it be a plaint and a pain lo
- 1:49:49Speaker 1: that pain itself did the same conscience produce, and the
- 1:49:53Speaker 1: last gleam of that conscience still gloweth on thine affliction.
- 1:49:59Speaker 1: But thou wouldst the way of thine affliction, which is
- 1:50:02Speaker 1: the way unto thyself. Then show me thine authority and
- 1:50:06Speaker 1: thy strength to do so? Art thou a new strength
- 1:50:10Speaker 1: and a new authority, a first motion, a self rolling wheel,
- 1:50:16Speaker 1: canst thou also compel stars to revolve around thee? Alas
- 1:50:21Speaker 1: there is so much lusting for loftiness, there are so
- 1:50:25Speaker 1: many convolutions of the ambitions. Show me that thou art
- 1:50:29Speaker 1: not a lusting and ambitious one. Alas there are so
- 1:50:33Speaker 1: many great thoughts that do nothing more than the bellows
- 1:50:37Speaker 1: they inflate and make emptier than ever. Free, dost thou
- 1:50:42Speaker 1: call thyself thy ruling thought? What I hear of, and
- 1:50:46Speaker 1: not that thou hast escaped from a yoke? Art thou
- 1:50:50Speaker 1: one entitled to escape from a yoke? Many a one
- 1:50:54Speaker 1: hath cast away as final worth, when he hath cast
- 1:50:56Speaker 1: away his servitude free from what? What doth that matter
- 1:51:01Speaker 1: to Zarathustra? Clearly, however, shall thine eye show unto me? Free?
- 1:51:08Speaker 6: For what.
- 1:51:10Speaker 1: Canst thou give unto thyself thy bad and thy good,
- 1:51:14Speaker 1: and set up thy will as a law over thee.
- 1:51:18Speaker 1: Canst thou be judged for thyself and avenger of thy law.
- 1:51:23Speaker 1: Terrible is a loneness with the judge and avenger of
- 1:51:26Speaker 1: one's own law. Thus is a star projected into desert
- 1:51:31Speaker 1: space and into the icy breath of a loneness. Today,
- 1:51:37Speaker 1: sufferest thou from the multitude, thou individual. Today, hast thou
- 1:51:42Speaker 1: still thy courage unabated and thy hopes. But one day
- 1:51:47Speaker 1: will the solitude weary thee? One day will thy pride yield,
- 1:51:51Speaker 1: and thy courage quail. Thou wilt one day cry I
- 1:51:55Speaker 1: am alone. One day wilt thou see no longer thy law,
- 1:52:01Speaker 1: and see too closely thy lowliness, thy sublimity itself will
- 1:52:06Speaker 1: frighten thee as a phantom. Thou wilt one day cry
- 1:52:10Speaker 1: all is false. There are feelings which seek to slay
- 1:52:14Speaker 1: the lonesome one. If they do not succeed, then must
- 1:52:19Speaker 1: they themselves die? But art thou capable of it to
- 1:52:24Speaker 1: be a murderer? Hast thou ever known, my brother the
- 1:52:28Speaker 1: word disdain and the anguish of thy justice? In being
- 1:52:32Speaker 1: just to those that disdain thee. Thou forcest many to
- 1:52:36Speaker 1: think differently about THEE that charge they heavily to thine account.
- 1:52:42Speaker 1: Thou camest nigh unto them, and yet whentest past for
- 1:52:47Speaker 1: that they never forgive THEE. Thou goest beyond them. But
- 1:52:52Speaker 1: the higher thou risest, the smaller doth the eye of
- 1:52:56Speaker 1: envy see THEE. Most of all, however, is the flying
- 1:53:01Speaker 1: one hated? How could ye be just unto me? Must
- 1:53:05Speaker 1: thou say, I choose your injustice as my allotted portion? Injustice?
- 1:53:11Speaker 1: And filth cast they at the lonesome one, But my brother,
- 1:53:17Speaker 1: if thou wouldst be a star, thou must shine for
- 1:53:19Speaker 1: them none the less on that account, and be on
- 1:53:23Speaker 1: thy guard against thy good and just they would fain
- 1:53:27Speaker 1: crucify those who devise their own virtue. They hate the
- 1:53:31Speaker 1: lonesome ones. Be on thy guard also against holy simplicity.
- 1:53:37Speaker 1: All is unholy to it that is not simple, fain
- 1:53:41Speaker 1: likewise would it play with the fire of the faggot
- 1:53:45Speaker 1: and stake, And be on thy guard also against the
- 1:53:49Speaker 1: assaults of thy love. To readily doth the recluse reach
- 1:53:53Speaker 1: his hand to anyone who meeteth him. To many a
- 1:53:57Speaker 1: one mayst thou not give thy hand, but only thy paw.
- 1:54:01Speaker 1: And I wish thy paw also to have clause. But
- 1:54:05Speaker 1: the worst enemy thou canst meet, wilt thou thyself always
- 1:54:09Speaker 1: be thou waylayest thyself in caverns and forests, Thou lonesome one,
- 1:54:16Speaker 1: Thou ghost the way to thyself, and pass thyself, and
- 1:54:20Speaker 1: thy seven devils leadeth thy way. A heretic wilt thou
- 1:54:25Speaker 1: be to thyself, and a wizard, and a soothsayer, and
- 1:54:28Speaker 1: a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate and a villain.
- 1:54:33Speaker 1: Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame?
- 1:54:37Speaker 1: How couldst thou become new if thou have not first
- 1:54:40Speaker 1: become ashes? Thou lonesome one, Thou goest the way of
- 1:54:45Speaker 1: the creating One. A god wilt thou create for thyself
- 1:54:49Speaker 1: out of thy seven devils, Thou lonesome one, Thou ghost
- 1:54:54Speaker 1: the way of the loving One. Thou lovest thyself, and
- 1:54:58Speaker 1: on that account despises thou thyself, as only the loving
- 1:55:03Speaker 1: ones despise to create. Desireth the loving one. Because he
- 1:55:08Speaker 1: despiseth what knoweth he of love? Who hath not been
- 1:55:12Speaker 1: obliged to despise just what he loved. With thy love,
- 1:55:17Speaker 1: go into thine isolation, my brother, And with thy creating
- 1:55:22Speaker 1: and late only will justice limp after THEE. With my tears,
- 1:55:27Speaker 1: go into thine isolation, My brother. I love him who
- 1:55:30Speaker 1: seeketh to create beyond himself, and thus succumbeth. Thus spake Zarathustra.
- 1:55:41Speaker 1: End of Part one, Chapter seventeen, Part one, Chapter eighteen,
- 1:55:47Speaker 1: Old and young women, Why stealest thou along so furtively
- 1:55:53Speaker 1: in the twilight, Zarathustra, And what hidest thou so carefully
- 1:55:58Speaker 1: under thy mantle? Is it a treasure that hath been
- 1:56:02Speaker 1: given THEE? Or a child that hath been born Thee?
- 1:56:07Speaker 1: Or goest thou thyself on a thieve's errand thou friend
- 1:56:10Speaker 1: of evil? Verily, my brother said, Zarathustra, it is a
- 1:56:17Speaker 1: treasure that hath been given me. It is a little
- 1:56:20Speaker 1: truth which I carry. But it is naughty, like a
- 1:56:25Speaker 1: young child, and if I hold not its mouth, it
- 1:56:29Speaker 1: screameth too loudly. As I went on my way alone today,
- 1:56:35Speaker 1: at the hour when the sun declineth, there met me
- 1:56:38Speaker 1: an old woman, and she spake thus unto my soul
- 1:56:43Speaker 1: much hath Zarathustras spoken also to us women, but never
- 1:56:47Speaker 1: spake he unto us concerning women. And I answered her,
- 1:56:53Speaker 1: concerning woman, one should only talk unto men. Talk also
- 1:56:58Speaker 1: unto me of woman, said she, I am old enough
- 1:57:02Speaker 1: to forget it presently. And I oblige the old woman
- 1:57:06Speaker 1: and spake thus unto her. Everything in woman is a riddle.
- 1:57:11Speaker 1: Everything in woman hath one solution. It is called pregnancy.
- 1:57:17Speaker 1: Man is for woman a means the purpose is always
- 1:57:20Speaker 1: the child? But what is woman for man? Two different things?
- 1:57:25Speaker 1: Wanteth the true man danger and diversion. Therefore wanteth he
- 1:57:31Speaker 1: woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be trained
- 1:57:36Speaker 1: for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior.
- 1:57:41Speaker 1: All else is folly, two sweet fruits. These the warrior
- 1:57:46Speaker 1: liketh not. Therefore liketh he woman. Bitter is even the
- 1:57:53Speaker 1: sweetest woman better than man. Doth woman understand children? But
- 1:57:59Speaker 1: man is more childish than woman. In the true man
- 1:58:04Speaker 1: there is a child hidden it. Wanteth to play up, then, ye, women,
- 1:58:09Speaker 1: and discover the child, and man a plaything. Let woman
- 1:58:13Speaker 1: be pure and fine, like the precious stone, illuminated with
- 1:58:19Speaker 1: the virtues of a world not yet to come. Let
- 1:58:22Speaker 1: the beam of a star shine in your love. Let
- 1:58:26Speaker 1: your hope. Say, may I bear the superman in your love.
- 1:58:30Speaker 1: Let there be valor with your love. Shall ye assail
- 1:58:34Speaker 1: him who inspireth you with fear in your love? Be
- 1:58:38Speaker 1: your honor. Little doth woman understand otherwise about honor, But
- 1:58:43Speaker 1: let this be your honor. Always to love more than
- 1:58:46Speaker 1: ye are loved, and never be the second. Let man
- 1:58:51Speaker 1: fear woman when she loveth, then maketh she every sacrifice,
- 1:58:56Speaker 1: and everything else she regardeth as worthless. Let man fear
- 1:59:01Speaker 1: woman when she hateth. For man in his innermost soul
- 1:59:05Speaker 1: is merely evil. Woman, however, is mean whom hateth woman most.
- 1:59:14Speaker 1: Thus spake the iron to the lodestone. I hate thee most,
- 1:59:18Speaker 1: because thou attractest, but art too weak to draw unto thee.
- 1:59:24Speaker 1: The happiness of man is I will. The happiness of
- 1:59:28Speaker 1: woman is he will lo now hath the world become perfect.
- 1:59:35Speaker 1: Thus thinketh every woman, when she obeyeth with all her love.
- 1:59:40Speaker 1: Obey must the woman and find a depth for her surface.
- 1:59:45Speaker 1: Surface is woman's soul a mobile, stormy film on shallow water.
- 1:59:53Speaker 1: Man's soul, however, is deep. Its current gusheth in subterranean caverns.
- 2:00:00Speaker 1: Woman surmiseth its force, But comprehendeth it not, then answered me,
- 2:00:07Speaker 1: the old woman. Many fine things hath Zarathustra said, especially
- 2:00:13Speaker 1: for those who are young enough for them. Strange Zarathustra
- 2:00:19Speaker 1: know little about women, and yet he is right about them.
- 2:00:23Speaker 1: Doth this happen because with women nothing is impossible? And
- 2:00:28Speaker 1: now accept a little truth by way of thanks. I
- 2:00:32Speaker 1: am old enough for it. Swaddle it up and hold
- 2:00:36Speaker 1: its mouth, otherwise it will scream too loudly the little truth.
- 2:00:43Speaker 1: Give me woman, thy little truth, said I, And thus
- 2:00:48Speaker 1: spake the old woman. Thou goest to women, do not
- 2:00:54Speaker 1: forget thy whip, Thus spake Zarathustra. And of Part one,
- 2:01:06Speaker 1: chapter eighteen.
- 2:01:08Speaker 6: Part one, chapter nineteen, The Bite of the Adder. One
- 2:01:15Speaker 6: day had Zarathustra fallen asleep under a fig tree, owing
- 2:01:20Speaker 6: to the heat, with his arms over his face. And
- 2:01:24Speaker 6: there came an adder and bit him in the neck,
- 2:01:27Speaker 6: so that Zarathustra screamed with pain. When he had taken
- 2:01:32Speaker 6: his arm from his face, he looked at the serpent,
- 2:01:35Speaker 6: and then did it recognize the eyes of Zarathustra. Wriggled
- 2:01:40Speaker 6: awkwardly and tried to get away. Not at all, said Zarathustra,
- 2:01:47Speaker 6: as yet hast thou not received my thanks, Thou hast
- 2:01:51Speaker 6: awakened me in time. My journey is yet long. Thy
- 2:01:57Speaker 6: journey is short, said the adder, Sadly, my poison is fatal.
- 2:02:02Speaker 6: Zarathustra smiled. When did ever a dragon die of a
- 2:02:07Speaker 6: serpent's poison? Said he, But take thy poison back? Thou
- 2:02:12Speaker 6: art not rich enough to present it to me. Then
- 2:02:16Speaker 6: fell the adder again on his neck and licked his wound.
- 2:02:21Speaker 6: When Zarathustra once told this to his disciples, they asked him,
- 2:02:26Speaker 6: and what, o, Zarathustra, is the moral of thy story?
- 2:02:31Speaker 6: And Zarathustra answered them, thus, the destroyer of morality the good?
- 2:02:38Speaker 6: And just call me my story is immoral. When however
- 2:02:45Speaker 6: ye have an enemy, then return him, not good for evil,
- 2:02:50Speaker 6: for that would abash him, but prove that he hath
- 2:02:53Speaker 6: done something good to you, And rather be angry than
- 2:02:58Speaker 6: abash any one. And when ye are cursed, it pleaseth
- 2:03:03Speaker 6: me not that ye should then desire to bless, rather
- 2:03:08Speaker 6: curse a little also, And should a great injustice before you,
- 2:03:14Speaker 6: then do quickly five small ones. Besides hideous to behold
- 2:03:20Speaker 6: is he on whom injustice presseth alone? Did ye ever
- 2:03:25Speaker 6: know this? Shared injustice is half justice, and he who
- 2:03:30Speaker 6: can bear it shall take thee injustice upon himself. A
- 2:03:34Speaker 6: small revenge is humaner than no revenge at all. And
- 2:03:39Speaker 6: if the punishment be not also a right and an
- 2:03:42Speaker 6: honor to the transgressor. I do not like your punishing nobler.
- 2:03:49Speaker 6: Is it to own oneself in the wrong than to
- 2:03:52Speaker 6: establish one's right, Especially if one be in the right,
- 2:03:57Speaker 6: only one must be rich enough to do so. I
- 2:04:01Speaker 6: do not like your cold justice. Out of the eye
- 2:04:05Speaker 6: of your judges there always glanceth the executioner and his
- 2:04:10Speaker 6: cold steel. Tell me where find we justice, which is
- 2:04:16Speaker 6: love with seeing eyes. Devise me, then, the love which
- 2:04:21Speaker 6: not only beareth all punishment, but also all guilt. Devise me,
- 2:04:26Speaker 6: then the justice which acquitteth every one except the judge.
- 2:04:31Speaker 6: And would ye hear this likewise to him who seeketh
- 2:04:35Speaker 6: to be just from the heart, even the lie becometh philanthropy.
- 2:04:41Speaker 6: But how could I be just from the heart? How
- 2:04:44Speaker 6: can I give every one his own? Let this be
- 2:04:48Speaker 6: enough for me, I give unto every one mine own. Finally,
- 2:04:54Speaker 6: my brethren guard against doing wrong to any anchorite. How
- 2:05:00Speaker 6: could an anchorite forget? How could he requite like a
- 2:05:06Speaker 6: deep well is an anchorite? Easy is it to throw
- 2:05:11Speaker 6: in a stone? If it should sink to the bottom, however,
- 2:05:15Speaker 6: tell me who will bring it out again? God against
- 2:05:19Speaker 6: injuring the anchorite. If ye have done so, however, well
- 2:05:24Speaker 6: then kill him also. Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Part one,
- 2:05:31Speaker 6: Chapter nineteen, Part.
- 2:05:33Speaker 4: One, Section twenty, Child and Marriage. I have a question
- 2:05:39Speaker 4: for THEE alone, my brother, like a sounding lead, cast
- 2:05:42Speaker 4: I this question into thy soul, that I may know
- 2:05:45Speaker 4: its depth. Thou art young and desirous child and marriage.
- 2:05:50Speaker 4: But I ask THEE. Art thou a man entitled to
- 2:05:54Speaker 4: desire a child? Art thou the victorious one, the self conqueror,
- 2:05:59Speaker 4: the ruler of thy passion, the master of thy virtues?
- 2:06:03Speaker 4: Thus do I ask THEE? Or doth the animals speak
- 2:06:06Speaker 4: in thy wish and necessity or isolation or discord?
- 2:06:10Speaker 8: In THEE?
- 2:06:11Speaker 4: I would have thy victory and freedom long for a child,
- 2:06:15Speaker 4: living monuments. Shalt thou build to thy victory and emancipation.
- 2:06:20Speaker 4: Beyond thyself, shalt thou build, But first of all, must
- 2:06:24Speaker 4: thou be built thyself rectangular in body and soul. Not
- 2:06:29Speaker 4: only onward. Shalt thou propagate thyself but upward. For that purpose,
- 2:06:33Speaker 4: May the garden of marriage help thee a higher body.
- 2:06:36Speaker 4: Shalt thou create a first movement, a spontaneously rolling wheel,
- 2:06:41Speaker 4: a creating one. Shalt thou create marriage? So call I
- 2:06:46Speaker 4: the will of the Twain to create the one that
- 2:06:49Speaker 4: is more than those who created it, the reverence for
- 2:06:52Speaker 4: one another, as those exercising such a will call thy marriage.
- 2:06:57Speaker 4: Let this be the significance and truth of thy marriage.
- 2:07:00Speaker 4: But that which the many, too many call marriage, those
- 2:07:03Speaker 4: superfluous ones Ah, what shall I call it ah? The
- 2:07:07Speaker 4: poverty of soul in the Twain Ah, the filth of
- 2:07:10Speaker 4: soul in the Twain Ah, the pitiable self complacency in
- 2:07:14Speaker 4: the Twain marriage they call it all. And they say
- 2:07:17Speaker 4: their marriages are made in heaven. Well, I do not
- 2:07:20Speaker 4: like it, that heaven of the superfluous. No, I do
- 2:07:23Speaker 4: not like them, those animals tangled in the heavenly toils
- 2:07:28Speaker 4: far from me. Also be the God who limpeth thither
- 2:07:30Speaker 4: to bless what he hath not matched laugh not at
- 2:07:33Speaker 4: such marriages? What child hath not had reason to weep
- 2:07:36Speaker 4: over its parents? Worthy? Did this man seem and rite
- 2:07:39Speaker 4: for the meaning of the earth. But when I saw
- 2:07:41Speaker 4: his wife. The earth seemed to me a home for madcaps. Yea,
- 2:07:45Speaker 4: I would that the earth shook with convulsions when a
- 2:07:48Speaker 4: saint and a goose mate with one another. This one
- 2:07:51Speaker 4: went forth in quest of truth as a hero, and
- 2:07:54Speaker 4: at last got himself a small decked up lie. His marriage.
- 2:07:58Speaker 4: He calleth it that one was reserved in intercourse, and
- 2:08:01Speaker 4: chose choicely. But one time he spoilt his company. For
- 2:08:05Speaker 4: all time his marriage, he calleth it another sought a
- 2:08:09Speaker 4: handmaid with the virtues of an angel. But all at
- 2:08:12Speaker 4: once he became a handmaide of a woman. And now
- 2:08:15Speaker 4: would he need also to become an angel? Careful have
- 2:08:18Speaker 4: I found all buyers, and all of them have astute eyes.
- 2:08:22Speaker 4: But even the astuteth of them buyeth his wife in
- 2:08:25Speaker 4: a sack. Many short follies, that is called love by you,
- 2:08:30Speaker 4: and your marriage puteth an end to many short follies
- 2:08:33Speaker 4: with one long stupidity, your love to woman and woman's
- 2:08:37Speaker 4: love to man. Ah would that it were sympathy for
- 2:08:39Speaker 4: suffering and veiled deities. But generally two animals alight on
- 2:08:43Speaker 4: one another. But even your best love is only an
- 2:08:47Speaker 4: enraptured simile and a painful ardor it is a torch
- 2:08:50Speaker 4: to light you to loftier paths beyond yourselves. Shall you
- 2:08:54Speaker 4: love some day? Then learn first of all to love.
- 2:08:58Speaker 4: And on that account he had to drink the bitter
- 2:09:00Speaker 4: cup of your love. Bitterness is in the cup even
- 2:09:02Speaker 4: of the best love. Thus doth it cause longing for
- 2:09:05Speaker 4: the superman? Thus doth it cause thirst in thee the
- 2:09:09Speaker 4: creating one, thirst in the creating one arrow and longing
- 2:09:13Speaker 4: for the superman? Tell me, my brother, is this thy
- 2:09:16Speaker 4: will to marriage? Holy? Call I such a will and
- 2:09:19Speaker 4: such a marriage? Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Part one,
- 2:09:24Speaker 4: Chapter twenty.
- 2:09:30Speaker 6: Part one, Chapter twenty one. Voluntary death. Many die too late,
- 2:09:39Speaker 6: and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept.
- 2:09:45Speaker 6: Die at the right time, die at the right time.
- 2:09:50Speaker 6: So teacheth Zarathustra. To be sure, he who never liveth
- 2:09:56Speaker 6: at the right time. How could he ever die at
- 2:09:59Speaker 6: the righte time? Would that he might never be born?
- 2:10:04Speaker 6: Thus do I advise the superfluous ones. But even the
- 2:10:09Speaker 6: superfluous ones make much ado about their death, and even
- 2:10:13Speaker 6: the hollowest nut wanteth to be cracked. Every One regardeth
- 2:10:19Speaker 6: dying as a great matter. But as yet death is
- 2:10:23Speaker 6: not a festival. Not yet have people learned to inaugurate
- 2:10:27Speaker 6: the finest festivals. The consummating death I show unto you,
- 2:10:33Speaker 6: which becometh a stimulus and promise to the living. His
- 2:10:38Speaker 6: death dieth the consummating one triumphantly surrounded by hoping and
- 2:10:44Speaker 6: promising ones. Thus should one learn to die, and there
- 2:10:49Speaker 6: should be no festival at which such a dying one
- 2:10:53Speaker 6: doth not consecrate the oaths of the living. Thus to
- 2:10:58Speaker 6: die is best. The next ex best, however, is to
- 2:11:01Speaker 6: die in battle and sacrifice a great soul. But to
- 2:11:06Speaker 6: the fighter equally hateful as to the victor, is your
- 2:11:10Speaker 6: grinning death, which stealeth nigh like a thief, and yet
- 2:11:15Speaker 6: cometh as master my death, prays I unto you, the
- 2:11:21Speaker 6: voluntary death, which cometh unto me, because I want it,
- 2:11:27Speaker 6: And when shall I want it? He that hath a
- 2:11:30Speaker 6: goal and an heir, wanteth death at the right time
- 2:11:34Speaker 6: for the goal and the heir. And out of reverence
- 2:11:38Speaker 6: for the goal and the heir, he will hang up
- 2:11:42Speaker 6: no more withered wreaths in the sanctuary of life. Verily,
- 2:11:47Speaker 6: not the rope makers will I resemble. They lengthen out
- 2:11:50Speaker 6: their cord, and thereby go ever backward. Many a one
- 2:11:55Speaker 6: also waxeth too old for his truths and triumphs. A
- 2:12:00Speaker 6: toothless mouth hath no longer the right to every truth.
- 2:12:05Speaker 6: And whoever wanteth to have fame must take leave of
- 2:12:09Speaker 6: honor betimes and practice the difficult art of going at
- 2:12:13Speaker 6: the right time. One must discontinue being feasted upon when
- 2:12:19Speaker 6: one tasteth best. That is known by those who want
- 2:12:23Speaker 6: to be long loved. Sour apples are there no doubt
- 2:12:27Speaker 6: whose lot is to wait until the last day of autumn,
- 2:12:32Speaker 6: and at the same time they become ripe, yellow, and shriveled.
- 2:12:38Speaker 6: In some ageth the heart first, and in others the spirit,
- 2:12:43Speaker 6: and some are hoary in youth. But the late young
- 2:12:47Speaker 6: keep long young. To many men, life is a failure.
- 2:12:52Speaker 6: A poison worm gnaweth at their heart. Then let them
- 2:12:57Speaker 6: see to it that their dying is all the more
- 2:13:00Speaker 6: or a success. Many never become sweet. They rot even
- 2:13:05Speaker 6: in the summer. It is cowardice that holdeth them fast
- 2:13:09Speaker 6: to their branches. Far too many live, and far too
- 2:13:14Speaker 6: long hang they on their branches. Would that a storm
- 2:13:18Speaker 6: came and shook all this rottenness and worm eatenness from
- 2:13:22Speaker 6: the tree. Would that there came preachers of speedy death,
- 2:13:28Speaker 6: those would be the appropriate storms and agitators of the
- 2:13:32Speaker 6: trees of life. But I hear only slow death preached,
- 2:13:37Speaker 6: and patience with all that is earthly. Ah, ye preach
- 2:13:44Speaker 6: patience with what is earthly? This earthly? Is it that
- 2:13:48Speaker 6: hath too much patience with you, ye blasphemers. Verily too
- 2:13:54Speaker 6: early died that Hebrew whom the preachers of slow death honor,
- 2:13:59Speaker 6: And to many hath it proved a calamity that he
- 2:14:02Speaker 6: died too early. As yet, had he known only tears
- 2:14:08Speaker 6: and the melancholy of the Hebrews, together with the hatred
- 2:14:12Speaker 6: of the good and just the Hebrew Jesus, then was
- 2:14:16Speaker 6: he seized with a longing for death. Had he but
- 2:14:20Speaker 6: remained in the wilderness and far from the good and just,
- 2:14:24Speaker 6: then perhaps would he have learned to live and love
- 2:14:27Speaker 6: the earth and laughter. Also believe it, my brethren, he
- 2:14:32Speaker 6: died too early. He himself would have disavowed his doctrine
- 2:14:38Speaker 6: had he attained to my age. Noble enough was he
- 2:14:41Speaker 6: to disavow. But he was still immature. Immaturely loveth the youth,
- 2:14:48Speaker 6: and immaturely also hateth he man and earth confined and awkward,
- 2:14:54Speaker 6: are still his soul and the wings of his spirit.
- 2:14:58Speaker 6: But in man there is more more of the child
- 2:15:00Speaker 6: than in the youth, and less of melancholy. Better understandeth
- 2:15:05Speaker 6: he about life and death, free for death and free
- 2:15:10Speaker 6: in death, a holy naysayer when there is no longer
- 2:15:14Speaker 6: time for yea. Thus understandeth he about death and life.
- 2:15:21Speaker 6: That your dying may not be a reproach to man
- 2:15:24Speaker 6: and the earth, My friends, that do I solicit from
- 2:15:27Speaker 6: the honey of your soul in your dying, shall your
- 2:15:31Speaker 6: spirit and your virtue still shine like an evening afterglow
- 2:15:37Speaker 6: around the earth. Otherwise your dying hath been unsatisfactory. Thus
- 2:15:42Speaker 6: will I die myself, that ye friends may love the
- 2:15:47Speaker 6: earth more for my sake, and earth will I again
- 2:15:51Speaker 6: become to have rest in her that bore me verily
- 2:15:56Speaker 6: a goal had Zarathustra he threw his ball. Now, be
- 2:16:02Speaker 6: ye friends, the heirs of my goal, to you throw
- 2:16:06Speaker 6: I the golden ball. Best of all? Do I see you,
- 2:16:11Speaker 6: my friends, throw the golden ball? And so tarry I
- 2:16:17Speaker 6: still a little while on the earth. Pardon me for it,
- 2:16:22Speaker 6: Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Part one, Chapter twenty one,
- 2:16:28Speaker 6: Part one, Chapter twenty two, The bestowing Virtue. One. When
- 2:16:37Speaker 6: Zarathustra had taken leave of the town to which his
- 2:16:41Speaker 6: heart was attached, the name of which is the Pied Cow,
- 2:16:46Speaker 6: there followed him many people, who called themselves his disciples,
- 2:16:51Speaker 6: and kept him company. Thus came they to a cross road.
- 2:16:57Speaker 6: Then Zarathustra told them that he now wanted to go alone,
- 2:17:02Speaker 6: for he was fond of going alone. His disciples, however,
- 2:17:07Speaker 6: presented him at his departure with a staff, on the
- 2:17:11Speaker 6: golden handle of which a serpent twined round the sun.
- 2:17:18Speaker 6: Zarathustra rejoiced on account of the staff, and supported himself thereon.
- 2:17:24Speaker 6: Then spake he thus to his disciples, Tell me pray
- 2:17:30Speaker 6: how came gold to the highest value? Because it is
- 2:17:35Speaker 6: uncommon and unprofiting, and beaming and soft in luster, it
- 2:17:44Speaker 6: always bestoweth itself only as image of the highest virtue.
- 2:17:51Speaker 6: Came gold to the highest value. Goldlike beameth the glance
- 2:17:57Speaker 6: of the bestower. Gold luster maketh peace between moon and sun.
- 2:18:04Speaker 6: Uncommon is the highest virtue, and unprofiting, beaming is it,
- 2:18:11Speaker 6: and soft of luster. A bestowing virtue is the highest virtue.
- 2:18:18Speaker 6: Verily I divine you well, my disciples, Ye strive like
- 2:18:24Speaker 6: me for the bestowing virtue. What should ye have in
- 2:18:28Speaker 6: common with cats and wolves? It is your thirst to
- 2:18:34Speaker 6: become sacrifices and gifts yourselves. And therefore have ye the
- 2:18:41Speaker 6: thirst to accumulate all riches in your soul. Insatiably striveth
- 2:18:49Speaker 6: your soul for treasures and jewels. Because your virtue is insatiable.
- 2:18:55Speaker 6: In desiring to bestow, ye constrain all things things to
- 2:19:00Speaker 6: flow towards you and into you, so that they shall
- 2:19:04Speaker 6: flow back again out of your fountain as the gifts
- 2:19:09Speaker 6: of your love. Verily, an appropriator of all values, must
- 2:19:16Speaker 6: such bestowing love become but healthy and holy? Call I
- 2:19:22Speaker 6: this selfishness. Another selfishness is there an all too poor
- 2:19:29Speaker 6: and hungry kind which would always steal the selfishness of
- 2:19:34Speaker 6: the sick, the sickly selfishness with the eye of the thief.
- 2:19:40Speaker 6: It looketh upon all that is lustrous, with the craving
- 2:19:44Speaker 6: of hunger. It measureth him who hath abundance, and ever
- 2:19:49Speaker 6: doth it prowl round the tables of bestowers. Sickness speaketh
- 2:19:55Speaker 6: in such craving and invisible degeneration of a sickly body
- 2:20:01Speaker 6: speaketh the larcenous craving of this selfishness. Tell me, my brother,
- 2:20:08Speaker 6: what do we think? Bad? And worst of all? Is
- 2:20:13Speaker 6: it not degeneration? And we always suspect degeneration when the
- 2:20:19Speaker 6: bestowing soul is lacking. Upward goeth our course from genera
- 2:20:25Speaker 6: onto supergenera. But a horror to us is the degenerating sense,
- 2:20:32Speaker 6: which saith all for myself. Upward soareth our sense. Thus
- 2:20:40Speaker 6: is it a simile of our body? A simile of
- 2:20:44Speaker 6: an elevation. Such similes of elevations are the names of
- 2:20:50Speaker 6: the virtues. Thus goeth the body through history of becomer
- 2:20:56Speaker 6: and fighter and the spirit. What is it to the body,
- 2:21:02Speaker 6: its fights and victories, herald, its companion and echo? Similes
- 2:21:09Speaker 6: are all names of good and evil. They do not
- 2:21:13Speaker 6: speak out. They only hint a fool who seeketh knowledge
- 2:21:18Speaker 6: from them. Give heed, my brethren, to every hour when
- 2:21:23Speaker 6: your spirit would speak in similes, there is the origin
- 2:21:28Speaker 6: of your virtue. Elevated is then your body and raised
- 2:21:34Speaker 6: up with its delight enraptureth it the spirit, so that
- 2:21:39Speaker 6: it becometh creator and valuer and lover and everything's benefactor.
- 2:21:46Speaker 6: When your heart overfloweth broad and full, like the river,
- 2:21:51Speaker 6: a blessing and a danger to the lowlanders. There is
- 2:21:55Speaker 6: the origin of your virtue when ye are exalted above
- 2:22:00Speaker 6: praise and blame, and your will would command all things
- 2:22:05Speaker 6: as a loving one's will. There is the origin of
- 2:22:09Speaker 6: your virtue when ye despise pleasant things, and the effeminate couch,
- 2:22:15Speaker 6: and cannot couch far enough from the effeminate. There is
- 2:22:20Speaker 6: the origin of your virtue when ye are willers of
- 2:22:25Speaker 6: one will, and when that change of every need is
- 2:22:29Speaker 6: needful to you. There is the origin of your virtue. Verily,
- 2:22:35Speaker 6: a new good and evil is it? Verily a new
- 2:22:38Speaker 6: deep murmuring, and the voice of a new fountain power
- 2:22:44Speaker 6: is it? This new virtue? A ruling thought?
- 2:22:48Speaker 3: Is it?
- 2:22:49Speaker 6: And around it a subtle soul, a golden sun with
- 2:22:53Speaker 6: a serpent of knowledge around it. Two here caused Zarathustra
- 2:23:01Speaker 6: awhile and looked lovingly on his disciples. Then he continued
- 2:23:07Speaker 6: to speak thus, and his voice had changed. Remain true
- 2:23:13Speaker 6: to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue,
- 2:23:18Speaker 6: Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to
- 2:23:22Speaker 6: be the meaning of the earth. Thus do I pray
- 2:23:26Speaker 6: and conjure you. Let it not fly away from the
- 2:23:30Speaker 6: earthly and beat against eternal walls with its wings. Ah,
- 2:23:36Speaker 6: there hath always been so much flown away virtue lead
- 2:23:42Speaker 6: like me, the flown away virtue back to the earth, yea,
- 2:23:48Speaker 6: back to body and life, that it may give to
- 2:23:52Speaker 6: the earth its meaning, a human meaning A hundred times
- 2:23:57Speaker 6: hitherto hath spirit as well as virtue flown away and blundered,
- 2:24:03Speaker 6: alas in our body. Dwelleth still all this delusion and
- 2:24:08Speaker 6: blundering body, and will hath it there become a hundred
- 2:24:13Speaker 6: times hitherto hath spirit as well as virtue attempted and erred? Yea,
- 2:24:20Speaker 6: an attempt hath man been alas much ignorance and error.
- 2:24:26Speaker 6: Hath become embodied in us? Not only the rationality of millenniums,
- 2:24:33Speaker 6: also their madness breaketh out in us. Dangerous is it
- 2:24:38Speaker 6: to be an heir? Still fight we step by step
- 2:24:43Speaker 6: with a giant chance, and over all mankind hath hitherto
- 2:24:48Speaker 6: ruled nonsense the lack of sense. Let your spirit and
- 2:24:54Speaker 6: your virtue be devoted to the sense of the earth,
- 2:24:57Speaker 6: my brethren, Let the value of everything be determined anew
- 2:25:02Speaker 6: by you. Therefore, shall ye be fighters. Therefore shall ye
- 2:25:08Speaker 6: be creators? Intelligently doth the body purify itself, attempting with
- 2:25:14Speaker 6: intelligence it exalteth itself to the discerners. All impulses sanctify
- 2:25:20Speaker 6: themselves to the exalted. The soul becometh joyful physician. Heal thyself.
- 2:25:30Speaker 6: Then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be
- 2:25:33Speaker 6: his best cure to see with his eyes him who
- 2:25:37Speaker 6: maketh himself whole. A thousand paths are there which have
- 2:25:43Speaker 6: never yet been trodden, a thousand salubrities and hidden islands
- 2:25:49Speaker 6: of life, unexhausted and undiscovered. Is still man and man's
- 2:25:55Speaker 6: world Awake and hearken. Ye lonesome ones from the future,
- 2:26:01Speaker 6: come winds with stealthy pinions, and to fine ears, good
- 2:26:06Speaker 6: tidings are proclaimed, ye, lonesome ones of to day ye
- 2:26:11Speaker 6: seceding ones. Ye shall one day be a people out
- 2:26:16Speaker 6: of you who have chosen yourselves. Shall a chosen people arise,
- 2:26:23Speaker 6: and out of it the superman verily a place of healing.
- 2:26:29Speaker 6: Shall the earth become? And already is a new odor
- 2:26:33Speaker 6: diffused around it, a salvation bringing odor and a new hope.
- 2:26:41Speaker 6: Three when Zarathustra had spoken these words, He paused, like
- 2:26:46Speaker 6: one who had not said his last word. And long
- 2:26:50Speaker 6: did he balance the staff doubtfully in his hand. At
- 2:26:54Speaker 6: last he spake thus, and his voice had changed. I
- 2:27:00Speaker 6: now go alone, my disciples. Ye also now go away
- 2:27:04Speaker 6: and alone. So will I have it?
- 2:27:09Speaker 10: Verily?
- 2:27:09Speaker 6: I advise you depart from me and guard yourselves against Zarathustra,
- 2:27:15Speaker 6: and better still be ashamed of him. Perhaps he hath
- 2:27:19Speaker 6: deceived you. The man of knowledge must be able not
- 2:27:22Speaker 6: only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.
- 2:27:27Speaker 6: One requiteth a teacher badly if one remain merely a scholar?
- 2:27:33Speaker 6: And why will ye not pluck at my wreath? Ye
- 2:27:38Speaker 6: venerate me? But what if your veneration should some day collapse?
- 2:27:43Speaker 6: Take heed? Lest a statue crush you. Ye say, ye
- 2:27:47Speaker 6: believe in Zarathustra. But of what account is Zarathustra? Ye
- 2:27:54Speaker 6: are my believers, But of what account are all believers?
- 2:27:58Speaker 6: Ye had not yet so yourselves? Then did ye find me?
- 2:28:04Speaker 6: So do all believers? Therefore all belief is of so
- 2:28:09Speaker 6: little account. Now do I bid you lose me and
- 2:28:14Speaker 6: find yourselves. And only when ye have all denied me,
- 2:28:18Speaker 6: will I return unto you verily with other eyes, my brethren,
- 2:28:24Speaker 6: Shall I then seek my lost ones with another love?
- 2:28:28Speaker 6: Shall I then love you? And once again shall ye
- 2:28:33Speaker 6: have become friends unto me and children of one hope?
- 2:28:37Speaker 6: Then will I be with you for the third time
- 2:28:40Speaker 6: to celebrate the Great Noontide with you? And it is
- 2:28:45Speaker 6: the Great Noontide when man is in the middle of
- 2:28:49Speaker 6: his course between animal and superman, and celebrateth his advance
- 2:28:55Speaker 6: to the evening as his highest hope, For it is
- 2:28:58Speaker 6: the advance to new morning. At such time will the
- 2:29:03Speaker 6: down goer bless himself that he should be an over
- 2:29:07Speaker 6: goer and the sun of his knowledge will be at Noontide? Dead?
- 2:29:13Speaker 6: Are all the gods? Now? Do we desire the superman
- 2:29:18Speaker 6: to live? Let this be our final will at the
- 2:29:22Speaker 6: Great Noontide. Thus spake Zarathustra end of Part one, Chapter twenty.
- 2:29:30Speaker 9: Two, Part two, Chapter twenty three, The Child with the Mirror.
- 2:29:40Speaker 9: After this, Zarathustra returned again into the mountains to the
- 2:29:43Speaker 9: solitude of his cave and withdrew himself from men, waiting
- 2:29:47Speaker 9: like a sewer who had scattered his seed. His soul, however,
- 2:29:51Speaker 9: became impatient, full of longing for those whom he loved,
- 2:29:55Speaker 9: because he had still much to give them, for this
- 2:29:58Speaker 9: is hardest of all to close the old in hand
- 2:30:00Speaker 9: out of love and keep modest as a giver. Thus
- 2:30:05Speaker 9: passed with the lonesome one months and years. His wisdom
- 2:30:09Speaker 9: meanwhile increased and caused him pain by its abundance. One morning, however,
- 2:30:15Speaker 9: he awoke ere the rosy dawn, and, having meditated long
- 2:30:18Speaker 9: on his couch, at last spake thus to his heart.
- 2:30:22Speaker 9: Why did I startle in my dream so that I awoke?
- 2:30:26Speaker 9: Did not a child come to me carrying a mirror? Oh, Zarathustra,
- 2:30:30Speaker 9: said the child unto me, look at thyself in the mirror.
- 2:30:35Speaker 9: But when I looked into the mirror, I shrieked and
- 2:30:37Speaker 9: my heart throbbed, for not myself did I see therein
- 2:30:41Speaker 9: but a devil's grimace and derision. Verily, all too well
- 2:30:45Speaker 9: do I understand the dreams, portent and monition. My doctrine
- 2:30:50Speaker 9: is in danger. Tears wont to be called wheat mine.
- 2:30:54Speaker 9: Enemies have grown powerful and have disfigured the likeness of
- 2:30:57Speaker 9: my doctrine, so that my dearest ones have to blush
- 2:31:00Speaker 9: for the gifts that I gave them. Lost are my friends?
- 2:31:04Speaker 9: The hourreth come for me to seek my lost ones.
- 2:31:08Speaker 9: With these words, Zarathustra started up, not however, like a
- 2:31:12Speaker 9: person in anguish seeking relief, but rather like a seer
- 2:31:15Speaker 9: and a singer whom the spirit inspireth with amazement. Did
- 2:31:20Speaker 9: his eagle and serpent gaze upon him for a coming
- 2:31:23Speaker 9: bliss overspread his countenance like the rosy dawn. What hath
- 2:31:28Speaker 9: happened to me? Mine animals, said Zarathustra, Am I not transformed?
- 2:31:33Speaker 9: Hath not bliss come unto me like a whirlwind? Foolish
- 2:31:37Speaker 9: is my happiness, and foolish things? Will it speak? It
- 2:31:40Speaker 9: is still too young, so half patience with it?
- 2:31:43Speaker 8: Wounded?
- 2:31:44Speaker 9: Am I by my happiness? All sufferers shall be physicians
- 2:31:48Speaker 9: unto me? To my friends, can I again go down?
- 2:31:52Speaker 9: And also to mine enemies? Zarathustra can again speak and
- 2:31:55Speaker 9: bestow and show his best love to his loved ones.
- 2:32:01Speaker 9: My impatient love overfloweth in streams down towards sunrise and sunset,
- 2:32:07Speaker 9: out of silent mountains and storms of affliction, rusheth my
- 2:32:11Speaker 9: soul into the valleys. Too long have I longed and
- 2:32:15Speaker 9: looked into the distance? Too long? Hath solitude possessed me?
- 2:32:19Speaker 9: Thus I have unlearned to keep silence utterance? Have I
- 2:32:23Speaker 9: become altogether and the brawling of a brook from high
- 2:32:26Speaker 9: rocks downward into the valleys. Will I hurl my speech
- 2:32:31Speaker 9: and let the stream of my love sweep into unfrequented channels?
- 2:32:35Speaker 9: How should a stream not finally find its way to
- 2:32:37Speaker 9: the sea? Forsooth there is a lake in me, sequestered
- 2:32:42Speaker 9: in self sufficing. But the stream of my love beareth
- 2:32:45Speaker 9: this all along with it down to the sea. New
- 2:32:51Speaker 9: paths do I tread? A new speech cometh unto me? Tired?
- 2:32:55Speaker 9: Have I become like all creators of the old tongues?
- 2:32:59Speaker 9: No longer? Will my spirit walk on worn out souls
- 2:33:03Speaker 9: too slowly runneth all speaking for me into thy chariot.
- 2:33:07Speaker 9: Oh storm, do I leap? And even thee will I
- 2:33:10Speaker 9: whip with my spite like a cry and a huszah?
- 2:33:14Speaker 9: Will I traverse the wide seas till I find the
- 2:33:16Speaker 9: happy isles where my friends sojourn, and my enemies amongst them?
- 2:33:21Speaker 9: How now I love everyone unto whom I may but speak,
- 2:33:25Speaker 9: even mine enemies pertain to my bliss. And when I
- 2:33:28Speaker 9: want to mount my wildest horse, then doth my spear
- 2:33:31Speaker 9: always help me up? Best? It is my foot's ever
- 2:33:34Speaker 9: ready servant, the spear which I hurl at mine enemies.
- 2:33:38Speaker 9: How grateful am I to mine enemies, that I may
- 2:33:40Speaker 9: at last hurl it?
- 2:33:43Speaker 2: Too?
- 2:33:43Speaker 9: Great hath been the tension of my cloud TwixT laughters
- 2:33:46Speaker 9: of lightning? Will I cast hail showers into the depths violently?
- 2:33:51Speaker 9: Will my breast then heave violently? Will it blow its
- 2:33:54Speaker 9: storm over the mountains? Thus cometh its assuagement, verily, like
- 2:34:00Speaker 9: a storm cometh my happiness and my freedom. But mine
- 2:34:03Speaker 9: enemies shall think that the evil one roareth over their heads.
- 2:34:08Speaker 9: Yea ye, also my friends will be alarmed by my
- 2:34:11Speaker 9: wild wisdom, and perhaps ye will flee therefrom along with
- 2:34:15Speaker 9: mine enemies. Ah that I knew how to lure you
- 2:34:18Speaker 9: back with shepherd's flutes, Ah that my lioness wisdom would
- 2:34:22Speaker 9: learn to roar softly. And much have we already learned
- 2:34:26Speaker 9: with one another. My wild wisdom became pregnant on the
- 2:34:31Speaker 9: lonesome mountains, on the rough stones did she bear the
- 2:34:34Speaker 9: youngest of her young. Now runneth she foolishly in the
- 2:34:37Speaker 9: arid wilderness, and seeketh and seeketh the soft sword, mine
- 2:34:42Speaker 9: old wild wisdom on the soft sword of your hearts,
- 2:34:46Speaker 9: my friends, on your love, would she fain couch her
- 2:34:49Speaker 9: dearest one? Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Chapter twenty three,
- 2:35:03Speaker 9: Part two, Chapter twenty four. In the Happy Aisles, the
- 2:35:12Speaker 9: figs fall far from the trees. They're good and sweet,
- 2:35:15Speaker 9: and in falling the red skins of them break a
- 2:35:19Speaker 9: north wind. Am I to write figs? Thus? Like figs?
- 2:35:23Speaker 9: Did these doctrines fall for you? My friends? Imbibe? Now
- 2:35:27Speaker 9: they're juice in their sweet substance. It is autumn all around,
- 2:35:31Speaker 9: in clear sky and afternoon. Lo what fullness is around us?
- 2:35:38Speaker 9: And out of the midst of superabundance, it is delightful
- 2:35:41Speaker 9: to look out upon distant seas. Once did people say
- 2:35:46Speaker 9: God when they looked out upon distant seas? Now, however,
- 2:35:51Speaker 9: I have taught you to say superman. God is a conjecture.
- 2:35:56Speaker 9: But I do not wish your conjecturing to reach beyond
- 2:35:59Speaker 9: your creating will. Could ye create a God?
- 2:36:05Speaker 6: Then?
- 2:36:05Speaker 9: I pray you be silent about all gods, But ye
- 2:36:08Speaker 9: could well create the Superman? Not perhaps ye yourselves, my brethren,
- 2:36:14Speaker 9: but into fathers and forefathers of the Superman. Could ye
- 2:36:17Speaker 9: transform yourselves and let that be your best creating God
- 2:36:23Speaker 9: is a conjecture. But I should like your conjecturing restricted
- 2:36:27Speaker 9: to the conceivable, Could ye conceive a God? But let
- 2:36:34Speaker 9: this mean will to truth unto you, that everything be
- 2:36:37Speaker 9: transformed into the humanly conceivable, the humanly visible, the humanly sensible.
- 2:36:44Speaker 9: Your own discernment shall ye follow out to the end.
- 2:36:49Speaker 9: And what ye have called the world shall but be
- 2:36:51Speaker 9: created by you, your reason, your likeness, your will, your love.
- 2:36:57Speaker 9: Shall it itself become for your bliss? Ye discerning ones?
- 2:37:04Speaker 9: And how would ye endure life without that hope? Ye
- 2:37:07Speaker 9: discerning ones? Neither in the inconceivable could ye have been born,
- 2:37:12Speaker 9: nor in the irrational, but that I may reveal my
- 2:37:16Speaker 9: heart entirely unto you, my friends, if there were gods,
- 2:37:21Speaker 9: how could I endure it to be no God? Therefore
- 2:37:25Speaker 9: there are no gods? Yea, I have drawn the conclusion. Now,
- 2:37:30Speaker 9: however doth it draw me? God is a conjecture? But
- 2:37:35Speaker 9: who could drink all the bitterness of this conjecture without dying?
- 2:37:39Speaker 9: Shall his faith be taken from the creating One, and
- 2:37:42Speaker 9: from the eagle his flights into eagle heights. God is
- 2:37:48Speaker 9: a thought. It maketh all the straight crooked, and all
- 2:37:51Speaker 9: that standeth real, what time would be gone, and all
- 2:37:55Speaker 9: the perishable would be but a lie? To think this
- 2:37:59Speaker 9: is giddiness, and to go to human limbs, and even
- 2:38:01Speaker 9: vomiting to the stomach. Verily, the reeling sickness do I
- 2:38:05Speaker 9: call it? To congesture? Such a thing.
- 2:38:09Speaker 7: Evil?
- 2:38:09Speaker 9: Do I call it? And misanthropic? All that teaching about
- 2:38:13Speaker 9: the one and the planum, and the unmoved, and the
- 2:38:16Speaker 9: sufficient and the imperishable, all the imperishable, that's but a simile,
- 2:38:22Speaker 9: and the poets lie too much. But of time and
- 2:38:26Speaker 9: of becoming, shall the best simile speak? A praise shall
- 2:38:30Speaker 9: they be? And a justification of all perishableness. Creating that
- 2:38:36Speaker 9: is the great salvation from suffering and life's alleviation. But
- 2:38:42Speaker 9: for the Creator to appear suffering itself is needed. And
- 2:38:46Speaker 9: much transformation, yea much bitter dying must there be in
- 2:38:51Speaker 9: your life, Ye creators. Thus are ye advocates and justifiers
- 2:38:56Speaker 9: of all perishableness. For the Creator himself to be the
- 2:39:00Speaker 9: newborn child, he must also be willing to be the
- 2:39:03Speaker 9: child bearer and endure the pangs of the child bearer. Verily,
- 2:39:09Speaker 9: through a hundred souls went I my way, and through
- 2:39:12Speaker 9: a hundred cradles in birth throws many a farewell have
- 2:39:16Speaker 9: I taken. I know the heartbreaking last hours, But so
- 2:39:21Speaker 9: willth that my creating will my fate. Or to tell
- 2:39:26Speaker 9: you it more candidly, just such a fate. Willeth my
- 2:39:30Speaker 9: will all feeling suffereth in me and is in prison.
- 2:39:36Speaker 9: But my willing ever cometh to me as mine emancipator
- 2:39:40Speaker 9: and comforter willing emancipateth. This is the true doctrine of
- 2:39:46Speaker 9: will and emancipation. So teacheth you Zarathustra, no longer willing,
- 2:39:53Speaker 9: and no longer valuing, and no longer creating, Ah, that
- 2:39:57Speaker 9: that great debility may never be far from me. And
- 2:40:02Speaker 9: also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating
- 2:40:05Speaker 9: and evolving delight? And if there be innocence in my knowledge,
- 2:40:09Speaker 9: it is because there is will to procreation in it
- 2:40:14Speaker 9: away from God and God's did this will allure me?
- 2:40:18Speaker 9: What would there be to create if there were gods?
- 2:40:22Speaker 9: But to man? Doth it ever impel me? Anew, my
- 2:40:25Speaker 9: fervent creative will thus impelleth it the hammer to the stone.
- 2:40:31Speaker 9: Ah Ye, men within the stone slumberth an image for me,
- 2:40:35Speaker 9: the image of my visions, Ah, that it should slumber
- 2:40:39Speaker 9: in the hardest, ugliest stone. Now rageth my hammer ruthlessly
- 2:40:44Speaker 9: against its prison. From the stone, fly the fragments. What's
- 2:40:49Speaker 9: that to me? I will complete it? For a shadow
- 2:40:52Speaker 9: came unto me, the stillest and lightest of all things
- 2:40:56Speaker 9: once came unto me. The beauty of the south came
- 2:41:00Speaker 9: unto me as a shadow. Ah, my brethren, of what
- 2:41:04Speaker 9: account now are the gods to me? Thus spake Zarathustra.
- 2:41:12Speaker 9: End of Chapter twenty four, Part two, Chapter twenty five,
- 2:41:24Speaker 9: The pitiful, my friends, there at the risen a satire
- 2:41:32Speaker 9: on your friend. Behold, Zarathustra walkes he not amongst us,
- 2:41:38Speaker 9: as if amongst animals. But it is better said in
- 2:41:42Speaker 9: this wise, the discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.
- 2:41:50Speaker 9: Man himself is to the discerning one the animal with
- 2:41:53Speaker 9: red cheeks? How had that happened unto him? Is it not?
- 2:41:58Speaker 9: Because he hath had to be ashamed? Too? Oft? Oh,
- 2:42:02Speaker 9: my friends, thus speaketh the discerning one Shame, shame, shame.
- 2:42:08Speaker 9: That is the history of man. And on that account
- 2:42:13Speaker 9: doth the noble one enjoin upon himself not to abash bashfulness?
- 2:42:18Speaker 9: Doth he enjoin on himself in presence of all sufferers.
- 2:42:23Speaker 9: Verily I like them, not the merciful ones, whose bliss
- 2:42:26Speaker 9: is in their pity to destitute. Are they of bashfulness?
- 2:42:31Speaker 9: If I must be pitiful, I dislike to be called so.
- 2:42:35Speaker 9: And if I be so, it is preferably at a distance.
- 2:42:39Speaker 9: Preferably Also do I shroud my head and flee before
- 2:42:42Speaker 9: being recognized? And thus do I bid you do, my friends,
- 2:42:48Speaker 9: May my destiny ever lead unafflicted ones like you across
- 2:42:52Speaker 9: my path, and those with whom I may have hope
- 2:42:55Speaker 9: and repast and honey in common. Verily I have done
- 2:42:59Speaker 9: this and that for the afflicted. But something better did
- 2:43:02Speaker 9: I always seem to do when I had learned to
- 2:43:05Speaker 9: enjoy myself better. Since humanity came into being, man hath
- 2:43:10Speaker 9: enjoyed himself too little. That alone, my brethren, is our
- 2:43:14Speaker 9: original sin. And when we learn better to enjoy ourselves,
- 2:43:19Speaker 9: then do we unlearn best to give pain unto others
- 2:43:22Speaker 9: and to contrive pain. Therefore do I wash the hand
- 2:43:27Speaker 9: that helped the sufferer? Therefore do I wipe also my soul,
- 2:43:32Speaker 9: For in seeing the sufferer suffering, thereof was I ashamed
- 2:43:36Speaker 9: on account of his shame, and in helping him sorely
- 2:43:39Speaker 9: did I wound his pride. Great obligations do not make
- 2:43:44Speaker 9: grateful but revengeful. And when a small kindness is not forgotten,
- 2:43:48Speaker 9: it becometh a gnawing worm. Be shy and accepting distinguished
- 2:43:53Speaker 9: by accepting. Thus do I advise those who have naught
- 2:43:57Speaker 9: to bestow ay. However, I'm a bestower. Willingly do I
- 2:44:02Speaker 9: bestow as friend to friends strangers, however, and the poor
- 2:44:06Speaker 9: may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree. Thus
- 2:44:10Speaker 9: doth it cause less shame beggars, However, one should entirely
- 2:44:15Speaker 9: do away with Verily, it annoyeth one to give unto them,
- 2:44:20Speaker 9: and it annoyeth one not to give unto them. And likewise,
- 2:44:24Speaker 9: sinners and bad consciences. Believe me, my friends, the sting
- 2:44:28Speaker 9: of conscience teacheth one to sting. The worst things, however,
- 2:44:33Speaker 9: are the petty thoughts. Verily better to have done evily
- 2:44:37Speaker 9: than to have thought pettily. To be sure, ye say,
- 2:44:42Speaker 9: the delight in petty evils spareth one many a great
- 2:44:45Speaker 9: evil deed. But here one should not wish to be spary.
- 2:44:50Speaker 9: Like a boil. Is the evil deed it itcheth and
- 2:44:53Speaker 9: irritateth and breaketh forth. It speaketh honorably. Behold, I I
- 2:45:00Speaker 9: am a disease, saith the evil deed that is its honorableness.
- 2:45:07Speaker 9: But like infection is the petty thought. It creepeth and hideth,
- 2:45:11Speaker 9: and wanteth to be nowhere until the whole body is
- 2:45:15Speaker 9: decayed and withered by the petty infection. To him, however,
- 2:45:19Speaker 9: who is possessed of a devil, I should whisper this
- 2:45:22Speaker 9: word in the ear. Better for THEE to rear up
- 2:45:25Speaker 9: thy devil. Even for thee there is still a path
- 2:45:29Speaker 9: to greatness. Ah, my brethren, one knoweth a little too
- 2:45:34Speaker 9: much about every one, and many a one becometh transparent
- 2:45:38Speaker 9: to us. But we still can, by no means penetrate him.
- 2:45:43Speaker 9: It is difficult to live among men because silence is
- 2:45:46Speaker 9: so difficult. And not to him who is offensive to
- 2:45:50Speaker 9: us are we most unfair. But to him who doth
- 2:45:53Speaker 9: not concern us at all. If however, thou hast a
- 2:45:58Speaker 9: suffering friend, then be arresting place for his suffering, like
- 2:46:02Speaker 9: a hard bed. However a camp bed, thus wilt thou
- 2:46:06Speaker 9: serve him best. And if a friend doeth THEE wrong,
- 2:46:11Speaker 9: then say I forgive thee. What thou hast done unto me,
- 2:46:15Speaker 9: that thou hast done it unto thyself? However, how could
- 2:46:18Speaker 9: I forgive that? Thus speakest all great love. It surpasseth
- 2:46:24Speaker 9: even forgiveness and pity. One should hold fast one's heart,
- 2:46:29Speaker 9: for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's
- 2:46:33Speaker 9: head run away? Ah? Where in the world have there
- 2:46:37Speaker 9: been greater follies than with the pitiful? And what in
- 2:46:41Speaker 9: the world hath caused more suffering than the follies of
- 2:46:43Speaker 9: the pitiful? Woe unto all loving ones who have not
- 2:46:47Speaker 9: an elevation which is above their pity. Thus spake the
- 2:46:52Speaker 9: devil unto me once on a time. Even God hath
- 2:46:56Speaker 9: his hell. It is his love for man. And lately
- 2:47:01Speaker 9: did I hear him say these words. God is dead
- 2:47:06Speaker 9: of his pity for man hath God died, So be
- 2:47:10Speaker 9: ye warned against pity. From thence there yet cometh unto
- 2:47:15Speaker 9: men a heavy cloud. Verily I understand whether signs, but
- 2:47:21Speaker 9: attend also to this word. All great love is above
- 2:47:25Speaker 9: all its pity, for it seeketh to create what is loved.
- 2:47:32Speaker 9: Myself do I offer unto my love and my neighbor
- 2:47:35Speaker 9: as myself? Such is the language of all creators. All creators, however,
- 2:47:43Speaker 9: are hard. Thus spake Zarathustra, end of Chapter twenty five,
- 2:47:58Speaker 9: Part two, Chapter twenty six. The priests, And one day
- 2:48:07Speaker 9: Zarathustra made a sign to his disciples and spake these
- 2:48:11Speaker 9: words unto them. Here are priests, But although they are mine,
- 2:48:16Speaker 9: enemies pass them quietly and with sleeping swords. Even among
- 2:48:21Speaker 9: them there are heroes. Many of them have suffered too much,
- 2:48:25Speaker 9: so they want to make others suffer. Bad enemies are they?
- 2:48:30Speaker 9: Nothing is more revengeful than their meekness. And readily doth
- 2:48:34Speaker 9: he soil himself who toucheth them. But my blood is
- 2:48:38Speaker 9: related to theirs, and I want withal to see my
- 2:48:41Speaker 9: blood honored in theirs. And when they had passed, a
- 2:48:45Speaker 9: pain attack Zarathustra. But not long had he struggled with
- 2:48:49Speaker 9: the pain when he began to speak. Thus it moveth
- 2:48:53Speaker 9: my heart for those priests. They also go against my taste.
- 2:48:58Speaker 9: But that is the smallest matter unto me, since I
- 2:49:00Speaker 9: am among men. But I suffer and have suffered with them.
- 2:49:05Speaker 9: Prisoners are they unto me? And stigmatized ones? He whom
- 2:49:10Speaker 9: they call savior put them in fetters and fetters are
- 2:49:13Speaker 9: false virtues and fatuous words. Oh, that someone would save
- 2:49:18Speaker 9: them all from their savior. On an aisle, they once
- 2:49:22Speaker 9: thought they had landed when the sea tossed them about.
- 2:49:26Speaker 9: But behold it was a slumbering monster. False virtues and
- 2:49:32Speaker 9: fatuous words. These are the worst monsters for mortals. Long
- 2:49:37Speaker 9: slumbereth and waiteth the faith that is in them. But
- 2:49:41Speaker 9: at last it cometh, and awaketh, and devoureth and engulfeth
- 2:49:45Speaker 9: whatever hath built tabernacles upon it. Oh, just look at
- 2:49:50Speaker 9: those tabernacles which those priests have built themselves churches they
- 2:49:54Speaker 9: call their sweet smelling caves. Oh, that falsified light, that mustified,
- 2:50:00Speaker 9: where the soul may not fly aloft to its height.
- 2:50:05Speaker 9: But so enjoineth their belief on your knees up the stair,
- 2:50:09Speaker 9: ye sinners, Verily, rather would I see a shameless one
- 2:50:13Speaker 9: than the distorted eyes of their shame and devotion? Who
- 2:50:18Speaker 9: created for themselves such caves and penitent stairs? Was it
- 2:50:22Speaker 9: not those who sought to conceal themselves and were ashamed
- 2:50:25Speaker 9: under the clear sky? And only when the clear sky
- 2:50:29Speaker 9: look at again through ruined roofs, and down upon grass
- 2:50:32Speaker 9: and red poppies on ruined walls, while I again turn
- 2:50:36Speaker 9: my heart to the seats of this God. They called
- 2:50:40Speaker 9: God that which opposed and afflicted them. And verily there
- 2:50:44Speaker 9: was much hero spirit in their worship, and they knew
- 2:50:48Speaker 9: not how to love their God otherwise, And by nailing
- 2:50:51Speaker 9: men to the cross as corpses, they thought to live
- 2:50:56Speaker 9: in black draped they their corpses. Even in their talk,
- 2:51:00Speaker 9: do I still fill the evil flavor of charnel houses?
- 2:51:04Speaker 9: And he who liveth nigh unto them, liveth nigh unto blackpools?
- 2:51:08Speaker 9: Wherein the toad singeth this song with sweet gravity? Better songs?
- 2:51:13Speaker 9: Would they have to sing for me to believe in
- 2:51:16Speaker 9: their savior more like save ones? Would his disciples have
- 2:51:20Speaker 9: to appear unto me naked? Would I like to see them?
- 2:51:25Speaker 9: For beauty alone should preach penitence. But whom would that
- 2:51:29Speaker 9: disguised affliction convince? Verily, their saviors themselves came not from
- 2:51:35Speaker 9: freedom and from freedom seventh heaven. Verily, they themselves never
- 2:51:40Speaker 9: trod the carpets of knowledge of defects. Did the spirit
- 2:51:45Speaker 9: of those saviors consist? But into every defect had they
- 2:51:49Speaker 9: put their illusion their stock gap, which they called God?
- 2:51:54Speaker 9: In their pity was their spirit drowned, And when they
- 2:51:57Speaker 9: swelled and overswelled with pity, there always floated to the
- 2:52:01Speaker 9: surface a great folly. Eagerly and with shouts drove they
- 2:52:06Speaker 9: their flock over their footbridge, as if there were but
- 2:52:09Speaker 9: one footbridge to the future. Verily, those shepherds also were
- 2:52:14Speaker 9: still of the flock. Small spirits and spacious souls had
- 2:52:19Speaker 9: those shepherds. But my brethren, what small domains have even
- 2:52:23Speaker 9: the most spacious souls? Hitherto ben characters of blood? Did
- 2:52:29Speaker 9: they write on the way they went? And their folly
- 2:52:31Speaker 9: taught the truth is proved by blood. But blood is
- 2:52:35Speaker 9: the very worst witness to truth. Blood tainteth the purest
- 2:52:39Speaker 9: teaching and turneth it into delusion and hatred of heart.
- 2:52:44Speaker 9: And when a person goeth through fire for his teaching,
- 2:52:47Speaker 9: what doth that prove? It?
- 2:52:50Speaker 8: Is?
- 2:52:50Speaker 6: More?
- 2:52:50Speaker 9: Verily, when out of one's own burning cometh one's own teaching.
- 2:52:55Speaker 9: Sultry heart and cold head, where these meet their arise
- 2:53:00Speaker 9: the blusterer the savior. Greater ones, verily have there been,
- 2:53:06Speaker 9: and higher born ones than those whom the people call saviors,
- 2:53:10Speaker 9: those rapturous blusterers, and by still greater ones than any
- 2:53:14Speaker 9: of the saviors. Must ye be saved, my brethren, if
- 2:53:18Speaker 9: ye would find the way to freedom. Never yet hath
- 2:53:22Speaker 9: there been a superman naked? Have I seen both of them?
- 2:53:26Speaker 9: The greatest man and the smallest man, all too similar?
- 2:53:31Speaker 9: Are they still to each other? Verily, even the greatest
- 2:53:34Speaker 9: found I all too human? Thus spake Zarathustra. End of
- 2:53:44Speaker 9: Chapter twenty six, Part two, Chapter twenty seven. The virtuous,
- 2:54:00Speaker 9: with thunder and heavenly fireworks. Must one speak to indolent
- 2:54:04Speaker 9: and somnolent senses. But Beauty's voice speaketh gently. It appealeth
- 2:54:10Speaker 9: only to the most awakened souls, gently vibrated and laughed
- 2:54:17Speaker 9: unto me to day, my buckler, It was Beauty's holy
- 2:54:20Speaker 9: laughing and thrilling at you. Ye virtuous ones laughed my
- 2:54:25Speaker 9: beauty to day, and thus came its voice unto me.
- 2:54:30Speaker 9: They want to be paid. Besides, ye want to be paid. Besides, ye,
- 2:54:35Speaker 9: virtuous ones, ye want reward for virtue, and Heaven for earth,
- 2:54:39Speaker 9: and eternity for your to day. And now ye upbraid
- 2:54:44Speaker 9: me for teaching that there is no reward giver nor
- 2:54:47Speaker 9: pay master. And verily I do not even teach that
- 2:54:50Speaker 9: virtue is its own reward. Ah, this is my sorrow.
- 2:54:55Speaker 9: Into the basis of things have reward and punishment been insinuated,
- 2:55:00Speaker 9: And now even into the basis of your souls, ye,
- 2:55:03Speaker 9: virtuous ones. But like the snout of the boar, shall
- 2:55:08Speaker 9: my word grub up the basis of your souls? A plowshare?
- 2:55:12Speaker 9: Will I be called by you? All the secrets of
- 2:55:16Speaker 9: your heart shall be brought to light. And when ye
- 2:55:19Speaker 9: line the sun grubbed up and broken, then will also
- 2:55:22Speaker 9: your falsehood be separated from your truth? For this is
- 2:55:28Speaker 9: your truth. Ye are too pure for the filth of
- 2:55:32Speaker 9: the words vengeance, punishment, recompense, retribution. Ye love your virtue
- 2:55:39Speaker 9: as a mother loveth her child. But when did one
- 2:55:42Speaker 9: hear of a mother wanting to be paid for her love?
- 2:55:46Speaker 9: It is your dear self, your virtue. The ring's thirst
- 2:55:50Speaker 9: is in you to reach itself again. Struggleth every ring
- 2:55:54Speaker 9: and turneth itself. And like the star that goeth out,
- 2:55:58Speaker 9: so is every work of your virtue. Ever is its
- 2:56:02Speaker 9: light on your way and traveling? And when will it
- 2:56:04Speaker 9: cease to be on its way? Thus is the light
- 2:56:08Speaker 9: of your virtue still on its way. Even when its
- 2:56:11Speaker 9: work is done, be it forgotten and dead? Still its
- 2:56:15Speaker 9: ray of light, liveth and traveleth. That your virtue is yourself,
- 2:56:21Speaker 9: and not an outward thing, a skin or a cloak.
- 2:56:24Speaker 9: That is the truth, from the basis of your souls,
- 2:56:27Speaker 9: ye virtuous ones. But sure enough there are those to
- 2:56:31Speaker 9: whom virtue meaneth writhing under the lash, and ye have
- 2:56:35Speaker 9: hearkened too much onto their crying. And others are there
- 2:56:39Speaker 9: who call virtue the slothfulness of their vices. And when
- 2:56:43Speaker 9: once their hatred and jealousy relax the limbs, their justice
- 2:56:48Speaker 9: becometh lively and rubbeth its sleepy eyes. And others are
- 2:56:53Speaker 9: there who are drawn downwards their devils draw them. But
- 2:56:57Speaker 9: the more they sink, the more ardently gloweth their eye,
- 2:57:00Speaker 9: and the longing for their god Ah. Their crying also
- 2:57:05Speaker 9: has reached your ears. The virtuous ones, what I am
- 2:57:10Speaker 9: not that that is God to me? And virtue? And
- 2:57:15Speaker 9: others are there who go along heavily and creakingly like
- 2:57:19Speaker 9: carts taking stones downhill. They talk much of dignity and virtue.
- 2:57:24Speaker 9: Their drag they call virtue. And others are there who
- 2:57:29Speaker 9: are like eight day clocks. When wound up, they tick
- 2:57:32Speaker 9: and want people to call ticking virtue verily in those
- 2:57:38Speaker 9: I have mine amusement. Wherever I find such clocks, I
- 2:57:42Speaker 9: shall wind them up with my mockery, and they shall
- 2:57:45Speaker 9: even wor thereby. And others are proud of their modicum
- 2:57:50Speaker 9: of righteousness, and for the sake of it, do violence
- 2:57:53Speaker 9: to all things, so that the world is drowned in
- 2:57:56Speaker 9: their unrighteousness. Netley cometh the word virtue out of their mouth.
- 2:58:03Speaker 9: And when they say I am just, it always soundeth
- 2:58:06Speaker 9: like I am just. Revenged with their virtues, they want
- 2:58:12Speaker 9: to scratch out the eyes of their enemies, and they
- 2:58:14Speaker 9: elevate themselves only that they may lower others. And again
- 2:58:20Speaker 9: there are those who would sit in their swamp and
- 2:58:22Speaker 9: speak thus from among the bullrushes virtue, that is, to
- 2:58:27Speaker 9: sit quietly in the swamp. We bite no one, and
- 2:58:30Speaker 9: go out of the way of him who would bite.
- 2:58:33Speaker 9: And in all matters we have the opinion that is
- 2:58:35Speaker 9: given us. And again there are those who love attitudes
- 2:58:41Speaker 9: and think that virtue is a sort of attitude. Their
- 2:58:44Speaker 9: knees continually adore in their hands are eulogies of virtue,
- 2:58:49Speaker 9: but their heart knoweth not thereof. And again there are
- 2:58:53Speaker 9: those who regard it as virtue to say virtue is necessary.
- 2:58:58Speaker 9: But after all they believe only that the policemen are necessary.
- 2:59:03Speaker 9: And many a one who cannot see men's loftiness calleth
- 2:59:06Speaker 9: it virtue to see their baseness far too well. Thus
- 2:59:10Speaker 9: calleth he his evil eye virtue. And some want to
- 2:59:16Speaker 9: be edified and raised up and call it virtue, and
- 2:59:19Speaker 9: others want to be cast down and likewise call it virtue.
- 2:59:24Speaker 9: And thus do almost all think that they participate in virtue.
- 2:59:28Speaker 9: And at least everyone claimeth to be an authority on
- 2:59:31Speaker 9: good and evil. But Zarathustra came not to say, unto
- 2:59:36Speaker 9: all those liars and fools, what do ye know of virtue?
- 2:59:40Speaker 9: What could ye know of virtue? But that ye, my friends,
- 2:59:44Speaker 9: might become weary of the old words which ye have
- 2:59:46Speaker 9: learned from the fools and liars, That ye might become
- 2:59:51Speaker 9: weary of the words reward, retribution, punishment, righteous vengeance, that
- 2:59:59Speaker 9: ye might become weir of saying that an action is
- 3:00:02Speaker 9: good is because it is unselfish. Ah, my friends, that
- 3:00:08Speaker 9: your very self be in your action, as the mother
- 3:00:11Speaker 9: is in the child. Let that be your formula of virtue.
- 3:00:16Speaker 9: Verily I have taken upon you one hundred formulae and
- 3:00:19Speaker 9: your virtue's favorite playthings. And now ye upbraid me, as
- 3:00:23Speaker 9: children upbraid. They played by the sea. Then came their
- 3:00:28Speaker 9: wave and swept their playthings into the deep. And now
- 3:00:31Speaker 9: do they cry. But the same wave shall bring them
- 3:00:36Speaker 9: new playthings, and spread before them new speckled shells. Thus
- 3:00:41Speaker 9: will they be comforted, And like them shall ye also,
- 3:00:44Speaker 9: my friends, have your comforting and new speckled shells. Thus
- 3:00:49Speaker 9: spake Zarathustra. End of Chapter twenty seven, Part two, Chapter
- 3:01:05Speaker 9: twenty eight. The rabble life is well of delight. But
- 3:01:13Speaker 9: where the rabble also drink, they're all fountains are poisoned
- 3:01:18Speaker 9: to everything cleanly. I am well disposed, but I hate
- 3:01:22Speaker 9: to see the grinning mouths in the thirst of the unclean.
- 3:01:27Speaker 9: They cast their eye down into the fountain, and now
- 3:01:30Speaker 9: it glanceth up to me their odious smile out of
- 3:01:33Speaker 9: the fountain. The holy water have they poison with their lustfulness.
- 3:01:38Speaker 9: And when they called their filthy dreams delight, then poison
- 3:01:42Speaker 9: they also The words indignant becometh a flame. When they
- 3:01:48Speaker 9: put their damp heart to the fire, the spirit itself
- 3:01:51Speaker 9: bubbleth and smoketh. When the rabble approacheth the fire mawkish
- 3:01:57Speaker 9: and overmellow, becometh the fruit in their hands, steady and
- 3:02:00Speaker 9: withered at the top, doth their look make the fruit tree.
- 3:02:05Speaker 9: And many a one who hath turned away from life
- 3:02:08Speaker 9: hath only turned away from the rabble. He hated to
- 3:02:11Speaker 9: share with them fountain, flame and fruit. And many a
- 3:02:16Speaker 9: one who hath gone into the wilderness and suffered thirst
- 3:02:19Speaker 9: with beasts of prey, disliked only to sit at the
- 3:02:23Speaker 9: cistern with filthy camel drivers. And many a one who
- 3:02:27Speaker 9: hath come along as a destroyer and as a hailstorm
- 3:02:31Speaker 9: to all corn fields, wanted merely to put his foot
- 3:02:34Speaker 9: into the jaws of the rabble, and thus stopped their throat.
- 3:02:38Speaker 9: And it is not the mouthful which hath most choked
- 3:02:41Speaker 9: me to know that life itself requireth enmity, and death
- 3:02:44Speaker 9: and torture crosses. But I asked once, and suffocated almost
- 3:02:50Speaker 9: with my question, what is the rabble? Also necessary for life?
- 3:02:56Speaker 9: Are poisoned fountains, necessary in stinking fire, in filthy dreams,
- 3:03:01Speaker 9: and maggots in the bread of life? Not my hatred,
- 3:03:05Speaker 9: but my loathing, not hungrily at my life. Ah ofttimes
- 3:03:11Speaker 9: became I weary of spirit when I found even the
- 3:03:14Speaker 9: rabble spiritual, and on the rulers turned eye my back
- 3:03:19Speaker 9: when I saw what they now call ruling to traffic
- 3:03:22Speaker 9: and bargain for power with the rabble amongst peoples of
- 3:03:27Speaker 9: a strange language? Did I dwell with stopped ears? So
- 3:03:31Speaker 9: that the language of their trafficking might remain strange unto me,
- 3:03:35Speaker 9: and their bargaining for power? And holding my nose? I
- 3:03:39Speaker 9: went morosely through all yesterdays into days, verily badly smell
- 3:03:44Speaker 9: all yesterdays into days of the scribbling rabble, like a cripple,
- 3:03:50Speaker 9: become deaf and blind and dumb. Thus have I lived
- 3:03:54Speaker 9: long that I might not live with the power rabble,
- 3:03:57Speaker 9: the scribe rabble, and the pleasure rabble toilsomely? Did my
- 3:04:02Speaker 9: spirit mount stairs? And cautiously alms of delight were its
- 3:04:06Speaker 9: refreshment on the staff? Did life creep along with the
- 3:04:11Speaker 9: blind one? What hath happened unto me? How have I
- 3:04:15Speaker 9: freed myself from loathing? Who hath rejuvenated mine eye? How
- 3:04:21Speaker 9: have I flown to the height where no rabble any
- 3:04:24Speaker 9: longer sit at the wells? Did my loathing itself create
- 3:04:29Speaker 9: for me? Wings and fountain divining powers verily to the
- 3:04:33Speaker 9: loftiest height. Had I to fly to find again the
- 3:04:36Speaker 9: well of delight? Oh, I have founded my brethren here
- 3:04:42Speaker 9: on the loftiest height. Bubbleth up for me the well
- 3:04:45Speaker 9: of delight, And there is a life at whose waters
- 3:04:48Speaker 9: none of the rabble drink with me? Almost too violently,
- 3:04:53Speaker 9: dost thou flow for me, thou fountain of delight? And
- 3:04:56Speaker 9: often emptiest thou the goblet again in wanting to feel it?
- 3:05:02Speaker 9: And yet I must learn to approach thee more modestly,
- 3:05:06Speaker 9: far too violently, doth my heart still flow towards thee,
- 3:05:10Speaker 9: my heart on which my summer burneth, my short, hot,
- 3:05:13Speaker 9: melancholy over happy summer, How my summer heart longeth for
- 3:05:18Speaker 9: thy coolness, past the lingering distress of my spring, past
- 3:05:24Speaker 9: the wickedness of my snowflakes. In June summer? Have I
- 3:05:28Speaker 9: become entirely and summer noontide a summer on the loftiest height,
- 3:05:35Speaker 9: with cold fountains and blissful stillness. Oh come, my friends,
- 3:05:39Speaker 9: that the stillness may become more blissful. For this is
- 3:05:43Speaker 9: our height and our home. Too high and steep. Do
- 3:05:47Speaker 9: we here dwell for all uncleanly ones and their thirst.
- 3:05:52Speaker 9: Cast but your pure eyes into the well of my delight,
- 3:05:55Speaker 9: my friends, how could it become turbid? Thereby it shall
- 3:05:59Speaker 9: last back to you with its purity, on the tree
- 3:06:04Speaker 9: of the future. Build we our nest. Eagles shall bring
- 3:06:08Speaker 9: us lone one's food in their beaks. Verily, no food
- 3:06:13Speaker 9: of which the impure could be fellow partakers fire, would
- 3:06:17Speaker 9: they think they devoured and burned their mouths. Verily no
- 3:06:22Speaker 9: abodes do we here keep ready for the impure? An
- 3:06:26Speaker 9: ice cave to their bodies, would our happiness be? And
- 3:06:29Speaker 9: to their spirits? And as strong winds will we live
- 3:06:33Speaker 9: above them, neighbors to the eagles, neighbors to the snow,
- 3:06:38Speaker 9: neighbors to the sun. Thus live the strong winds. And
- 3:06:43Speaker 9: like a wind, will I one day blow amongst them,
- 3:06:47Speaker 9: and with my spirit take the breath from their spirit.
- 3:06:50Speaker 9: Thus willeth my future. Verily a strong wind is Zarathustra
- 3:06:56Speaker 9: to all low places, And this council counselth he to
- 3:07:00Speaker 9: his enemies, and to whatever spitteth and speweth, take care
- 3:07:05Speaker 9: not to spit against the wind. Thus spake Zarathustra. End
- 3:07:12Speaker 9: of Chapter twenty eight, Part two, Chapter twenty nine. The
- 3:07:21Speaker 9: tarantulas lo This is the tarantuli's den. Wouldst thou see
- 3:07:29Speaker 9: the tarantula itself here hangeth its web, touch this so
- 3:07:34Speaker 9: that it may tremble. Here cometh the tarantula willingly welcome. Tarantula.
- 3:07:41Speaker 9: Black on thy back is thy triangle and symbol. And
- 3:07:44Speaker 9: I know also what is in thy soul. Revenge is
- 3:07:49Speaker 9: in thy soul. Wherever if thou bitest, there arise at
- 3:07:53Speaker 9: black scab with revenge. Thy poison maketh the soul giddy.
- 3:07:59Speaker 9: Thus I speak unto you in parable, ye who make
- 3:08:02Speaker 9: the soule giddy? Ye, preachers of equality. Tarantulas are ye
- 3:08:07Speaker 9: unto me and secretly revengeful ones. But I will soon
- 3:08:12Speaker 9: bring your hiding places to the light. Therefore do I
- 3:08:16Speaker 9: laugh in your face, my laughter of the height. Therefore
- 3:08:21Speaker 9: do I tear at your web, that your rage may
- 3:08:23Speaker 9: lure you out of your den of lies, and that
- 3:08:26Speaker 9: your revenge may leap forth from behind your word justice.
- 3:08:31Speaker 9: Because for man to be redeemed for revenge, that is
- 3:08:36Speaker 9: for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a
- 3:08:38Speaker 9: rainbow after long storms. Otherwise, however, would the tarantulas have it?
- 3:08:45Speaker 9: Let it be very justice for the world to become
- 3:08:48Speaker 9: full of the storms of our vengeance. Thus do they
- 3:08:51Speaker 9: talk to one another vengeance, will we use and insult
- 3:08:56Speaker 9: against all who are not like us? Thus do the
- 3:09:00Speaker 9: RTLA hearts pledge themselves and will to equality, that itself
- 3:09:05Speaker 9: shall henceforth be the name of virtue. And against all
- 3:09:09Speaker 9: that hath power, will we raise and outcry, ye, preachers
- 3:09:14Speaker 9: of equality, The tyrant frenzy of impotence crieth us in
- 3:09:18Speaker 9: you for equality, your most secret tyrant longings disguise themselves.
- 3:09:23Speaker 9: Thus in virtue words fred it conceit and suppressed envy.
- 3:09:28Speaker 9: Perhaps your fathers concede and envy, and you break they
- 3:09:32Speaker 9: forth as flame and frenzy of vengeance. What the Father
- 3:09:37Speaker 9: hath hid cometh out in the sun, And oft have
- 3:09:40Speaker 9: I found in the son The fathers revealed secret inspired
- 3:09:45Speaker 9: ones they resemble. But it is not the heart that
- 3:09:48Speaker 9: inspireth them, but vengeance. And when they become subtle and cold,
- 3:09:53Speaker 9: it is not spirit but envy that maketh them. So
- 3:09:58Speaker 9: their jealousy leadeth thing them also into thinkers paths. And
- 3:10:02Speaker 9: this is the sign of their jealousy. They always go
- 3:10:05Speaker 9: too far, so that their fatigue hath at last to
- 3:10:08Speaker 9: go to sleep on the snow, and all their lamentations
- 3:10:13Speaker 9: soundeth vengeance, and all their eulogies is maleficence, and being
- 3:10:18Speaker 9: judged seemeth to them bliss. But thus do I counsel you,
- 3:10:23Speaker 9: my friends, Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish
- 3:10:26Speaker 9: is powerful. They are people of bad race and lineage.
- 3:10:31Speaker 9: Out of their countenances peer, the hangman and the sleuth hound.
- 3:10:36Speaker 9: Distrust all those who talk much of their justice barely
- 3:10:40Speaker 9: in their souls. Not only honey is lacking. And when
- 3:10:45Speaker 9: they call themselves the good and just, forget not that
- 3:10:48Speaker 9: for them to be pharisees. Nothing is lacking but power,
- 3:10:53Speaker 9: My friends, I will not be mixed up and confounded
- 3:10:56Speaker 9: with others. There are those who preach my doctrine of
- 3:11:00Speaker 9: life and are at the same time preachers of equality
- 3:11:04Speaker 9: and tarantulas. That they speak in favor of life, though
- 3:11:08Speaker 9: they sit in their den, these poisoned spiders and withdrawn
- 3:11:12Speaker 9: from life, is because they would thereby due injury to
- 3:11:17Speaker 9: those would they thereby do injury who have power at present?
- 3:11:21Speaker 9: For with those the preaching of death is still most
- 3:11:24Speaker 9: at home. Were it otherwise, than would the tarantulists teach otherwise,
- 3:11:29Speaker 9: and they themselves were formerly the best world maligners and
- 3:11:33Speaker 9: heretic burners. With these preachers of equality, will I not
- 3:11:39Speaker 9: be mixed up and confounded? For thus speaketh justice unto me?
- 3:11:44Speaker 9: Men are not equal, and either shall they become? So?
- 3:11:49Speaker 9: What would be my love to the Superman? If I
- 3:11:52Speaker 9: spake otherwise on a thousand bridges and peers? Shall they
- 3:11:56Speaker 9: throng to the future? And always shall there be more
- 3:12:00Speaker 9: war and inequality among them? Thus doth my great love
- 3:12:04Speaker 9: make me speak in vendors of figures and phantoms? Shall
- 3:12:09Speaker 9: they be in their hostilities? And with those figures and phantoms?
- 3:12:13Speaker 9: Shall they yet fight with each other? The Supreme fight
- 3:12:17Speaker 9: good and evil, and rich and poor, and high and low,
- 3:12:21Speaker 9: in all names of values weapons? Shall they be in
- 3:12:25Speaker 9: sounding signs that life must again and again surpass itself aloft?
- 3:12:31Speaker 9: Will it build itself with columns and stairs? Life itself
- 3:12:36Speaker 9: into remote distances? Would it gaze and out towards blissful beauties? Therefore,
- 3:12:42Speaker 9: doth it require elevation? And because it requireth elevation, therefore
- 3:12:47Speaker 9: doth it requires steps and variants of steps and climbers
- 3:12:52Speaker 9: to rise striveth life and in rising to surpass itself.
- 3:12:57Speaker 9: And just behold, my friends, where the tarantula's den is
- 3:13:01Speaker 9: rise at a loft and ancient temple's ruins. Just behold
- 3:13:05Speaker 9: it with enlightened eyes. Verily, he who here towered aloft
- 3:13:10Speaker 9: his thoughts in stone knew as well as the wisest
- 3:13:13Speaker 9: ones about the secrets of life, that there is struggle
- 3:13:17Speaker 9: and inequality even in beauty, and war for power and supremacy.
- 3:13:22Speaker 9: That doth he here teach us in the plainest parable,
- 3:13:26Speaker 9: how divinely DeVault and art here contrast in the struggle,
- 3:13:30Speaker 9: how with light and shade they strive against each other,
- 3:13:34Speaker 9: the divinely striving ones. Thus, steadfast and beautiful, let us
- 3:13:39Speaker 9: also be enemies, my friends, divinely will we strive against
- 3:13:44Speaker 9: one another. Alas there hath the tarantula bit me myself
- 3:13:49Speaker 9: mine old enemy, divinely steadfast and beautiful it hath bit
- 3:13:54Speaker 9: me on the finger. Punishment must there be, and justice,
- 3:13:59Speaker 9: So thinketh it not gratuitously shall hear he sing songs
- 3:14:03Speaker 9: in honor of enemity. Yea it hath revenged itself, And
- 3:14:08Speaker 9: alas now it will make my soul also dizzy with
- 3:14:11Speaker 9: revenge that I may not turn dizzy. However, bind me fast,
- 3:14:16Speaker 9: my friends to this pillar. Rather will I be a
- 3:14:20Speaker 9: pillar saint than a whirl of vengeance. Verily, no cyclone
- 3:14:25Speaker 9: or whirlwind is Zarathustra. And if he be a dancer,
- 3:14:29Speaker 9: he is not at all a tarantula dancer. Thus spake Zarathustra.
- 3:14:37Speaker 9: End of Chapter twenty nine, Part two, Chapter thirty. The
- 3:14:46Speaker 9: famous wise Ones. The people have ye served in the
- 3:14:52Speaker 9: people's superstition, not the truth, all, ye famous wise ones.
- 3:14:58Speaker 9: And just on that account they pay you reverence. And
- 3:15:02Speaker 9: on that account also did they tolerate your unbelief because
- 3:15:06Speaker 9: it was a pleasantry and a bypath for the people.
- 3:15:09Speaker 9: Thus doth the master give free scope to his slaves,
- 3:15:13Speaker 9: and even enjoyeth their presumptuousness. But he who is hated
- 3:15:18Speaker 9: by the people as the wolf by the dogs, is
- 3:15:21Speaker 9: the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non adore
- 3:15:25Speaker 9: dweller in the woods, to hunt him out of his
- 3:15:29Speaker 9: lair that was always called sense of right by the
- 3:15:32Speaker 9: people on him, do they still hound their sharpest toothed dogs,
- 3:15:38Speaker 9: For there the truth is where the people are. Woe
- 3:15:41Speaker 9: woe to the seeking ones. Thus has it echoed through
- 3:15:44Speaker 9: all time. Your people, would ye justify in their reverence
- 3:15:49Speaker 9: that called ye wil to truth, Ye famous wise ones,
- 3:15:53Speaker 9: And your heart hath always said to itself, From the
- 3:15:57Speaker 9: people have I come from? Thence came to me also
- 3:16:00Speaker 9: the voice of God. Stiff necked and artful like the
- 3:16:05Speaker 9: ass have ye always been as the advocates of the people,
- 3:16:09Speaker 9: and many a powerful one who wanted to run well
- 3:16:12Speaker 9: with the people. Hath harnessed in front of his horses,
- 3:16:15Speaker 9: a donkey, a famous wise man. And now ye, famous
- 3:16:20Speaker 9: wise ones, I would have you finally throw off entirely
- 3:16:23Speaker 9: the skin of the lion, the skin of the beast
- 3:16:27Speaker 9: of prey, the speckled skin, and the disheveled locks of
- 3:16:30Speaker 9: the investigator, the searcher, and the conqueror.
- 3:16:34Speaker 10: Ah.
- 3:16:35Speaker 9: For me to learn to believe in your conscientiousness, ye
- 3:16:38Speaker 9: would first have to break your venerating will conscientious. So
- 3:16:43Speaker 9: call I him who goeth into god forsaken wildernesses, And
- 3:16:47Speaker 9: hath broken his venerating heart in the yellow sands, and
- 3:16:51Speaker 9: burnt by the sun. He doubtless peres thirstily at the
- 3:16:55Speaker 9: isles rich in fountains, where life reposeth under shady trees.
- 3:17:01Speaker 9: But his thirst doth not persuade him to become like
- 3:17:04Speaker 9: those comfortable ones. For where there are oases, there are
- 3:17:08Speaker 9: also idols, hungry, fierce, lonesome, god forsaken. So doth the
- 3:17:15Speaker 9: lion will wish itself free from the happiness of slaves,
- 3:17:20Speaker 9: redeemed from deities and adorations, fearless and fear inspiring, grand
- 3:17:25Speaker 9: and lonesome. So is the will of the conscientious. In
- 3:17:30Speaker 9: the wilderness have ever dwelt the conscientious the free spirits
- 3:17:34Speaker 9: as lords of the wilderness. But in the cities dwell
- 3:17:37Speaker 9: the well foddered, famous, wise ones, the drought beasts. For
- 3:17:42Speaker 9: always do they draw as asses the people's carts, Not
- 3:17:48Speaker 9: that I on that account upbraid them. But serving ones
- 3:17:52Speaker 9: do they remain and harnessed ones, even though they glitter
- 3:17:56Speaker 9: in golden harness. And often have they been good servants
- 3:18:00Speaker 9: and worthy of their hire. For thus saith virtue. If
- 3:18:05Speaker 9: thou must be a servant, seek him under whom thy
- 3:18:08Speaker 9: service is most useful. The spirit and virtue of thy
- 3:18:12Speaker 9: master shall advance by thou being his servant. Thus wilt
- 3:18:16Speaker 9: thou thy self advance with his spirit and virtue. And verily,
- 3:18:21Speaker 9: ye famous, wise ones, ye servants are the people ye
- 3:18:25Speaker 9: yourselves have advanced with the people's spirit and virtue, and
- 3:18:28Speaker 9: the people by you to your honor, do I say it,
- 3:18:33Speaker 9: but the people ye remain for me, even with your virtues,
- 3:18:37Speaker 9: the people with purblind eyes, the people who know not
- 3:18:40Speaker 9: what spirit is. Spirit is life, which itself cutteth into
- 3:18:45Speaker 9: life by its own torture. Doth it increase its own knowledge?
- 3:18:50Speaker 9: Did ye know that before and the Spirit's happiness is
- 3:18:54Speaker 9: this to be anointed and consecrated with tears as a
- 3:18:59Speaker 9: sacrificial victim. Did ye know that before and the blindness
- 3:19:04Speaker 9: of the blind one, and his seeking and groping, shall
- 3:19:07Speaker 9: yet testify to the power of the sun into which
- 3:19:10Speaker 9: ye hath gazed. Did ye know that before and with
- 3:19:14Speaker 9: mountain shall the discerning one learn to build? It is
- 3:19:17Speaker 9: a small thing for the spirit to remove mountains. Did
- 3:19:20Speaker 9: ye know that? Before ye know only the sparks of
- 3:19:24Speaker 9: the spirit, But ye do not see the anvil which
- 3:19:27Speaker 9: it is, and the cruelty of its hammer. Verily ye
- 3:19:31Speaker 9: know not the Spirit's pride. But still less could ye
- 3:19:35Speaker 9: endure the spirit's humility should it ever want to speak?
- 3:19:39Speaker 9: And never yet could ye cast your spirit into a
- 3:19:42Speaker 9: pit of snow year not hot enough for that? Thus
- 3:19:47Speaker 9: are ye unaware also of the delight of its coldness?
- 3:19:52Speaker 9: In all respects, however, ye make too familiar with the spirit,
- 3:19:56Speaker 9: and out of wisdom have ye often made an almshouse
- 3:20:00Speaker 9: in a hospital for bad poets? Ye are not eagles?
- 3:20:04Speaker 9: Thus have ye never experienced the happiness of the alarm
- 3:20:07Speaker 9: of the spirit. And he who was not a bird
- 3:20:10Speaker 9: should not camp above abysses? Ye seem to me lukewarm ones,
- 3:20:16Speaker 9: but coldly floweth all deep knowledge? Ice cold are the
- 3:20:20Speaker 9: innermost wells of the spirit, or a freshmen to hot
- 3:20:22Speaker 9: hands and handlers respectable? Do ye there stand and stiff
- 3:20:28Speaker 9: and with straight backs, ye famous wise ones? No strong
- 3:20:32Speaker 9: wind or will impelleth you. Have ye ne'er seen a
- 3:20:35Speaker 9: sail crossing the sea, rounded and inflated, and trembling with
- 3:20:39Speaker 9: the violence of the wind. Like the sail trembling with
- 3:20:43Speaker 9: the violence of the spirit. Doth my wisdom cross the sea,
- 3:20:46Speaker 9: my wild wisdom? But ye servants of the people, ye
- 3:20:51Speaker 9: famous wise ones, How could ye go with me? Thus
- 3:20:56Speaker 9: spake Zarathustra. End of Chapter thirty Part two, Chapter thirty one.
- 3:21:09Speaker 9: The night song tis night. Now do all gushing fountains
- 3:21:15Speaker 9: speak louder, and my soul also is a gushing fountain.
- 3:21:21Speaker 9: Tis night now only do all songs of the loving
- 3:21:24Speaker 9: ones awake, And my soul also is the song of
- 3:21:28Speaker 9: a loving one. Something unappeased, unappeasable is within me. It
- 3:21:35Speaker 9: longeth to find expression. A craving for love is within me,
- 3:21:39Speaker 9: which speaketh itself the language of love. Light am I,
- 3:21:44Speaker 9: Ah that I were night? But it is my lonesomeness
- 3:21:48Speaker 9: to be begirt with light? Ah, that I were dark
- 3:21:52Speaker 9: and nightly? How would I suck at the breasts of
- 3:21:55Speaker 9: light and you yourselves? Would I bless ye twinkling starlets,
- 3:22:00Speaker 9: worms aloft, and would rejoice in the gifts of your light?
- 3:22:05Speaker 9: But I live in my own light. I drink again
- 3:22:08Speaker 9: into myself the flames that break forth from me. I
- 3:22:12Speaker 9: know not the happiness of the receiver, And oft have
- 3:22:15Speaker 9: I dreamt that stealing must be more blessed than receiving.
- 3:22:20Speaker 9: It is my poverty that my hand never ceaseth bestowing.
- 3:22:24Speaker 9: It is mine envy that I see waiting eyes and
- 3:22:27Speaker 9: the brightened nights of longing. Oh the misery of all
- 3:22:32Speaker 9: the stowers, Oh the darkening of my sun, Oh the
- 3:22:36Speaker 9: craving to crave of the violent hunger and satiety they
- 3:22:42Speaker 9: take for me. But do I yet touch their soul?
- 3:22:45Speaker 9: There is a gap TwixT giving and receiving, and the
- 3:22:48Speaker 9: smallest gap hath finally to be bridged over A hunger
- 3:22:53Speaker 9: ariseth out of my beauty. I should like to injure
- 3:22:56Speaker 9: those I illumine. I should like to rob those I
- 3:22:59Speaker 9: have gifted. Thus do I hunger for wickedness? Withdrawing my
- 3:23:04Speaker 9: hand what another hand already stretcheth out to it, hesitating
- 3:23:08Speaker 9: like the cascade which hesitateth even in its leap. Thus
- 3:23:12Speaker 9: do I hunger for wickedness? Such revenge doth mine abundance?
- 3:23:16Speaker 9: Think of such mischief welleth out of my lonesomeness. My
- 3:23:21Speaker 9: happiness in bestowing died in bestowing. My virtue became weary
- 3:23:26Speaker 9: of itself by its abundance. He whoever bestoweth is in
- 3:23:30Speaker 9: danger of losing his shame to him whoever dispenseth. The
- 3:23:35Speaker 9: hand and heart become callous by very dispensing. Mine eye
- 3:23:40Speaker 9: no longer overfloweth for the shame of suppliance. My hand
- 3:23:44Speaker 9: hath become too hard for the trembling of filled hands.
- 3:23:48Speaker 9: Whence have gone the tears of mine eye and the
- 3:23:51Speaker 9: down of my heart. Oh, the lonesomeness of all bestowers, Oh,
- 3:23:56Speaker 9: the silence of all shining ones. Many suns circle in
- 3:24:01Speaker 9: desert space to all that is dark, do they speak
- 3:24:05Speaker 9: their light? But to me they are silent. Oh, this
- 3:24:10Speaker 9: is the hostility of light to the shining one. Unpityingly?
- 3:24:14Speaker 9: Doth it pursue its course? Unfair to the shining one
- 3:24:19Speaker 9: in its innermost heart? Cold to the sun's Thus traveleth
- 3:24:23Speaker 9: every sun like a storm. Do the suns pursue their courses?
- 3:24:29Speaker 9: That is their traveling, their inexorable will? Do they follow?
- 3:24:34Speaker 9: That is their coldness?
- 3:24:37Speaker 7: Oh?
- 3:24:37Speaker 9: Ye only is it ye dark nightly ones that extract
- 3:24:41Speaker 9: warmth from the shining ones. Oh ye only drink milk
- 3:24:45Speaker 9: and refreshment from the lights utters. Ah, there is ice
- 3:24:49Speaker 9: around me. My hand burneth with the iciness. Ah, there
- 3:24:53Speaker 9: is thirst in me. It panteth after your thirst. Tis night,
- 3:24:59Speaker 9: alas that I have to be light and thirst for
- 3:25:03Speaker 9: the nightly and lonesomeness. Tis night. Now, doth my longing
- 3:25:08Speaker 9: break forth in me as a fountain for speech? Do
- 3:25:11Speaker 9: I long? Tis night? Now? Do all gushing fountains speak louder,
- 3:25:18Speaker 9: and my soul also is a gushing fountain. Tis night.
- 3:25:24Speaker 9: Now do all songs of loving ones awake? And my
- 3:25:28Speaker 9: soul also is the song of a loving one. Thus
- 3:25:32Speaker 9: sang Zarathustra. End of Chapter thirty one, Part two, Chapter
- 3:25:44Speaker 9: thirty two, The Dance Song. One evening went Zarathustra and
- 3:25:50Speaker 9: his disciples through the forest, and when he sought for
- 3:25:53Speaker 9: a well low he lighted upon a green meadow, peacefully
- 3:25:57Speaker 9: surrounded with trees and bushes, where maiden were dancing together.
- 3:26:02Speaker 9: As soon as the maidens recognize Zarathustra, they cease dancing. Zarathustra, however,
- 3:26:08Speaker 9: reproached them with friendly mien and spake these words, cease
- 3:26:12Speaker 9: not your dancing, ye lovely maidens. No game spoiler. Hath
- 3:26:16Speaker 9: come to you with evil eye? No enemy of maidens,
- 3:26:21Speaker 9: God's advocate? Am I with the devil? He, however, is
- 3:26:24Speaker 9: the spirit of gravity. How could I, ye lightfooted ones,
- 3:26:29Speaker 9: be hostile to divine dances or to maiden's feet with
- 3:26:32Speaker 9: fine ankles? To be sure, I am a forest and
- 3:26:37Speaker 9: a knight of dark trees. But he was not afraid
- 3:26:40Speaker 9: of my darkness. Will find banks full of roses under
- 3:26:43Speaker 9: my sigh presses, and even the little God may he
- 3:26:47Speaker 9: find who is dearest to maidens? Beside the well liath
- 3:26:51Speaker 9: he quietly with closed eyes, verily in broad daylight? Did
- 3:26:56Speaker 9: he fall asleep? The sluggard? Had he perhaps chased butterfly
- 3:27:00Speaker 9: too much? Upbraid me not, ye beautiful dancers. When I
- 3:27:04Speaker 9: chasten the Little God somewhat, he will cry, certainly and weep,
- 3:27:09Speaker 9: but he is laughable even when weeping, And with tears
- 3:27:13Speaker 9: in his eyes. Shall he ask you for a dance,
- 3:27:16Speaker 9: And I myself will sing a song to his dance,
- 3:27:20Speaker 9: a dance song and satire on the spirit of gravity,
- 3:27:23Speaker 9: my supremest, powerfulest devil, who is said to be lord
- 3:27:27Speaker 9: of the world. And this is the song that Zarathustra
- 3:27:32Speaker 9: sang when Cupid and the maidens danced together. Of late,
- 3:27:36Speaker 9: did I gaze into thine eye O life, and into
- 3:27:40Speaker 9: the unfathomable? Did I there seem to sink? But thou
- 3:27:44Speaker 9: pull'dest me out with a golden angle derisively? Didst thou
- 3:27:49Speaker 9: laugh when I called the unfathomable? Such is the language
- 3:27:53Speaker 9: of all fish, saidest thou. What they do not fathom
- 3:27:57Speaker 9: is unfathomable, changeable. Am I only and wild and altogether
- 3:28:02Speaker 9: a woman, and no virtuous one, thoughhy be called by
- 3:28:06Speaker 9: you men the profound one, or the faithful one, the
- 3:28:10Speaker 9: eternal one, the mysterious one. But ye men endow us
- 3:28:15Speaker 9: always with your own virtue, alas ye virtuous ones. Thus
- 3:28:20Speaker 9: did she laugh, the unbelievable one, But never do I
- 3:28:23Speaker 9: believe her and her laughter when she speaketh evil of herself.
- 3:28:28Speaker 9: And when I talked face to face with my wild wisdom,
- 3:28:32Speaker 9: she said to me angrily, thou willest thou cravest thou
- 3:28:36Speaker 9: lovest on that account alone dost thou praise life? Then
- 3:28:42Speaker 9: had I almost answered indignantly and told the truth to
- 3:28:45Speaker 9: the angry one. And one cannot answer more indignantly than
- 3:28:49Speaker 9: when one telleth the truth to one's wisdom. For thus
- 3:28:54Speaker 9: do things stand with us? Three in my heart do
- 3:28:58Speaker 9: I love only life, and verily most when I hate her,
- 3:29:03Speaker 9: But that I am fond of wisdom, and often too fond,
- 3:29:06Speaker 9: It is because she remindeth me very strongly of life.
- 3:29:11Speaker 9: She hath her eye, her laugh, and even her golden angle.
- 3:29:14Speaker 9: Rod Am I responsible for it that both are so alike?
- 3:29:19Speaker 9: And when once life asked me who is she? Then
- 3:29:22Speaker 9: this wisdom? Then I said eagerly, Ah, Yes, wisdom, one
- 3:29:28Speaker 9: thirsteth for her and is not satisfied. One looketh through veils,
- 3:29:32Speaker 9: one graspeth through nets. Is she beautiful? What do I know?
- 3:29:38Speaker 9: But the oldest carps are still lured by her? Changeable
- 3:29:42Speaker 9: is she? And wayward? Often have I seen her bite
- 3:29:45Speaker 9: her lip and pass the comb against the grain of
- 3:29:47Speaker 9: her hair. Perhaps she is wicked and false, and altogether
- 3:29:51Speaker 9: a woman. But when she speaketh ill of herself, just
- 3:29:54Speaker 9: then doth she seduced most? When I had said that
- 3:30:00Speaker 9: son to life? Then laughed she maliciously and shut her eyes.
- 3:30:04Speaker 9: Of whom dost thou speak? Said she? Perhaps of me?
- 3:30:09Speaker 9: And if thou wert right, is it proper to say
- 3:30:12Speaker 9: that in such wise to my face? But now pray
- 3:30:16Speaker 9: speak also of thy wisdom. Ah. And now hast thou
- 3:30:20Speaker 9: again open thine eyes, O, beloved life, And into the unfathomable?
- 3:30:25Speaker 9: Have I again seemed to sink? Thus sang Zarathustra. But
- 3:30:31Speaker 9: when the dance was over and the maidens had departed,
- 3:30:34Speaker 9: he became sad. The sun hath been long, said said he.
- 3:30:38Speaker 9: At last the meadow is damp, and from the forest
- 3:30:42Speaker 9: cometh coolness. An unknown presence is about me, and gaze
- 3:30:46Speaker 9: it thoughtfully. What thou livest still, Zarathustra? Why wherefore, whereby whither?
- 3:30:54Speaker 7: Where?
- 3:30:55Speaker 9: How is it not falling still? To live? My friends?
- 3:31:00Speaker 9: The evening is it? Which thus interrogateth in me. Forgive
- 3:31:05Speaker 9: me my sadness. Evening hath come on? Forgive me that
- 3:31:09Speaker 9: evening hath come on? Thus sang Zarathustra. End of Chapter
- 3:31:16Speaker 9: thirty two, Part two, Chapter thirty three. The grave song
- 3:31:29Speaker 9: yonder is the grave island, the silent isle yonder also
- 3:31:33Speaker 9: are the graves of my youth. Thither will I carry
- 3:31:37Speaker 9: an evergreen wreath of life, resolving Thus in my heart
- 3:31:41Speaker 9: did I sail over the sea, Oh ye sights and
- 3:31:45Speaker 9: scenes of my youth? Oh all ye gleams of love,
- 3:31:49Speaker 9: Ye divine fleeting gleams. How could ye perish so soon?
- 3:31:53Speaker 9: For me? Think of you today as my dead ones.
- 3:31:59Speaker 9: From you, my dearest dead ones, cometh unto me a
- 3:32:02Speaker 9: sweet savor, heart opening and melting. Verily it convulseth and
- 3:32:07Speaker 9: openeth the heart of the lone seafarer. Still am I
- 3:32:12Speaker 9: the richest and most to be envied, I the lonesomest one.
- 3:32:17Speaker 9: For I have possessed you and ye possess me still
- 3:32:22Speaker 9: tell me to whom hath there ever fallen such rosy
- 3:32:26Speaker 9: apples from the tree as have fallen unto me? Still
- 3:32:31Speaker 9: am I your love's air and heritage, blooming to your
- 3:32:35Speaker 9: memory with many hued, wild growing virtues. Oh, ye dearest ones, Ah,
- 3:32:42Speaker 9: we were made to remain nigh unto each other, Ye
- 3:32:45Speaker 9: kindly strange marvels, and not like timid birds. Did ye
- 3:32:49Speaker 9: come to me in my longing?
- 3:32:51Speaker 7: Nay?
- 3:32:51Speaker 9: But as trusting ones too? A trusting one, YEA made
- 3:32:56Speaker 9: for faithfulness like me and for fond eternities. Must die?
- 3:33:00Speaker 10: Now?
- 3:33:01Speaker 9: Name you by your faithlessness, ye, divine glances in fleeting gleams.
- 3:33:06Speaker 9: No other name have I yet learned? Verily too early?
- 3:33:11Speaker 9: Did ye die for me? Ye? Fugitives? Yet did ye
- 3:33:15Speaker 9: not flee from me? Nor did I flee from you? Innocent?
- 3:33:19Speaker 9: Are we to each other in our faithlessness? To kill me?
- 3:33:24Speaker 9: Did they strangle you, ye, singing birds of my hopes?
- 3:33:29Speaker 9: Yea at you, Ye, dearest ones? Did malice ever shoot
- 3:33:32Speaker 9: its arrows to hit my heart? And they hit it?
- 3:33:37Speaker 9: Because ye were always my dearest, My possession and my
- 3:33:40Speaker 9: possessiveness on that account had ye to die young, and
- 3:33:44Speaker 9: far too early, at my most vulnerable point did they
- 3:33:49Speaker 9: shoot the arrow, namely at you, whose skin is like down,
- 3:33:54Speaker 9: or more like the smile that dieth at a glance.
- 3:33:57Speaker 9: But this word, while I say unto mine? And what
- 3:34:01Speaker 9: is all manslaughter in comparison with what ye have done
- 3:34:05Speaker 9: unto me? Worse evil did ye do unto me than
- 3:34:09Speaker 9: all manslaughter? The irretrievable did ye take from me? Thus?
- 3:34:14Speaker 9: Do I speak unto you? Mine enemies? Slew ye not
- 3:34:18Speaker 9: my youth's vision, And dearest marvels, my playmates took ye
- 3:34:22Speaker 9: from me, the blessed spirits to their memory? Do I
- 3:34:26Speaker 9: deposit this wreath and this curse, this curse upon you,
- 3:34:29Speaker 9: mine enemies? Have ye not made mine eternal? Short as
- 3:34:33Speaker 9: a tone dieth away in a cold night? Scarcely as
- 3:34:37Speaker 9: the twinkle of divine eyes? Did it come to me
- 3:34:40Speaker 9: as a fleeting gleam? Thus spake once in a happy
- 3:34:44Speaker 9: hour my purity divine? Shall everything be unto me? Then
- 3:34:49Speaker 9: did ye haunt me with foul phantoms? Whither hath that
- 3:34:54Speaker 9: happy hour now fled? All days shall be wholly unto me?
- 3:34:59Speaker 9: So spake one the wisdom of my youth. Verily the
- 3:35:03Speaker 9: language of a joyous wisdom. But then did ye enemy
- 3:35:07Speaker 9: steal my knights and sold them to sleepless torture. Whither
- 3:35:11Speaker 9: hath that joyous wisdom now fled? Once did I long
- 3:35:16Speaker 9: for happy auspices? Then did ye lead an now a
- 3:35:19Speaker 9: monster across my path and adverse sight? Ah? Whither did
- 3:35:23Speaker 9: my tender logging then flee all loathing? Did I once
- 3:35:28Speaker 9: vow to renounce? Then did ye change mine nigh ones
- 3:35:31Speaker 9: and nearest ones into ulcerations? How whither did my noblest
- 3:35:36Speaker 9: vow then flee as a blind one? Did I once
- 3:35:40Speaker 9: walk in blessed ways? Then did ye cast filth on
- 3:35:43Speaker 9: the blind one's course? And now he is disgusted with
- 3:35:47Speaker 9: the old footpath. When I performed my hardest task and
- 3:35:52Speaker 9: celebrated the triumph my victories, then did ye make those
- 3:35:56Speaker 9: who loved me call out? That I then grieved them
- 3:35:59Speaker 9: the most fairly? It was always your doing. Ye embittered
- 3:36:03Speaker 9: to me my best honey, and the diligence of my
- 3:36:07Speaker 9: best bees to my charity? Have ye ever sent the
- 3:36:11Speaker 9: most impudent beggars around my sympathy? Have ye ever crowded
- 3:36:15Speaker 9: the incurably shameless? Thus have ye wounded the faith of
- 3:36:19Speaker 9: my virtue. And when I offered my holiest as a sacrifice,
- 3:36:25Speaker 9: immediately did your piety put its fatter gifts beside it,
- 3:36:30Speaker 9: so that my holiest suffocated in the fumes of your
- 3:36:33Speaker 9: fat And once did I want to dance? As I
- 3:36:36Speaker 9: had never yet danced? Beyond all heavens? Did I want
- 3:36:40Speaker 9: to dance? Then did ye seduce my favorite minstrel? And
- 3:36:45Speaker 9: now hath he struck up an awful, melancholy are alas
- 3:36:49Speaker 9: he tooted as a mournful horn to mine ear, murderous minstrel,
- 3:36:54Speaker 9: instrument of evil, most innocent instrument. Already did I stand
- 3:36:58Speaker 9: prepared for the best dance? Ants, then didst thou slay
- 3:37:02Speaker 9: my rapture with thy tones? Only in the dance do
- 3:37:06Speaker 9: I know how to speak the parable of the highest things?
- 3:37:10Speaker 9: And now hath my grandest parable remained unspoken in my limbs,
- 3:37:15Speaker 9: unspoken and unrealized. Hath my highest hope remained? And there
- 3:37:19Speaker 9: have perished for me all the visions and consolations of
- 3:37:23Speaker 9: my youth. How did I ever bearn How did I
- 3:37:27Speaker 9: survive and surmount such wounds? How did my soul rise
- 3:37:31Speaker 9: again out of those sepultures? Yea, something invulnerable, unbeariable, is
- 3:37:37Speaker 9: with me, something that would rend rocks asunder it is
- 3:37:41Speaker 9: called my will? Silently doth it proceed and unchanged throughout
- 3:37:48Speaker 9: the years its course? Will it go upon my feet?
- 3:37:53Speaker 9: Mine old will, heart of heart is the nature and invulnerable, invulnerable?
- 3:38:01Speaker 9: Am I only in my heel ever livest thou there?
- 3:38:05Speaker 9: And art like thyself, Thou most patient one ever hast
- 3:38:10Speaker 9: thou burst all shackles of the tomb in thee still
- 3:38:14Speaker 9: livest also the unrealizedness of my youth. And as life
- 3:38:19Speaker 9: and youth sittest thou here hopeful on the yellow ruins
- 3:38:22Speaker 9: of graves. Yea, thou art still for me, the demolisher
- 3:38:27Speaker 9: of all graves. Hail to thee my will. And only
- 3:38:32Speaker 9: where there are graves are their resurrections. Thus sang Zarathustra,
- 3:38:40Speaker 9: end of Chapter thirty three, Part two, Chapter thirty four,
- 3:38:50Speaker 9: Self surpassing will the truth? Do ye call it? Ye
- 3:38:56Speaker 9: wisest ones, that which impelleth you and maketh if you
- 3:39:00Speaker 9: ardent will for the thinkableness of all being? Thus do
- 3:39:04Speaker 9: I call your will all being? Would ye make thinkable?
- 3:39:09Speaker 9: For ye doubt with good reason whether it be already thinkable?
- 3:39:14Speaker 9: But it shall accommodate and bend itself to you. So will.
- 3:39:18Speaker 9: If your will smooth, shall it become and subject to
- 3:39:22Speaker 9: the spirit as its mirror and reflection. That is your
- 3:39:26Speaker 9: entire will. Ye wisest Ones, as a will to power.
- 3:39:30Speaker 9: And even when ye speak of good and evil, and
- 3:39:33Speaker 9: of estimates of value, ye would still create a world
- 3:39:37Speaker 9: before which ye can bow the knee, such as your
- 3:39:40Speaker 9: ultimate hope and ecstasy. The ignorant to be sure of
- 3:39:45Speaker 9: the people, they are like a river on which a
- 3:39:47Speaker 9: boat floateth along, and in the boat sits the estimates
- 3:39:51Speaker 9: of value, solemn and disguised. Your will and your valuations
- 3:39:56Speaker 9: have put ye on the river of becoming. It betrayeth
- 3:40:00Speaker 9: unto me an old will to power what is believed
- 3:40:03Speaker 9: by the people as good and evil. It was ye,
- 3:40:07Speaker 9: ye wisest Ones, who put such guests in this boat,
- 3:40:11Speaker 9: and gave them pomp and proud names. Ye and your
- 3:40:14Speaker 9: ruling will onward. The river now carrieth your boat. It
- 3:40:19Speaker 9: must carry it the small matter if the rough wave
- 3:40:23Speaker 9: foamoth and angrily resisteth its keel. It is not the
- 3:40:27Speaker 9: river that is your danger and the end of your
- 3:40:30Speaker 9: good and evil, Ye wisest Ones, but that will itself,
- 3:40:34Speaker 9: the will to power the unexhausted procreating life will But
- 3:40:39Speaker 9: that ye may understand my gospel of good and evil.
- 3:40:42Speaker 9: For that purpose, will I tell you my gospel of
- 3:40:45Speaker 9: life and of the nature of all living things. The
- 3:40:49Speaker 9: living thing did I follow? I walked in the broadest
- 3:40:53Speaker 9: and narrowest paths to learn its nature. With a hundred
- 3:40:57Speaker 9: faced mirror. Did I catch its glance when it's mouth
- 3:41:00Speaker 9: was shut, so that its eye might speak unto me?
- 3:41:04Speaker 9: And its eye spake unto me? But wherever I found
- 3:41:08Speaker 9: living things, there heard I also the language of obedience.
- 3:41:12Speaker 9: All living things are obeying things, And this I heard. Secondly,
- 3:41:18Speaker 9: whatever cannot obey itself is commanded, such as the nature
- 3:41:23Speaker 9: of living things. This, however, is the third thing which
- 3:41:28Speaker 9: I heard, namely, that commanding is more difficult than obeying,
- 3:41:33Speaker 9: and not only because the commander beareth the burden of
- 3:41:36Speaker 9: all obears, and because this burden readily crusheth him. An
- 3:41:40Speaker 9: attempt in a risk seemed all commanding unto me. And
- 3:41:43Speaker 9: whenever it commandeth, the living thing risketh itself. Thereby yea,
- 3:41:49Speaker 9: even when it commandeth itself, then also must it atone
- 3:41:53Speaker 9: for its commanding of its own law, must it become
- 3:41:57Speaker 9: the judge and avenger and victim? How doth this happen?
- 3:42:01Speaker 9: So did I ask myself, what persuadeth the living thing
- 3:42:06Speaker 9: to obey and command? And even be obedient in commanding?
- 3:42:11Speaker 9: Hearken now unto my word? Ye wisest ones tested seriously?
- 3:42:16Speaker 9: Whether I have crept into the heart of life itself
- 3:42:18Speaker 9: and into the roots of its heart. Wherever I found
- 3:42:22Speaker 9: a living thing, there found I will to power. And
- 3:42:27Speaker 9: even in the will of the servant, found I the
- 3:42:29Speaker 9: will to be master, that to the stronger the weaker
- 3:42:33Speaker 9: shall serve. There too persuadeth he his will, who would
- 3:42:37Speaker 9: be master over a still weaker one that delight alone
- 3:42:41Speaker 9: he is unwilling to forego, And as the lesser surrenderer
- 3:42:46Speaker 9: himself to the greater, that he may have delight in
- 3:42:49Speaker 9: power over the least of all. So doth even the
- 3:42:52Speaker 9: greatest surrender himself and staketh life for the sake of power.
- 3:42:58Speaker 9: It is the surrender of the greatest un risk and
- 3:43:00Speaker 9: danger and play dice for death. And where there is
- 3:43:04Speaker 9: sacrifice and service and love glances, there also is the
- 3:43:08Speaker 9: will to be master. By bye ways doth the weaker,
- 3:43:12Speaker 9: then slink into the fortress and into the heart of
- 3:43:15Speaker 9: the mightier one, And there stealeth power. And this secret
- 3:43:21Speaker 9: spake life herself unto me. Behold, said she, I am
- 3:43:27Speaker 9: that which must ever surpass itself. To be sure you
- 3:43:33Speaker 9: call it will to appropriation or impulse towards a goal,
- 3:43:36Speaker 9: towards the higher remoter and more manifold. But all that
- 3:43:40Speaker 9: is one and the same secret. Rather would I succumb
- 3:43:45Speaker 9: than disown this one thing. And verily, where there is
- 3:43:49Speaker 9: succumbing and leaf falling lo there doth life sacrifice itself
- 3:43:54Speaker 9: for power that I have to be struggle and becoming,
- 3:43:59Speaker 9: and purpose and cross purpose. Ah, He who divineth my
- 3:44:04Speaker 9: will divineth well also on what crooked paths it hath
- 3:44:08Speaker 9: to tread whatever I create, And however much I love it,
- 3:44:13Speaker 9: soon must I be adverse to it and to my love.
- 3:44:17Speaker 9: So willeth my will, And even thou, discerning one art
- 3:44:22Speaker 9: only a path and footstep of my will. Verily, my
- 3:44:26Speaker 9: will to power walketh even in the feet of thy
- 3:44:29Speaker 9: will to truth. He certainly did not hit the truth
- 3:44:34Speaker 9: who shot at it the formula will to existence, That
- 3:44:38Speaker 9: will doth not exist, for what is not cannot will that, however,
- 3:44:45Speaker 9: which is in existence, How could it still strive for existence?
- 3:44:50Speaker 9: Only where there is life is there also will not, however,
- 3:44:55Speaker 9: will to life. But so teach I thee will to power.
- 3:45:01Speaker 9: Much is reckoned higher than life itself by the living one.
- 3:45:05Speaker 9: But out of the very reckoning speaketh the will to power.
- 3:45:10Speaker 9: Thus did life, Ones teach me, And thereby ye wisest Ones,
- 3:45:14Speaker 9: Do I solve you the riddle of your hearts? Verily
- 3:45:19Speaker 9: I say unto you good and evil, which would be everlasting?
- 3:45:24Speaker 9: It doth not exist of its own accord? Must it
- 3:45:28Speaker 9: ever surpass itself anew with your values in formulae of
- 3:45:33Speaker 9: good and evil? Ye exercise power, ye, valuing Ones, And
- 3:45:38Speaker 9: that is your secret love and the sparkling, trembling and
- 3:45:41Speaker 9: overflowing of your souls. But a stronger power groweth out
- 3:45:46Speaker 9: of your values, and a new surpassing by it breaketh
- 3:45:51Speaker 9: egg and egg shell. And he who hath to be
- 3:45:55Speaker 9: a creator in good and evil, verily, he hath first
- 3:45:59Speaker 9: to be a destroyer and break values in pieces. Thus
- 3:46:04Speaker 9: doth the greatest evil pertain to the greatest good, That, however,
- 3:46:09Speaker 9: is the creating good. Let us speak thereof ye wisest ones.
- 3:46:13Speaker 9: Even though it be bad to be silent, is worse
- 3:46:17Speaker 9: all suppressed truths become poisonous. And let everything break up,
- 3:46:22Speaker 9: which can break up by our truths. Many a house
- 3:46:27Speaker 9: is still to be built, Thus spake Zarathustra. End of
- 3:46:33Speaker 9: Chapter thirty four, Part two, Chapter thirty five. The sublime
- 3:46:42Speaker 9: ones calm is the bottom of my sea. Who would
- 3:46:48Speaker 9: guess that it hideth droll monsters. Unmoved is my depth,
- 3:46:54Speaker 9: but it sparkleth with swimming enigmas and laughters. A sublime
- 3:46:59Speaker 9: one unsaw I today, a solemn one, a penitent of
- 3:47:02Speaker 9: the spirit. Oh, how my soul laughed at his ugliness
- 3:47:07Speaker 9: with upraised breast, and like those who draw in their breath.
- 3:47:10Speaker 9: Thus did he stand, the sublime one and in silence,
- 3:47:15Speaker 9: or hung with ugly truths, the spoil of his hunting
- 3:47:18Speaker 9: and rich and torn raiment. Many thorns also hung on him,
- 3:47:23Speaker 9: But I saw no rose. Not yet had he learned
- 3:47:27Speaker 9: laughing in beauty gloomy? Did this hunter return from the
- 3:47:31Speaker 9: forest of knowledge, from the fight with wild beasts? Returned
- 3:47:36Speaker 9: he home? But even yet a wild beast gazeth out
- 3:47:40Speaker 9: of his seriousness, an unconquered wild beast as a tiger,
- 3:47:45Speaker 9: doth ever he stand on the point of springing. But
- 3:47:48Speaker 9: I do not like those strained souls. Ungracious is my
- 3:47:52Speaker 9: taste towards all those self engrossed ones. And ye tell me, friends,
- 3:47:59Speaker 9: that there is to be no dispute about tastes and tasting.
- 3:48:03Speaker 9: But all life is a dispute about tastes and tasting. Taste.
- 3:48:08Speaker 9: That is weight at the same time, and scales and where,
- 3:48:12Speaker 9: and alast for every living thing that would live without
- 3:48:15Speaker 9: dispute about weight and scales and where. Should he become
- 3:48:20Speaker 9: weary of his sublimeness, this sublime one, then only will
- 3:48:25Speaker 9: his beauty begin. And then only will I taste him
- 3:48:28Speaker 9: and find him savory. And only when he turneth away
- 3:48:33Speaker 9: from himself will he overlap his own shadow and verily
- 3:48:37Speaker 9: into his son. Far too long did he sit in
- 3:48:41Speaker 9: the shade, The cheeks of the penitent of the spirit
- 3:48:44Speaker 9: become pale. He almost starved on his expectations. Contempt is
- 3:48:50Speaker 9: still in his eye, and loathing hideth in his mouth.
- 3:48:54Speaker 9: To be sure, he now resteth, but he hath not
- 3:48:56Speaker 9: yet taken rest in the sunshine, as the Ox ought
- 3:49:01Speaker 9: he to do. And his happiness should smell of the earth,
- 3:49:05Speaker 9: and not of contempt for the earth as a white ox.
- 3:49:09Speaker 9: Would I like to see him, which, snorting and lowing
- 3:49:12Speaker 9: walketh before the plowshare, And his lowing should also laud
- 3:49:16Speaker 9: all that is earthly dark? Still is his countenance. The
- 3:49:21Speaker 9: shadow of his hand danceth upon it. O'er shadowed is
- 3:49:25Speaker 9: still the sense of his eye. His deed itself is
- 3:49:30Speaker 9: still the shadow upon him. His doing obscureth the doer.
- 3:49:35Speaker 9: Not yet hath he overcome his deed? To be sure,
- 3:49:39Speaker 9: I love him in the shoulders of the ox. But
- 3:49:42Speaker 9: now do I want to see also the eye of
- 3:49:45Speaker 9: the angel also his hero will hath he still to unlearn?
- 3:49:51Speaker 9: An exalted one? Shall he be? And not only a
- 3:49:53Speaker 9: sublime one? The ether itself should raise him the willless one.
- 3:49:59Speaker 9: He hath subdued monsters, he hath solved enigmas. But he
- 3:50:03Speaker 9: should also redeem his monsters and enigmas into heavenly children,
- 3:50:08Speaker 9: should he transform them. As yet, hath his knowledge not
- 3:50:12Speaker 9: learned a smile and to be without jealousy? As yet
- 3:50:16Speaker 9: hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty? Verily
- 3:50:21Speaker 9: not in satiety? Shall his longing cease and disappear. But
- 3:50:24Speaker 9: in beauty gracefulness belongeth to the munificence of the magnanimous,
- 3:50:32Speaker 9: his arm across his head. Thus should the hero repose,
- 3:50:36Speaker 9: Thus should he also surmount his repose. But precisely to
- 3:50:42Speaker 9: the hero is beauty, the hardest thing of all, unattainable
- 3:50:46Speaker 9: as beauty by all ardent wills, A little more, a
- 3:50:50Speaker 9: little less precisely, this is much here. It is the
- 3:50:54Speaker 9: most here to stand with relaxed muscles and with unharnessed will.
- 3:51:01Speaker 9: That is the hardest for all of you, ye sublime ones.
- 3:51:06Speaker 9: When power becometh gracious and descendeth than too the visible,
- 3:51:10Speaker 9: I call such condescension beauty. And from no one do
- 3:51:15Speaker 9: I want beauty so much as from THEE. Thou powerful one.
- 3:51:19Speaker 9: Let thy goodness be thy last self conquest all evil?
- 3:51:25Speaker 9: Do I a credit to THEE? Therefore do I desire
- 3:51:28Speaker 9: of THEE the good? Verily, I have often laughed at
- 3:51:33Speaker 9: the weaklings who think themselves good because they have crippled
- 3:51:36Speaker 9: pause the virtue of the pillars. Shalt thou strive after
- 3:51:41Speaker 9: more beautiful thought that ever become and more graceful, but
- 3:51:45Speaker 9: internally harder and more sustaining. The higher it riseth yea
- 3:51:51Speaker 9: thou sublime one one day, shalt thou also be beautiful
- 3:51:55Speaker 9: and hold up to the mirror thine own beauty. Then
- 3:51:59Speaker 9: will thy soul thrill with divine desires, and there will
- 3:52:02Speaker 9: be adoration even in thy vanity. For this is the
- 3:52:07Speaker 9: secret of the soul. When the hero hath abandoned it,
- 3:52:11Speaker 9: then only approacheth it in dreams the superhero Thus spake Zarathustra.
- 3:52:21Speaker 9: End of Chapter thirty five, Part three, Chapter thirty six,
- 3:52:27Speaker 9: The Land of Culture too far? Did I fly into
- 3:52:32Speaker 9: the future, A whrror seized upon me when I looked
- 3:52:37Speaker 9: around me lo their time was my soul contemporary? Then
- 3:52:43Speaker 9: did I fly backwards, homewards and always faster. Thus did
- 3:52:48Speaker 9: I come unto you, ye present day men, and into
- 3:52:51Speaker 9: the land of culture for the first time brought iye
- 3:52:55Speaker 9: and I to see you and good desire. Fairly with
- 3:52:58Speaker 9: longing in my heart, I come. But how did it
- 3:53:02Speaker 9: turn out with me? Although so alarmed, I had yet
- 3:53:05Speaker 9: to laugh. Never did mine eye see anything so motley colored.
- 3:53:11Speaker 9: I laughed and laughed, while my foot still trembled in
- 3:53:14Speaker 9: my heart as well. Here, forsooth is the home of
- 3:53:17Speaker 9: all the paint pots, said I, with fifty patches painted
- 3:53:22Speaker 9: on faces and limbs. So sat ye there to mine astonishment,
- 3:53:25Speaker 9: ye present day men, And with fifty mirrors around you,
- 3:53:30Speaker 9: which flattered your play of colors and repeated it. Verily,
- 3:53:34Speaker 9: ye could wear no better masks, ye, present day men,
- 3:53:37Speaker 9: than your own faces, who could recognize you written all
- 3:53:43Speaker 9: over with the characters of the past, and these characters
- 3:53:46Speaker 9: also penciled over with new characters. Thus have ye concealed
- 3:53:50Speaker 9: yourselves well from all decipherers. And though one be a
- 3:53:55Speaker 9: trier of the reins, who still believeth that ye have
- 3:53:58Speaker 9: reins out of colors, ye seem to be baked and
- 3:54:02Speaker 9: out of glued scraps all times, And people gaze divers
- 3:54:08Speaker 9: colored out of your veils, all customs and beliefs speak
- 3:54:12Speaker 9: divers colored out of your gestures. He who would strip
- 3:54:17Speaker 9: you of veils and wrappers and paints and gestures would
- 3:54:20Speaker 9: just have enough left to scare the crows. Verily, I
- 3:54:25Speaker 9: myself and the sacred crow that once saw you naked
- 3:54:28Speaker 9: and without paint, and I flew away when the skeleton
- 3:54:31Speaker 9: nobled at me. Rather, would I be a day laborer
- 3:54:35Speaker 9: in the nether world and among the shades of the
- 3:54:38Speaker 9: bygone fatter and fuller than ye are. Forsooth the nether
- 3:54:42Speaker 9: worldlings this, yea, this is bitterness to my bowels that
- 3:54:48Speaker 9: I can neither endure you naked nor clothe ye present DayMen.
- 3:54:53Speaker 9: All that is unhomelike in the future, and whatever maketh
- 3:54:58Speaker 9: strayed birds shiver is verily more homelike and familiar than
- 3:55:02Speaker 9: your reality. For thus speak ye real, are we holy
- 3:55:08Speaker 9: and without faith and superstition? Thus do ye plume yourselves
- 3:55:12Speaker 9: alas even without plumes. Indeed, how would ye be able
- 3:55:18Speaker 9: to believe? Ye? Diverse colored ones? Ye, who are pictures
- 3:55:23Speaker 9: of all that have ever been believed? Perambulating refutations are
- 3:55:30Speaker 9: ye of belief itself, and a dislocation of all thought
- 3:55:35Speaker 9: untrustworthy ones. Thus do I call you, ye real ones.
- 3:55:42Speaker 9: All periods prayed against one another in your spirits, and
- 3:55:46Speaker 9: the dreams and prayings of all periods were even riller
- 3:55:49Speaker 9: than your awakeness unfruitful or ye therefore do ye like belief.
- 3:55:57Speaker 9: But he who had to create had always presaging dreams
- 3:56:01Speaker 9: and astral premonitions, and believed in believing. Half open doors
- 3:56:08Speaker 9: are ye at which grave diggers wait and this is
- 3:56:12Speaker 9: your reality. Everything deserveth to perish. Alas, how ye stand
- 3:56:18Speaker 9: there before me, ye, unfruitful ones, how lean your ribs,
- 3:56:23Speaker 9: and many of you surely have had knowledge thereof many
- 3:56:28Speaker 9: a one hath said there, hath surely a god filched
- 3:56:33Speaker 9: something from me secretly, whilst I slept fairly enough to
- 3:56:37Speaker 9: make a girl for himself. Therefrom amazing is the poverty
- 3:56:41Speaker 9: of my ribs. Thus hath spoken many a present day man. Yeah,
- 3:56:47Speaker 9: you're laughable unto me, ye present DayMen, and especially when
- 3:56:52Speaker 9: ye marvel at yourselves, and woe unto me if I
- 3:56:56Speaker 9: could not laugh at your marveling and had to swallow
- 3:56:59Speaker 9: all that is pugnant in your platters as it is, however,
- 3:57:03Speaker 9: I will make lighter of you, since I have to
- 3:57:06Speaker 9: carry what is heavy, and what matter, if beetles and
- 3:57:09Speaker 9: may bugs also alight on my load, verily, it shall
- 3:57:14Speaker 9: not on that account become heavier to me, and not
- 3:57:17Speaker 9: from you, ye present day men. Shall my great weariness arise? Ah?
- 3:57:23Speaker 9: Whither shall I now ascend with my longing? From all mountains?
- 3:57:27Speaker 9: Do I look out for fatherlands and motherlands? But a
- 3:57:31Speaker 9: home have I found nowhere? Unsettled am I in all
- 3:57:34Speaker 9: cities and decamping at all gates alien to me and
- 3:57:39Speaker 9: a mocker are the present day men to whom have
- 3:57:41Speaker 9: laid my heart, impelled me, and exiled am I from
- 3:57:45Speaker 9: fatherlands and motherlands. Thus do I love only my children's land,
- 3:57:52Speaker 9: the undiscovered in the remotest sea. For it do I
- 3:57:55Speaker 9: bid my sales, search and search? Unto my children, will
- 3:58:01Speaker 9: I make amends for being the child of my father's
- 3:58:04Speaker 9: and unto all the future for this present day? Thus
- 3:58:09Speaker 9: spake Zarathustra, end of Chapter thirty six, Part two, Chapter
- 3:58:21Speaker 9: thirty seven, immaculate perception. When yester eve the moon arose,
- 3:58:28Speaker 9: Then did I fancied about to bear a sun so
- 3:58:31Speaker 9: broad and teeming did it lie on the horizon, But
- 3:58:35Speaker 9: it was a liar with its pregnancy. And sooner will
- 3:58:38Speaker 9: I believe in the man in the moon than in
- 3:58:40Speaker 9: the woman? To be sure, little of a man is
- 3:58:44Speaker 9: he also, that timid night reveler, verily with a bad conscience.
- 3:58:49Speaker 9: Doth he stalk over the roofs free, is covetous and jealous,
- 3:58:54Speaker 9: the monk and the moon, covetous of the earth and
- 3:58:57Speaker 9: all the joys of lovers. And nay I like him,
- 3:59:00Speaker 9: not that tom cat of the roofs hateful unto me
- 3:59:04Speaker 9: are all that slink around half closed windows piously and silently.
- 3:59:09Speaker 9: Doth he stalk along in the star carpets. But I
- 3:59:12Speaker 9: like no light treading human feet on which not even
- 3:59:15Speaker 9: a spur jingleth every honest one step speaketh cat, however,
- 3:59:23Speaker 9: stealeth along over the ground, low catalc. Doth the moon
- 3:59:28Speaker 9: come along? And dishonestly this parable speak unto you sentimental dissemblers,
- 3:59:34Speaker 9: unto you the pure discerners you do I call covetous ones. Also,
- 3:59:42Speaker 9: ye love the earth and the earthly. I have divined
- 3:59:45Speaker 9: you well. But shame is in your love and a
- 3:59:48Speaker 9: bad conscience. Ye are like the moon to despise the earthly.
- 3:59:53Speaker 9: Hath your spirit been persuaded? But not your bowels, These, however,
- 3:59:57Speaker 9: are the strongest in you. And now is your spirit
- 4:00:01Speaker 9: a shame to be at the service of your bowels,
- 4:00:03Speaker 9: and goeth by ways and lying ways to escape its
- 4:00:06Speaker 9: own shame. That would be the highest thing for me.
- 4:00:11Speaker 9: So saith your lying spirit unto itself, to gaze upon
- 4:00:15Speaker 9: life without desire, and not like the dog with hanging
- 4:00:18Speaker 9: out tongue, to be happy and gazing with dead will,
- 4:00:21Speaker 9: free from the grip and greed of selfishness, cold and ashy,
- 4:00:24Speaker 9: gray all over, but with intoxicated moon eyes, that would
- 4:00:29Speaker 9: be the dearest thing to me. Thus doth the seduced
- 4:00:32Speaker 9: one seduce himself to love the earth as the moon
- 4:00:35Speaker 9: loveth it, and with the eye only to feel its beauty.
- 4:00:39Speaker 9: And this do I call immaculate perception of all things,
- 4:00:43Speaker 9: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed
- 4:00:45Speaker 9: to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets. Oh, ye,
- 4:00:50Speaker 9: sentimental dissemblers, ye covetous ones, Ye lack innocence in your desire.
- 4:00:55Speaker 9: And now do ye defame desiring on that account verily,
- 4:00:59Speaker 9: not as creators, as procreators, or as jubilators. Do ye
- 4:01:03Speaker 9: love the earth where is innocence, where there is will
- 4:01:08Speaker 9: to procreation. And he who seeketh to create beyond himself
- 4:01:12Speaker 9: hath for me the purest will, whereas beauty, where I
- 4:01:17Speaker 9: must will with my whole will, where I will love
- 4:01:21Speaker 9: and perish, that an image may not remain merely an image.
- 4:01:25Speaker 9: Loving and perishing. These have rhymed for eternity, will to love,
- 4:01:30Speaker 9: that is, to be ready also for death. Thus do
- 4:01:34Speaker 9: I speak unto you cowards. But now doth you, or
- 4:01:38Speaker 9: emasculated ogling profess to be contemplation? And that which can
- 4:01:42Speaker 9: be examined with cowardly eyes is to be christ and beautiful. Oh,
- 4:01:47Speaker 9: ye violators of noble names. But it shall be your curse,
- 4:01:51Speaker 9: ye immaculate ones, ye pure discerners, that ye shall never
- 4:01:55Speaker 9: bring forth, even though ye lie broad and teeming on
- 4:01:58Speaker 9: the horizon. Ye fill your mouth with noble words, and
- 4:02:03Speaker 9: we are to believe that your heart overfloweth, ye cousiners,
- 4:02:07Speaker 9: But my words are poor, contemptible, stammering words. Gladly do
- 4:02:11Speaker 9: I pick up what fallen from the table at your repasts?
- 4:02:15Speaker 9: It's still? Can I say therewith the truth to dissemblers? Yea,
- 4:02:20Speaker 9: My fishbone shells and prickly leaves shall tickle the noses
- 4:02:24Speaker 9: of dissemblers. Bad air is always about you and your repasts.
- 4:02:30Speaker 9: Your lascivious thoughts, your lies and secrets are indeed in
- 4:02:34Speaker 9: the air. Dare only to believe in yourselves, in yourselves
- 4:02:39Speaker 9: and in your inward parts. He who doth not believe
- 4:02:42Speaker 9: in himself always lieth a god's mask. Have ye hung
- 4:02:48Speaker 9: in front of you, ye pure ones, into a God's mask?
- 4:02:51Speaker 9: Hath your execrable coiling snake crawled verily, Ye deceive, ye
- 4:02:57Speaker 9: contemplative ones. Even ze Zareathustra was once the dupe of
- 4:03:01Speaker 9: your godlike exterior. He did not divine the serpent's coil
- 4:03:05Speaker 9: with which it was stuffed a god's soul. I once
- 4:03:09Speaker 9: thought I saw playing in your game. See pure discerners.
- 4:03:13Speaker 9: No better arts that I once dream of than your arts,
- 4:03:17Speaker 9: serpent's filth and evil odor. The distance concealed from me,
- 4:03:21Speaker 9: and that a lizard's craft prowled thereabouts lasciviously. But I
- 4:03:26Speaker 9: came nigh unto you, then came to me the day,
- 4:03:29Speaker 9: and now cometh it to you. At the end is
- 4:03:32Speaker 9: the moon's love affair. See there, surprised and pale, doth
- 4:03:37Speaker 9: it stand before the rosy dawn. For already she cometh
- 4:03:42Speaker 9: the glowing one. Her love to the earth cometh innocence
- 4:03:46Speaker 9: and creative desire is all soular love. See there, how
- 4:03:51Speaker 9: she cometh impatiently over the sea. Do ye not feel
- 4:03:55Speaker 9: the thirst and the hot breath of her love? At
- 4:03:59Speaker 9: the sea? Would she suck and drink its depths to
- 4:04:02Speaker 9: her height? Now riseth the desire of the sea, with
- 4:04:05Speaker 9: its thousand breasts kissed and sucked. Would it be by
- 4:04:10Speaker 9: the thirst of the sun vapor? Would it become in
- 4:04:13Speaker 9: height and path of light and light itself verily like
- 4:04:17Speaker 9: the sun? Do I love life in all deep seas?
- 4:04:21Speaker 9: And this meaneth to me knowledge All that is deep
- 4:04:25Speaker 9: shall ascend to my height. Thus spake Zarathustra. End of
- 4:04:33Speaker 9: Chapter thirty seven, Part two, Chapter thirty eight, Scholars. When
- 4:04:44Speaker 9: I lay asleep, then did a sheep eat at the
- 4:04:47Speaker 9: ivy wreath on my head? It ate and said thereby
- 4:04:51Speaker 9: Darathustra is no longer a scholar. It said this and
- 4:04:55Speaker 9: went away clumsily and proudly. A child told it to me,
- 4:05:00Speaker 9: I like to lie here where the children play, beside
- 4:05:03Speaker 9: the ruined wall, among thistles and red poppies. A scholar
- 4:05:08Speaker 9: am I still to the children, and also to the
- 4:05:10Speaker 9: thistles and red poppies, innocent are they even in their wickedness?
- 4:05:16Speaker 9: But to the sheep, I am no longer a scholar.
- 4:05:19Speaker 9: So willeth my lot blessings upon it, For this is
- 4:05:23Speaker 9: the truth. I have departed from the house of the scholars,
- 4:05:26Speaker 9: and the door have I also slammed behind me? Too long?
- 4:05:30Speaker 9: Did my soul sit hungry at their table. Not like them?
- 4:05:33Speaker 9: Have I got the knack of investigating as the knack
- 4:05:36Speaker 9: of nut cracking? Freedom? Do I love in the air
- 4:05:40Speaker 9: over fresh soil? Rather would I sleep on ox skins
- 4:05:43Speaker 9: than on their honors and dignities? I am too hot
- 4:05:47Speaker 9: and scorched with mine own thought? Often is it ready
- 4:05:50Speaker 9: to take away my breath? Then have I to go
- 4:05:53Speaker 9: into the open air and away from all dusty rooms?
- 4:05:58Speaker 9: But they sit cool in the cool shade. They want
- 4:06:01Speaker 9: in everything to be merely spectators, and they avoid sitting
- 4:06:06Speaker 9: where the sun burneth on the steps, like those who
- 4:06:10Speaker 9: stand in the street and gape at the passers by.
- 4:06:13Speaker 9: Thus do they also wait and gape at the thoughts
- 4:06:15Speaker 9: which others have thought? Should one lay hold of them?
- 4:06:20Speaker 9: Then do they raise a dust like flower sacks, and involuntarily?
- 4:06:24Speaker 9: But who would divine that their dust came from corn
- 4:06:26Speaker 9: and from the yellow delight of the summer fields. When
- 4:06:30Speaker 9: they give themselves out as wives, then do their petty
- 4:06:33Speaker 9: sayings and truths chill me in their wisdom? There is
- 4:06:36Speaker 9: often an odor, as if it came from the swamp,
- 4:06:39Speaker 9: And verily I have even heard the frog croak in it.
- 4:06:43Speaker 9: Clever are they they have dexterous fingers. What doth my
- 4:06:48Speaker 9: simplicity pretend to beside their multiplicity? All threading and knitting
- 4:06:53Speaker 9: and weaving do their fingers understand? Thus do they make
- 4:06:57Speaker 9: the house of the spirit? Good? Clockworks? Are they only
- 4:07:01Speaker 9: be careful to wind them up properly? Then do they
- 4:07:04Speaker 9: indicate the hour without mistake? And make a modest noise thereby?
- 4:07:10Speaker 9: Like millstones do they work, And like pestles throw only
- 4:07:14Speaker 9: seed corn unto them they know well how to grind
- 4:07:17Speaker 9: corn small and make white dust out of it. They
- 4:07:20Speaker 9: keep a sharp eye on one another, and do not
- 4:07:23Speaker 9: trust each other. The best ingenious and little artifices. They
- 4:07:27Speaker 9: wait for those whose knowledge walketh on lamb feet. Like
- 4:07:31Speaker 9: spiders do they wait? I saw them always prepare their
- 4:07:35Speaker 9: poison with precaution, and always did they put glass gloves
- 4:07:38Speaker 9: on their fingers in doing so. They also know how
- 4:07:42Speaker 9: to play with false dice, And so eagerly did I
- 4:07:45Speaker 9: find them playing that they perspired. Thereby we are alien
- 4:07:51Speaker 9: to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant
- 4:07:54Speaker 9: to my tastes, and their falsehoods and false dice. And
- 4:07:57Speaker 9: when I lived with them, then did I live above them?
- 4:08:01Speaker 9: Therefore did they take a dislike to me. They want
- 4:08:05Speaker 9: to hear nothing of anyone walking above their heads, And
- 4:08:09Speaker 9: so they put wood and earth and rubbish betwixt me
- 4:08:11Speaker 9: and their heads. Thus did they deafen the sound of
- 4:08:15Speaker 9: my tread? And least have I hitherto been heard by
- 4:08:19Speaker 9: the most learned All mankind's faults and weaknesses did they
- 4:08:24Speaker 9: put betwixt themselves and me? They call it false ceiling
- 4:08:28Speaker 9: in their houses. But nevertheless I walk with my thoughts
- 4:08:33Speaker 9: above their heads. And even should I walk on mine
- 4:08:36Speaker 9: own air, still would I be above them and their heads?
- 4:08:40Speaker 9: For men are not equal. So speaketh justice, and what
- 4:08:45Speaker 9: I will, they may not will. Thus spake Zarathustra end
- 4:08:52Speaker 9: Chapter thirty eight, Part two, Chapter thirty nine. Poets, since
- 4:09:01Speaker 9: I have known the body better, said Zarathustra to one
- 4:09:04Speaker 9: of his disciples. The spirit hath only been to me
- 4:09:08Speaker 9: symbolically spirit, and all THEE imperishable. That is also but
- 4:09:13Speaker 9: a simile. So have I heard THEE say once before,
- 4:09:18Speaker 9: answered the disciple. And then thou addest, but the poets
- 4:09:22Speaker 9: lie too much? Why didst Thou say that the poets
- 4:09:26Speaker 9: lie too much? Why said Zarathustra, thou askest why I
- 4:09:31Speaker 9: do not belong to those who may be asked after
- 4:09:35Speaker 9: their why is my experience? But of yesterday? It is
- 4:09:39Speaker 9: long ago that I experienced the reasons for mine opinions.
- 4:09:43Speaker 9: Should I not have to be a cask of memory?
- 4:09:47Speaker 9: If I also wanted to have my reasons with me?
- 4:09:50Speaker 9: It is already too much for me even to retain
- 4:09:53Speaker 9: mine opinions. And many a bird flieth away. And sometimes
- 4:09:58Speaker 9: also do I find a fugitive cree c in my dovecote,
- 4:10:01Speaker 9: which is alien to me, and trembleth when I lay
- 4:10:04Speaker 9: my hand upon it. But what did Zarathustra once say
- 4:10:08Speaker 9: unto thee that the poets lie too much? But Zarathustra
- 4:10:13Speaker 9: is also a poet. Believest thou that he there spake
- 4:10:18Speaker 9: the truth? Why dost thou believe it? The disciple answered,
- 4:10:23Speaker 9: I believe in Zarathustra. But Zarathustra shook his head and smiled.
- 4:10:29Speaker 9: Belief doth not sanctify me, said he least of all
- 4:10:33Speaker 9: the belief in myself. But granting that someone did say
- 4:10:38Speaker 9: in all seriousness that the poets lie too much, he
- 4:10:42Speaker 9: was right. We do lie too much. We also know
- 4:10:47Speaker 9: too little, and are bad learners, so we are obliged
- 4:10:51Speaker 9: to lie. And which of us poets hath not adulterated
- 4:10:56Speaker 9: his wine? Many a poisonous hotchpotchat evolved in our cellars.
- 4:11:02Speaker 9: Many an indescribable thing hath there been done. And because
- 4:11:06Speaker 9: we know little, therefore are we pleased from the heart
- 4:11:10Speaker 9: with the poor in spirit, especially when they are young women.
- 4:11:14Speaker 9: And even of those things are we desirous which old
- 4:11:18Speaker 9: women tell one another in the evening. This do we
- 4:11:21Speaker 9: call the eternally feminine in us? And as if there
- 4:11:25Speaker 9: were a special secret access to knowledge, with choketh up
- 4:11:29Speaker 9: for those who learn anything, so do we believe in
- 4:11:33Speaker 9: the people and their wisdom. This, however, do all poets
- 4:11:38Speaker 9: believe that whoever priketh up his ears, when lying in
- 4:11:42Speaker 9: the grass or un lonely slopes, learneth something of the
- 4:11:46Speaker 9: things that are betwixt heaven and earth. And if they
- 4:11:50Speaker 9: are come unto them tender emotions, then do the poets
- 4:11:53Speaker 9: always think that Nature herself is in love with them,
- 4:11:57Speaker 9: and that she stealeth to their to whisper her secrets
- 4:12:00Speaker 9: into it and amorous flatteries of this do they plume
- 4:12:04Speaker 9: and pride themselves before all mortals. Ah there are so
- 4:12:08Speaker 9: many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the
- 4:12:10Speaker 9: poets have dreamed, and especially above the heavens. For all
- 4:12:15Speaker 9: gods or poets, symbolizations, poets sophistications. Verily, ever, are we
- 4:12:22Speaker 9: drawn aloft, that is, to the realm of the clouds.
- 4:12:26Speaker 9: On these do we set our gaudy puppets, and then
- 4:12:28Speaker 9: call them gods and supermen? Are not they light enough
- 4:12:33Speaker 9: for those chairs? Are all these gods and supermen? Ah?
- 4:12:37Speaker 9: How I am weary of all the inadequate that is
- 4:12:40Speaker 9: insisted on as actual? Ah, how I am weary of
- 4:12:44Speaker 9: the poets. When Zarathustra so spake, his disciple resented it,
- 4:12:51Speaker 9: but was silent, And Zarathustra also was silent, and his
- 4:12:56Speaker 9: eye directed itself inwardly, as if it gazed into the
- 4:12:59Speaker 9: far distance. At last he sighed and drew breath. I
- 4:13:05Speaker 9: am of today, and heretofore said he thereupon, But something
- 4:13:11Speaker 9: is in me, that is of the morrow, and the
- 4:13:13Speaker 9: day following, and the hereafter. I became weary of the poets,
- 4:13:19Speaker 9: of the old and of the new superficial? Are they
- 4:13:22Speaker 9: all unto me in shallow seas they did not think
- 4:13:26Speaker 9: sufficiently into the depth therefore their feeling did not reach
- 4:13:30Speaker 9: to the bottom. Some sensation of voluptuousness and some sensation
- 4:13:35Speaker 9: of tedium. These have as yet been their best contemplation.
- 4:13:41Speaker 9: Ghost breathing and ghost whisking seemeth to me. All the
- 4:13:45Speaker 9: jingle jangling of their harps. What have they known hitherto
- 4:13:49Speaker 9: of the fervor of tones? They are also not pure
- 4:13:54Speaker 9: enough for me. They all muddle their waters, that it
- 4:13:57Speaker 9: may seem deep and fain. Would they thereby prove themselves reconcilers,
- 4:14:03Speaker 9: but mediaries and mixers? Are they unto me? And half
- 4:14:05Speaker 9: in half and impure? I cast indeed my net into
- 4:14:10Speaker 9: their sea, and meant to catch good fish. But always
- 4:14:14Speaker 9: did I draw up the head of some ancient god.
- 4:14:17Speaker 9: Thus did the sea give a stone to the hungry one?
- 4:14:21Speaker 9: And they themselves may well originate from the sea. Certainly
- 4:14:26Speaker 9: one findeth pearls in them. Thereby they are the more
- 4:14:31Speaker 9: like hard mollusks. And instead of a soul I have
- 4:14:35Speaker 9: often found in them salt slime. They have learned from
- 4:14:40Speaker 9: the sea. Also, its vanity is not the sea. The
- 4:14:43Speaker 9: peacock of peacocks. Even before the ugliest of all buffaloes,
- 4:14:48Speaker 9: doth its bread out its tail. Never doth it tire
- 4:14:51Speaker 9: of its lace fan of silver and silk. Disdainfully doth
- 4:14:57Speaker 9: the buffalo glance thereat to the sand with its soul
- 4:15:02Speaker 9: nigher still to the thicket nighest. However, to the swamp,
- 4:15:08Speaker 9: what is beauty and sea in peacock splendor? To it
- 4:15:12Speaker 9: this parable I speak unto the poets. Verily, their spirit
- 4:15:17Speaker 9: itself is the peacock of peacock's and a sea of vanity.
- 4:15:22Speaker 9: Spectators seeketh the spirit of the poet, should they even
- 4:15:26Speaker 9: be buffaloes. But of this spirit became I weary, and
- 4:15:31Speaker 9: I see the time coming when it will become weary
- 4:15:34Speaker 9: of itself. Yea changed have I seen the poets and
- 4:15:39Speaker 9: their glance turn towards themselves? Penitents of the spirit have
- 4:15:44Speaker 9: I seen appearing? They grew out of the poets. Thus
- 4:15:48Speaker 9: spake Zarathustra. End of Chapter thirty nine, Part two, Chapter
- 4:16:01Speaker 9: forty Great Events. There is an isle in the sea,
- 4:16:09Speaker 9: not far from the happy aisles of Zarathustra, on which
- 4:16:13Speaker 9: a volcano ever smoketh. Of which isle the people, and
- 4:16:16Speaker 9: especially the old women amongst them, say that it is
- 4:16:20Speaker 9: placed as a rock before the gate of the nether world,
- 4:16:23Speaker 9: but that through the volcano itself, the narrow way leadeth downwards,
- 4:16:27Speaker 9: which conducteth to this gate. Now, about the time that
- 4:16:32Speaker 9: Zarathustra so adjourned on the Happy Aisles, it happened that
- 4:16:36Speaker 9: a ship anchored at the isle on which standeth the
- 4:16:38Speaker 9: smoking Mountain, and the crew went ashore to shoot rabbits
- 4:16:44Speaker 9: about the noontide hour. However, when the captain and his
- 4:16:47Speaker 9: men were together again, they saw suddenly a man coming
- 4:16:50Speaker 9: towards them through the air, and a voice said distinctly,
- 4:16:54Speaker 9: it is time. It is the highest time. But when
- 4:16:58Speaker 9: the figure was nearest to them, it flew past quickly. However,
- 4:17:02Speaker 9: like a shadow in the direction of the volcano. Then
- 4:17:05Speaker 9: did they recognize, with the greatest surprise that it was Zarathustra.
- 4:17:10Speaker 9: For they had all seen him before, except the captain himself,
- 4:17:13Speaker 9: and they loved him as the people loved, in such
- 4:17:16Speaker 9: wise that love and awe were combined in equal degree. Behold,
- 4:17:22Speaker 9: said the helmsman, there goeth Zarathustra to Hell. About the
- 4:17:27Speaker 9: same time that these sailors landed on the fire isisle,
- 4:17:30Speaker 9: there was a rumor that Zarathustra had appeared, And when
- 4:17:33Speaker 9: his friends were asked about it, they said that he
- 4:17:36Speaker 9: had gone on board a ship by night, without saying
- 4:17:39Speaker 9: whither he was going. Thus there arose some uneasiness. After
- 4:17:44Speaker 9: three days, however, there came the story of the ship's
- 4:17:47Speaker 9: crew in addition to this uneasiness. And then did all
- 4:17:51Speaker 9: the people say that the devil had taken Zarathustra. His
- 4:17:55Speaker 9: disciples laughed sure enough at this talk, and one of
- 4:17:58Speaker 9: them said, even soon would I believe that Zarathustra hath
- 4:18:02Speaker 9: taken the devil. But at the bottom of their hearts
- 4:18:06Speaker 9: they were all full of anxiety and longing. So their
- 4:18:09Speaker 9: joy was great when on the fifth day Zarathustra appeared
- 4:18:12Speaker 9: amongst them. And this is the account of Zarathustra's interview
- 4:18:17Speaker 9: with the fire dog. The earth said he hath a skin,
- 4:18:22Speaker 9: and this skin hath diseases. One of these diseases, for example,
- 4:18:27Speaker 9: is called man, and another of these diseases is called
- 4:18:32Speaker 9: the fire dog. Concerning him, men have greatly deceived themselves,
- 4:18:37Speaker 9: and let themselves be deceived to fathom this mystery. Did
- 4:18:42Speaker 9: I go o'er the sea, and I have seen the
- 4:18:45Speaker 9: truth naked, verily, barefooted up to the neck. Now do
- 4:18:49Speaker 9: I know how it is? Concerning the fire dog, and
- 4:18:52Speaker 9: likewise concerning all the spouting and subversive devils of which
- 4:18:56Speaker 9: not only old women are afraid up with THEE fire dog.
- 4:19:01Speaker 9: Out of thy depth, cried I, and confess how deep
- 4:19:04Speaker 9: that depth is? Whence cometh that which thou snortestop thou
- 4:19:10Speaker 9: drinkest copiously at the sea, that doth thine embittered eloquence
- 4:19:14Speaker 9: betray in sooth for a dog of the depth, thou
- 4:19:18Speaker 9: takest thy nourishment too much from the surface. At the most,
- 4:19:22Speaker 9: I regard THEE as the ventriloquist of the earth. And ever,
- 4:19:27Speaker 9: when I have heard subversive and spouting devil speak, I
- 4:19:30Speaker 9: have found them like THEE embittered, mendacious, and shallow. Ye
- 4:19:35Speaker 9: understand how to roar and obscure with ashes. Ye are
- 4:19:39Speaker 9: the best braggarts, and have sufficiently learned the art of
- 4:19:42Speaker 9: making dregs boil. Where ye are, there must always be
- 4:19:47Speaker 9: dregs at hand, and much that is spongy, hollow and compressed.
- 4:19:51Speaker 9: It wontth thou freedom freedom. Ye all roar most eagerly,
- 4:19:56Speaker 9: But I have unlearned the belief in great events when
- 4:19:59Speaker 9: there is much roaring and smoke about them, and believe me,
- 4:20:03Speaker 9: friend hullabaloo. The greatest events are not our noisiest but
- 4:20:08Speaker 9: our stillest hours, not around the inventors of new noise,
- 4:20:13Speaker 9: but around the inventors of new values. Doth the world
- 4:20:16Speaker 9: revolve inaudibly? It revolveth and just own to it. Little
- 4:20:23Speaker 9: have never been taken place when thy noise and smoke
- 4:20:26Speaker 9: passed away. What if a city did become a mummy
- 4:20:29Speaker 9: and a statue lay in the mud. And this do
- 4:20:33Speaker 9: I say also to the oer throwers of statues. It
- 4:20:37Speaker 9: is certainly the greatest folly to throw salt into the
- 4:20:40Speaker 9: sea and statues into the mud. In the mud of
- 4:20:44Speaker 9: your contempt lay the statue. But it is just its
- 4:20:48Speaker 9: law that out of contempt its life and living beauty
- 4:20:51Speaker 9: grow again with diviner features. Doth it now arise, seducing
- 4:20:57Speaker 9: by its suffering? And verily it will yet thank you
- 4:21:00Speaker 9: for overthrowing it, Ye subverters this council, however, do I
- 4:21:05Speaker 9: counsel the kings and churches, and to all that is
- 4:21:08Speaker 9: weak with age your virtue. Let yourselves be overthrown, that
- 4:21:12Speaker 9: ye may again come to life, and that virtue may
- 4:21:15Speaker 9: come to you. Thus spake I before the fire dog
- 4:21:20Speaker 9: then did he interrupt me sullenly and ask Church, what
- 4:21:24Speaker 9: is that? Church answered I, that is a kind of state,
- 4:21:30Speaker 9: and indeed the most mandacious. But remain quiet, thou, dissembling dog.
- 4:21:35Speaker 9: Thou surely knowest thine own species best like thyself. The
- 4:21:40Speaker 9: state is a dissembling dog, like thee. Doth it like
- 4:21:44Speaker 9: to speak with smoke and roaring to make believe, like thee,
- 4:21:48Speaker 9: that it speaketh out of the heart of things? For
- 4:21:51Speaker 9: it seeketh by all means to be the most important
- 4:21:54Speaker 9: creature on earth, the state, and people thinketh so. When
- 4:22:00Speaker 9: I had said this, the fire dog acted as if
- 4:22:03Speaker 9: mad with envy. What cried he the most important creature
- 4:22:08Speaker 9: on earth and people thinketh so? And so much vapor
- 4:22:12Speaker 9: and terrible voices came out of his throat that I
- 4:22:14Speaker 9: thought he would choke with vexation and envy. At last
- 4:22:18Speaker 9: he became calmer, and his panting subsided. As soon however,
- 4:22:23Speaker 9: as he was quiet, I said, laughingly, thou art angry
- 4:22:26Speaker 9: fire dog. So I am in the right about thee,
- 4:22:30Speaker 9: and that I may also maintain the right hear the
- 4:22:32Speaker 9: story of another fire dog. He speaketh actually out of
- 4:22:36Speaker 9: the heart of the earth. Gold doth his breath exhale
- 4:22:40Speaker 9: in golden rain. So doth his heart desire? What are
- 4:22:45Speaker 9: ashes and smoke and hot dregs? To him? Laughter flitteth
- 4:22:49Speaker 9: from him like a variegated cloud. Adverses he to thy
- 4:22:53Speaker 9: gargling and spewing in grips and the bowels. The gold, however,
- 4:22:58Speaker 9: and the laughter, these doth he take out of the
- 4:23:00Speaker 9: heart of the earth, For that thou mayst know it.
- 4:23:04Speaker 9: The heart of the earth is of gold. When the
- 4:23:08Speaker 9: fire dog heard this, he could no longer endure to
- 4:23:11Speaker 9: listen to me. Abashed did he draw in his tail,
- 4:23:15Speaker 9: said bow wow, in a cowed voice, and crept down
- 4:23:18Speaker 9: into his cave. Thus told Zarathustra. His disciples, however, hardly
- 4:23:24Speaker 9: listened to him, so great was their eagerness to tell
- 4:23:27Speaker 9: him about the sailors, the rabbits, and the flying man.
- 4:23:31Speaker 9: What am I to think of it, said Zarathustra. Am
- 4:23:34Speaker 9: I indeed a ghost, But it may have been my shadow.
- 4:23:39Speaker 9: Ye have surely heard something of the wanderer in his shadow.
- 4:23:43Speaker 9: One thing, however, is certain. I must keep a tighter
- 4:23:46Speaker 9: hold of it, otherwise it will spoil my reputation. And
- 4:23:51Speaker 9: once more Zarathustra shook his head, and wondered what am
- 4:23:55Speaker 9: I to think of it? Said he once more? Why
- 4:23:59Speaker 9: did the ghosts cry? It is time? It is the
- 4:24:02Speaker 9: highest time? For what is it? Then? The highest time?
- 4:24:09Speaker 9: Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Chapter forty Part two, Chapter
- 4:24:21Speaker 9: forty one. The south Sayer and I saw a great
- 4:24:28Speaker 9: sadness come over mankind. The best turned weary of their works.
- 4:24:33Speaker 9: A doctrine appeared, A faith ran beside it. All is empty,
- 4:24:38Speaker 9: all is alike, all hath been. And from all hills
- 4:24:43Speaker 9: they're re echoed, all is empty, all is alike, all
- 4:24:48Speaker 9: hath been. To be sure, we have harvested. But why
- 4:24:54Speaker 9: have all our fruits become rotten and brown? What was it?
- 4:24:58Speaker 9: Fell last night from the evil moon in vain? Was
- 4:25:02Speaker 9: all our labor poison? Hath our wine become the evil eye?
- 4:25:07Speaker 9: Hath singed?
- 4:25:08Speaker 7: Yellow?
- 4:25:08Speaker 9: Our fields and hearts arid? Have we all become and
- 4:25:14Speaker 9: fire falling upon us? Then do we turn dust like ashes? Yea,
- 4:25:20Speaker 9: the fire itself have we made a weary? All our
- 4:25:26Speaker 9: fountains have dried up. Even the sea hath receded. All
- 4:25:31Speaker 9: the ground trieth to gape, But the depth will not swallow.
- 4:25:39Speaker 9: Alas where is there still a sea in which one
- 4:25:43Speaker 9: could be drowned. So soundeth our plant across shallow swamps. Verily,
- 4:25:52Speaker 9: even for dying, have we become too weary? Now do
- 4:25:56Speaker 9: we keep awake and live on in sepulcher. Thus did
- 4:26:02Speaker 9: Zarathustra hear a soothsayer speak, and the foreboding touched his
- 4:26:07Speaker 9: heart and transformed him. Sorrowfully did he go about and wearily,
- 4:26:13Speaker 9: and he became like unto those of whom the soothsayer
- 4:26:17Speaker 9: had spoken. Verily, said he unto his disciples. A little while,
- 4:26:23Speaker 9: and there cometh of the long twilight. Alas, how shall
- 4:26:28Speaker 9: I preserve my light through it? That it may not
- 4:26:33Speaker 9: smother in this sorrowfulness? To a remoter world? Shall it
- 4:26:38Speaker 9: be a light, and also to remotest nights. Thus did
- 4:26:43Speaker 9: Zarathustra go about, grieved in his heart, and for three
- 4:26:47Speaker 9: days he did not take any meat or drink. He
- 4:26:50Speaker 9: had no rest, and lost his speech. At last it
- 4:26:54Speaker 9: came to pass that he fell into a deep sleep.
- 4:26:59Speaker 9: His disciples, how over, sat around him in long night watches,
- 4:27:03Speaker 9: and waited anxiously to see if he would awake and
- 4:27:05Speaker 9: speak again and recover from his affliction. And this is
- 4:27:11Speaker 9: the discourse that Zarathustra spake when he awoke. His voice, however,
- 4:27:16Speaker 9: came unto his disciples as from afar. Here I pray
- 4:27:22Speaker 9: you the dream that I dreamed my friends, and helped
- 4:27:27Speaker 9: me to divine its meaning A riddle? Is it still
- 4:27:32Speaker 9: unto me? This dream? The meaning is hidden in it
- 4:27:35Speaker 9: and encaged, and doth not yet fly above it on
- 4:27:39Speaker 9: free pinions? All life had I renounced? So I dreamed
- 4:27:47Speaker 9: night watchmen, graveguardian? Had I become aloft in the lone
- 4:27:51Speaker 9: mountain fortress of death? There did I guard his coffins
- 4:27:57Speaker 9: full stood the musty vaults of those trophy of victory
- 4:28:02Speaker 9: out of glass coffins, did vanquished life gaze upon me?
- 4:28:07Speaker 9: The odor of dust covered eternities. Did I breathe sultry
- 4:28:11Speaker 9: and dust covered lay my soul? And who could have
- 4:28:14Speaker 9: aired his soul? There? Brightness of midnight was ever around me.
- 4:28:20Speaker 9: Lonesomeness cowered beside her, and as the third death rattle
- 4:28:25Speaker 9: stillness the worst of my female friends. Keys did I carry,
- 4:28:32Speaker 9: the rustiest of all keys, and I knew how to
- 4:28:35Speaker 9: open with them? The most creaking of all gates, like
- 4:28:41Speaker 9: a bitterly angry croaking, ran the sound through the long corridors.
- 4:28:46Speaker 9: When the leaves of the gate opened ungraciously did this
- 4:28:50Speaker 9: bird cry? Unwillingly? Was it awakened? But more frightful even,
- 4:28:56Speaker 9: and more heart strangling was it when it again became
- 4:29:00Speaker 9: silent and still all around, And I alone sat in
- 4:29:04Speaker 9: that malignant silence. Thus did time pass with me and
- 4:29:10Speaker 9: slip by? If time there still was? What do I
- 4:29:15Speaker 9: know thereof? But at last there happened that which awoke me.
- 4:29:23Speaker 9: Thrice did there peal peals at the gate like thunders?
- 4:29:27Speaker 9: Thrice did the vaults resound and howl again? Then did
- 4:29:32Speaker 9: I go to the gate? Alpa cried I who carrieth
- 4:29:37Speaker 9: his ashes unto the mountain? Alpa, Alpa, who carrieth his
- 4:29:43Speaker 9: ashes unto the mountain? And I pressed the key and
- 4:29:49Speaker 9: pulled at the gate, and exerted myself, But not a
- 4:29:52Speaker 9: finger's breadth was it yet open. Then did a roaring
- 4:29:57Speaker 9: wind tear the folds apart, whistling, whizzing and piercing. It
- 4:30:02Speaker 9: threw unto me a black coffin, And the roaring and
- 4:30:07Speaker 9: whistling and whizzing, the coffin burst up and spouted out
- 4:30:11Speaker 9: a thousand peals of laughter, and a thousand caricatures of children, angels, owls, fools,
- 4:30:19Speaker 9: and a child sized butterflies laughed and mocked and roared
- 4:30:24Speaker 9: at me fearfully. Was I terrified? Thereby it prostrated me,
- 4:30:31Speaker 9: and I cried with horror as never I cried before,
- 4:30:35Speaker 9: But mine own crying awoke me, and I came to myself.
- 4:30:41Speaker 9: Thus did Zarathustra relate his dream, and then was silent,
- 4:30:45Speaker 9: for as yet he knew not the interpretation thereof. But
- 4:30:51Speaker 9: the disciple, whom he loved most arose quickly seized Zarathustra's
- 4:30:55Speaker 9: hand and said, thy life itself interpreteth unto us this
- 4:31:01Speaker 9: dream of Zarathustra. Art thou not thyself the wind with
- 4:31:05Speaker 9: shrill whistling, which bursteth open the gates of the fortress
- 4:31:10Speaker 9: of death. Art thou not thyself the coffin full of
- 4:31:14Speaker 9: many hued malices and angel caricatures of life. Verily like
- 4:31:20Speaker 9: a thousand peals, a children's laughter cometh Zarathustra into all sepulchers,
- 4:31:26Speaker 9: laughing at those night watchmen and grave guardians, and whoever
- 4:31:31Speaker 9: else rattleth with sinister keys with thy laughter, Wilt thou
- 4:31:36Speaker 9: frighten and prostrate them, fainting and recovering, will demonstrate thy
- 4:31:41Speaker 9: power over them. And when the long twilight cometh and
- 4:31:45Speaker 9: the mortal weariness, even then, wilt thou not disappear from
- 4:31:49Speaker 9: our firmament, Thou advocate of life new stars, Hast thou
- 4:31:56Speaker 9: made us see a new nocturnal glories. Verily, laughter itself,
- 4:32:02Speaker 9: Hast thou spread out over us like a many hued canopy.
- 4:32:06Speaker 9: Now will children's laughter ever from coffin's flow? Now will
- 4:32:11Speaker 9: a stronger wind ever come victoriously unto all mortal weariness?
- 4:32:16Speaker 9: Of this? Thou art thyself, the pledge, and the prophet.
- 4:32:20Speaker 9: Verily they themselves didst thou dream thine enemies, That was
- 4:32:26Speaker 9: thy sorest dream. But as thou wokest from them and
- 4:32:31Speaker 9: camest to thyself, so shall they awaken from themselves and
- 4:32:35Speaker 9: come unto thee. Thus spake the Disciple and all the others.
- 4:32:40Speaker 9: Then thronged around Zarathustra, grasped him by the hands, and
- 4:32:45Speaker 9: tried to persuade him to leave his bed in his
- 4:32:48Speaker 9: sadness and return unto them. Zarathustra, however, sat upright on
- 4:32:54Speaker 9: his couch with an absent look, like one returning from
- 4:32:59Speaker 9: long foreign sojourn. Did he look on his disciples and
- 4:33:02Speaker 9: examine their features. But still he knew them not. When, however,
- 4:33:08Speaker 9: they raised him and set him upon his feet, behold,
- 4:33:12Speaker 9: all on a sudden his eye changed. He understood everything
- 4:33:16Speaker 9: that had happened, stroked his beard, and said, with a
- 4:33:19Speaker 9: strong voice, Well, this hath just its time. But see
- 4:33:25Speaker 9: to it, my disciples, that we have a good repast
- 4:33:28Speaker 9: and without delay. Thus do I mean to make amends
- 4:33:32Speaker 9: for bad dreams. The soothsayer, however, shall eat and drink
- 4:33:36Speaker 9: at my side, And verily I will yet show him
- 4:33:39Speaker 9: a sea in which he can drown himself. Thus spake Zarathustra.
- 4:33:46Speaker 9: Then did he gaze long into the face of the
- 4:33:48Speaker 9: disciple who had been the dream interpreter, and shook his head.
- 4:33:55Speaker 9: End of Chapter forty one, Part two, Chapter forty two Redemption.
- 4:34:10Speaker 9: When Zarathustra went one day over the great bridge, then
- 4:34:15Speaker 9: did the cripples and beggars surround him. The hunchback spake
- 4:34:18Speaker 9: thus unto him. Behold, Zarathustra. Even the people learn from
- 4:34:24Speaker 9: THEE and acquire faith in thy teaching. But for them
- 4:34:28Speaker 9: to believe fully in THEE, one thing is still needful.
- 4:34:32Speaker 9: Thou must first of all convince us cripples. Here hast
- 4:34:39Speaker 9: thou now a fine selection, and verily an opportunity with
- 4:34:43Speaker 9: more than one. Forelock the blind, canst thou heal and
- 4:34:48Speaker 9: make the lame run? And from him who hath too
- 4:34:53Speaker 9: much behind? Couldst thou well also take away a little
- 4:34:58Speaker 9: that I think would be the right method to make
- 4:35:01Speaker 9: the cripples believe in Zarathustra. Zarathustra, however, answered thus unto
- 4:35:08Speaker 9: him who so spake, When one taketh his hump from
- 4:35:12Speaker 9: the hunchback, then doth one take from him his spirit?
- 4:35:18Speaker 9: So do the people teach. And when one giveth the
- 4:35:22Speaker 9: blind man eyes, then doth he see too many bad
- 4:35:26Speaker 9: things on the earth, so that he curseth him who
- 4:35:30Speaker 9: healed him. He, however, who maketh the lame man run,
- 4:35:35Speaker 9: inflicteth upon him the greatest injury, for hardly can he
- 4:35:39Speaker 9: run when his vices run away with him. So do
- 4:35:44Speaker 9: the people teach concerning cripples, And why should not Zarathustra
- 4:35:48Speaker 9: also learn from the people When the people learn from Zarathustra.
- 4:35:55Speaker 9: It is, however, the smallest thing unto me, since I
- 4:35:58Speaker 9: have been amongst men, to see one person lacking an eye,
- 4:36:03Speaker 9: another an ear, and a thirdle leg and that others
- 4:36:06Speaker 9: have lost the tongue or the nose or the head.
- 4:36:11Speaker 9: I see, and have seen worse things and diverse things,
- 4:36:15Speaker 9: so hideous that I should neither like to speak of
- 4:36:19Speaker 9: all matters, nor even keep silent about some of them, namely,
- 4:36:24Speaker 9: men who lack everything except that they have too much
- 4:36:28Speaker 9: of one thing. Men who are nothing more than a
- 4:36:32Speaker 9: big eye, or a big mouth, or a big belly,
- 4:36:35Speaker 9: or something else, big reversed cripples, I call such men.
- 4:36:41Speaker 9: And when I came out of my solitude, and for
- 4:36:44Speaker 9: the first time passed over this bridge, then I could
- 4:36:47Speaker 9: not trust mine eyes, but looked again and again, and said,
- 4:36:50Speaker 9: at last, that is an ear, an ear as big
- 4:36:53Speaker 9: as a man. I look still more attentively, and actually
- 4:36:58Speaker 9: there did move under the ear, or something that was
- 4:37:01Speaker 9: pitiably small and poor and slim. And in truth, this
- 4:37:06Speaker 9: immense ear was perched on a small, thin stalk. The stalk, however,
- 4:37:11Speaker 9: was a man. A person putting a glass to his
- 4:37:16Speaker 9: eyes could even recognize further a small, envious countenance, and
- 4:37:21Speaker 9: also that a bloated soult dangled at the stalk. The
- 4:37:25Speaker 9: people told me, however, that the big ear was not
- 4:37:29Speaker 9: only a man, but a great man, a genius. But
- 4:37:33Speaker 9: I never believed in the people when they spake of
- 4:37:35Speaker 9: great men. And I hold to my belief that it
- 4:37:39Speaker 9: was a reversed cripple who had too little of everything
- 4:37:43Speaker 9: and too much of one thing. When Zarathustra had spoken
- 4:37:48Speaker 9: thus unto the hunchback, and unto those of whom the
- 4:37:52Speaker 9: hunchback was the mouthpiece and advocate, then did he turn
- 4:37:56Speaker 9: to his disciples in profound dejection, and said, my friends,
- 4:38:01Speaker 9: I walkest amongst men, as amongst the fragments and limbs
- 4:38:04Speaker 9: of human beings. This is the terrible thing to mine.
- 4:38:08Speaker 9: I that I find man broken up and scattered about
- 4:38:13Speaker 9: as on a battle and butcher ground. And when mine
- 4:38:16Speaker 9: eye fleeth from the present to the bygone, it findeth
- 4:38:20Speaker 9: ever the same fragments and limbs and fearful chances, but
- 4:38:25Speaker 9: no men the present and the bygone upon earth. Ah,
- 4:38:30Speaker 9: my friends, that is my most unbearable trouble. And I
- 4:38:35Speaker 9: should not know how to live if I were not
- 4:38:38Speaker 9: a seer of what is to come, a seer, a purposer,
- 4:38:43Speaker 9: a creator, a future itself and a bridge to the future.
- 4:38:47Speaker 9: And alas also, as it were, a cripple on this
- 4:38:51Speaker 9: bridge all that is Zarathustra. And ye also asked yourselves
- 4:38:57Speaker 9: often who is Zarathustra to us? What shall he be called?
- 4:39:01Speaker 9: By us? And like me, did ye give yourselves questions
- 4:39:05Speaker 9: for answers. Is he a promiser or a fulfiller, A
- 4:39:10Speaker 9: conqueror or an inheritor, a harvest or a plowshare, A
- 4:39:16Speaker 9: physician or a healed one? Is he a poet or
- 4:39:19Speaker 9: a genuine one, an emancipator or a subjugator, a good
- 4:39:24Speaker 9: one or an evil one? I walk amongst men as
- 4:39:30Speaker 9: the fragments of the future, that future which I contemplate.
- 4:39:36Speaker 9: And it is all my poetisation, an aspiration to compose
- 4:39:40Speaker 9: and collect into unity. What is fragment and riddle and
- 4:39:44Speaker 9: fearful chance? And how could I endure to be a
- 4:39:48Speaker 9: man if man were not also the composer and riddle
- 4:39:52Speaker 9: reader and redeemer of chance, to redeem what is past,
- 4:39:58Speaker 9: and to transform every it was into Thus would I
- 4:40:03Speaker 9: have it that only do I call redemption will? So
- 4:40:11Speaker 9: is the emancipator and joy bringer called Thus have I
- 4:40:15Speaker 9: taught you, my friends? But now learn this? Likewise, the
- 4:40:21Speaker 9: will itself is still a prisoner, willing emancipateith. But what
- 4:40:29Speaker 9: is that called which still putteth the emancipator in chains?
- 4:40:36Speaker 9: It was Thus is the will's teeth gnashing and lonesomest
- 4:40:41Speaker 9: tribulation called impotent towards what hath been done. It is
- 4:40:47Speaker 9: a malicious spectator of all that is passed. Not backward
- 4:40:52Speaker 9: can the will will that it cannot break time and
- 4:40:56Speaker 9: time's desire, that is the will's lonesomest tribulation. Willing emancipateth
- 4:41:04Speaker 9: what doth willing itself devise in order to get free
- 4:41:07Speaker 9: from its tribulation and mock at its prison Ah, a
- 4:41:12Speaker 9: fool becometh every prisoner foolishly delivereth itself. Also the imprisoned
- 4:41:19Speaker 9: will the time doth not run backward, that is its animosity.
- 4:41:27Speaker 9: That which was so is the stone which it cannot
- 4:41:31Speaker 9: roll called. And thus doth it roll stones out of
- 4:41:37Speaker 9: animosity and ill humor, and taketh revenge on whatever doth
- 4:41:41Speaker 9: not like it feel rage and ill humor. Thus did
- 4:41:45Speaker 9: the will the emancipator become a torturer, and on all
- 4:41:51Speaker 9: that is capable of suffering, it taketh revenge because it
- 4:41:55Speaker 9: cannot go backward. This yeah, this alone revenge itself, the
- 4:42:02Speaker 9: wills antipathy to time and it's It was verily a
- 4:42:09Speaker 9: great folly, dwelleth in our will, and it became a
- 4:42:13Speaker 9: curse unto all humanity, that this folly acquired spirit, the
- 4:42:18Speaker 9: spirit of revenge, my friends, that hath hitherto been man's
- 4:42:23Speaker 9: best contemplation. And where there was suffering, it was claimed
- 4:42:28Speaker 9: there was always penalty penalty. So calleth itself revenge with
- 4:42:35Speaker 9: a lying word. It feigneth a good conscience. And because
- 4:42:40Speaker 9: in the willer himself there is suffering, because he cannot
- 4:42:43Speaker 9: will backwards. Thus was willing itself and all life claimed
- 4:42:48Speaker 9: to be penalty. And then did cloud after cloud roll
- 4:42:53Speaker 9: over the spirit, until at last madness preached, everything perisheth.
- 4:42:59Speaker 9: Therefore every thing deserveth to perish, And this itself is justice,
- 4:43:06Speaker 9: the law of time, that he must devour his children.
- 4:43:10Speaker 9: Thus did madness preach, morally, are things ordered according to
- 4:43:15Speaker 9: justice and penalty?
- 4:43:18Speaker 8: Oh?
- 4:43:18Speaker 9: Where is the deliverance from the flux of things and
- 4:43:21Speaker 9: from the existence of penalty? Thus did madness preach, can
- 4:43:27Speaker 9: there be deliverance when there is eternal justice? Alas unrollable
- 4:43:32Speaker 9: is the stone? It was eternal must also be all penalties.
- 4:43:39Speaker 9: Thus did madness preach no deed can be annihilated? How
- 4:43:44Speaker 9: could it be undone by the penalty? This, this is
- 4:43:48Speaker 9: what is eternal in the existence of penalty. That existence
- 4:43:52Speaker 9: also must be eternally recurring deed and guilt, unless the
- 4:43:57Speaker 9: will should at last deliver itself in willing become non willing.
- 4:44:02Speaker 9: But ye know, my brethren, this fabulous song of madness.
- 4:44:07Speaker 9: Away from those fabulous songs? Did I lead you? When
- 4:44:10Speaker 9: I taught you? The will is a creator? All it
- 4:44:16Speaker 9: was is a fragment, a riddle, a fearful chance, until
- 4:44:22Speaker 9: the creating will saith there too? But this would I
- 4:44:26Speaker 9: have it? Until the creating will saith there too? But
- 4:44:31Speaker 9: thus do I will it? Thus shall I will it?
- 4:44:35Speaker 9: But did it ever speak? Thus? And when doth this
- 4:44:39Speaker 9: take place? Hath the will been unharnessed from its own folly?
- 4:44:44Speaker 9: Hath the will become its own deliverer and joy bringer?
- 4:44:48Speaker 9: Hath it unlearned the spirit of revenge and all teeth gnashing?
- 4:44:52Speaker 9: And who hath taught it? Reconciliation with time? And something
- 4:44:56Speaker 9: higher than all reconciliation, something higher than all reconciliation must
- 4:45:02Speaker 9: the will will, which is the will to power, But
- 4:45:07Speaker 9: how doth that take place? Who hath taught it also
- 4:45:11Speaker 9: to will backwards? But at this point in his discourse,
- 4:45:16Speaker 9: it chanced that Zarathustra suddenly paused and looked like a
- 4:45:20Speaker 9: person in the greatest alarm. With terror in his eyes.
- 4:45:23Speaker 9: Did he gaze on his disciples, his glances pierced as
- 4:45:27Speaker 9: with arrows, their thoughts and arrear thoughts. But after a
- 4:45:31Speaker 9: brief space he again laughed and said, soothingly, it is
- 4:45:36Speaker 9: difficult to live amongst men because silence is so difficult,
- 4:45:40Speaker 9: especially for a babbler. Thus spake Zarathustra. The hunchback, however,
- 4:45:47Speaker 9: had listened to the conversation and had covered his face
- 4:45:51Speaker 9: during the time. But when he heard Zarathustra laugh, he
- 4:45:55Speaker 9: looked up with curiosity and said, slowly, but why does
- 4:45:59Speaker 9: zarathusist speak otherwise unto us? Then unto his disciples? Zarathustra answered,
- 4:46:07Speaker 9: what is there to be wondered at? With hunchbacks, one
- 4:46:10Speaker 9: may well speak in a hunchbacked way, Very good, said
- 4:46:14Speaker 9: the hunchback, And with pupils one may well tell tales
- 4:46:18Speaker 9: out of school. But why does Zarathustra speak otherwise unto
- 4:46:23Speaker 9: his pupils than unto himself. End of Chapter forty two,
- 4:46:38Speaker 9: Part two, Chapter forty three. Manly prudence, not the height.
- 4:46:49Speaker 9: It is the declivity that is terrible, the declivity where
- 4:46:54Speaker 9: the gaze shooteth downwards and the hand graspeth upwards there
- 4:46:59Speaker 9: that the heart become giddy through its double will. Ah, friends,
- 4:47:05Speaker 9: do ye divine also my heart's double will? This this
- 4:47:10Speaker 9: is my declivity and my danger, that my gaze shooteth
- 4:47:14Speaker 9: towards the summit, and my hand would fain clutch and
- 4:47:18Speaker 9: lean on the depth to man, clingeth my will with chains?
- 4:47:24Speaker 9: Do I bind myself to man? Because I am pulled
- 4:47:27Speaker 9: upwards to the superman. For thither doth my other will tend?
- 4:47:35Speaker 9: And therefore do I live blindly among men as if
- 4:47:39Speaker 9: I knew them, Not that my hand may not entirely
- 4:47:43Speaker 9: lose belief in firmness. I know not you men. This
- 4:47:48Speaker 9: gloom and consolation is often spread around me. I sit
- 4:47:54Speaker 9: at the gateway for every rogue, and ask who wisheth
- 4:47:57Speaker 9: to deceive me? This is my first manly prudence, that
- 4:48:02Speaker 9: I allow myself to be deceived, so as not to
- 4:48:05Speaker 9: be on my guard against deceivers. If I were on
- 4:48:11Speaker 9: my guard against man. How could man be an anchor
- 4:48:14Speaker 9: to my ball? Too easily would I be pulled upwards
- 4:48:18Speaker 9: in a way, this providence is over my fate, that
- 4:48:23Speaker 9: I have to be without foresight. And he who would
- 4:48:28Speaker 9: not languish amongst men must learn to drink out of
- 4:48:31Speaker 9: all glasses. And he who would keep clean amongst men
- 4:48:36Speaker 9: must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.
- 4:48:41Speaker 9: And thus spake I often to myself for consolation, courage,
- 4:48:46Speaker 9: cheer up old heart, and unhappiness hath failed to befall
- 4:48:51Speaker 9: thee enjoy that as thy happiness. This, however, is mine.
- 4:48:59Speaker 9: Other man prudence, I am more forbearing to the vein
- 4:49:04Speaker 9: than to the proud, is not wounded. Vanity the mother
- 4:49:08Speaker 9: of all tragedies. Where however pride is wounded, there there
- 4:49:14Speaker 9: groweth up something better than pride. But life may be
- 4:49:19Speaker 9: fair to behold its game must be well played. For
- 4:49:23Speaker 9: that purpose, however, it needeth good actors. Good actors have
- 4:49:29Speaker 9: I found all the vein once they play, and wish
- 4:49:33Speaker 9: people to be fond of beholding them.
- 4:49:36Speaker 6: All.
- 4:49:36Speaker 9: Their spirit is in this wish. They represent themselves. They
- 4:49:41Speaker 9: invent themselves in their neighborhood. I like to look upon
- 4:49:45Speaker 9: life it cureth of melancholy. Therefore am I forbearing to
- 4:49:51Speaker 9: the vein, because they are the physicians of my melancholy,
- 4:49:55Speaker 9: and keep me attached to man as to a drama.
- 4:50:00Speaker 9: If further, who conceiveth the full depth of the modesty
- 4:50:03Speaker 9: of the vein man, I am favorable to him and
- 4:50:07Speaker 9: sympathetic on account of his modesty. From you? Would he
- 4:50:12Speaker 9: learn his belief in himself. He feedeth upon your glances,
- 4:50:17Speaker 9: He eateth praise out of your hands your lies. Doth
- 4:50:21Speaker 9: even he believe when you lie favorably about him or
- 4:50:25Speaker 9: in its depths? Scieth his heart? What am I? And
- 4:50:32Speaker 9: if that be the true virtue which is unconscious of itself,
- 4:50:37Speaker 9: while the vein man is unconscious of his modesty. This is, however,
- 4:50:42Speaker 9: my third manly prudence. I am not put out of
- 4:50:46Speaker 9: conceit with the wicked by your timorousness. I am happy
- 4:50:52Speaker 9: to see the marvels the warm sun, hatcheth, tigers and
- 4:50:55Speaker 9: palms and rattlesnakes. Also among men there is a beautiful
- 4:51:00Speaker 9: brood of the warm sun, and much that is marvelous
- 4:51:05Speaker 9: in the wicked. In truth, as your wisest did not
- 4:51:10Speaker 9: seem to me, so very wise, so found I also
- 4:51:13Speaker 9: human wickedness below the fame of it, And oft did
- 4:51:17Speaker 9: I ask, with a shake of the head, why still rattle? Ye, rattlesnakes.
- 4:51:23Speaker 9: Verily there is still a future even for evil. And
- 4:51:27Speaker 9: the warmest south is still undiscovered by man. How many
- 4:51:32Speaker 9: things are now called the worst wickedness, which are only
- 4:51:35Speaker 9: twelve feet broad and three months long. Some day, however,
- 4:51:39Speaker 9: will greater dragons come into the world. For that the
- 4:51:44Speaker 9: superman may not lack his dragon, the super dragon that
- 4:51:48Speaker 9: is worthy of him. There must still much warm sun
- 4:51:52Speaker 9: glow on moist virgin forests. Out of your wild cats,
- 4:51:58Speaker 9: must tigers have evolved, and out of your poisoned toads crocodiles.
- 4:52:03Speaker 9: For the good hunters shall have a good hunt. And verily,
- 4:52:07Speaker 9: ye good and just in you there is much to
- 4:52:10Speaker 9: be laughed at, and especially your fear of what hath
- 4:52:13Speaker 9: hitherto been called the devil. So alien are ye and
- 4:52:18Speaker 9: your souls to what is great that to you the
- 4:52:21Speaker 9: superman would be frightful in his goodness, and ye wise
- 4:52:27Speaker 9: and knowing ones, ye would flee from the solar glow
- 4:52:30Speaker 9: of the wisdom in which the Superman joyfully bathe his
- 4:52:34Speaker 9: nakedness ye, highest men who have come within my ken.
- 4:52:40Speaker 9: This is my doubt of you, and my secret laughter.
- 4:52:43Speaker 9: I suspect you would call my superman a devil. Ah.
- 4:52:49Speaker 9: I became tired of those highest and best ones from
- 4:52:53Speaker 9: their height, that I long to be up out and
- 4:52:56Speaker 9: away to the superman. A horror came over me when
- 4:53:00Speaker 9: I saw those best ones naked. Then there grew for
- 4:53:04Speaker 9: me the pinions to soar away into distant futures, into
- 4:53:09Speaker 9: more distant futures, into more southern souths than ever artists
- 4:53:14Speaker 9: dreamed of Thither, where gods are ashamed of all clothes
- 4:53:21Speaker 9: but disguise. Do I want to see you, ye, neighbors
- 4:53:24Speaker 9: and fellow men, and well attired, and vain and estimable
- 4:53:28Speaker 9: as the good and just, and disguise, while I myself
- 4:53:33Speaker 9: sit amongst you, that I may mistake you and myself,
- 4:53:37Speaker 9: For that is my last manly prudence. Thus spake Zarathustra.
- 4:53:46Speaker 9: End of Chapter forty three, Part two, Chapter forty four,
- 4:53:58Speaker 9: The stillest hour? What hath happened unto me? My friends?
- 4:54:04Speaker 9: Ye see me troubled, driven forth, unwillingly obedient, ready to
- 4:54:10Speaker 9: go alas to go away from you? Yea once more
- 4:54:15Speaker 9: must Zarathustra retire to his solitude, but unjoyously this time
- 4:54:20Speaker 9: doth the bear go back to his cave? What hath happened?
- 4:54:26Speaker 9: Unto me? Who ordereth this? Ah? Mine angry mistress? Wisheth it?
- 4:54:33Speaker 9: So she spake unto me? Have I ever named her name?
- 4:54:38Speaker 9: To you? Yesterday towards evening there spake unto me my
- 4:54:43Speaker 9: stillest hour, that is the name of my terrible mistress?
- 4:54:50Speaker 9: And thus did it happen? For everything? Must I tell
- 4:54:54Speaker 9: you that your heart may not harden against the suddenly
- 4:54:58Speaker 9: departing one. Do ye know the terror of him who
- 4:55:02Speaker 9: followeth asleep to the very toes? He is terrified because
- 4:55:08Speaker 9: the ground giveth way under him, and the dream beginneth
- 4:55:13Speaker 9: This do I speak unto you in parable? Yesterday? At
- 4:55:17Speaker 9: the stillest hour? Did the ground give way under me?
- 4:55:20Speaker 9: The dream began? The hour hand moved on the time
- 4:55:25Speaker 9: piece of my life drew breath. Never did I hear
- 4:55:29Speaker 9: such stillness around me, so that my heart was terrified.
- 4:55:35Speaker 9: Then was there spoken unto me without voice? Thou knowest it, Zarathustra.
- 4:55:42Speaker 9: And I cried in terror at this whispering, and the
- 4:55:45Speaker 9: blood left my face. But I was silent. Then was
- 4:55:50Speaker 9: there once more spoken unto me without voice, Thou.
- 4:55:54Speaker 8: Knowest it, Zarathustra, but thou dost not speak it?
- 4:56:00Speaker 9: And at last I answered, like one defiant YEA, I know,
- 4:56:04Speaker 9: but I will not speak it. Then was there again
- 4:56:09Speaker 9: spoken unto me, without voice.
- 4:56:12Speaker 8: Thou wilt not, Zarathustra, is this true? Conceal thyself? Not
- 4:56:19Speaker 8: behind thy defiance?
- 4:56:23Speaker 9: And I wept and trembled like a child, and said, ah,
- 4:56:27Speaker 9: I would, indeed, But how can I do it? Exempt
- 4:56:31Speaker 9: me only from this? It is beyond my power. Then
- 4:56:36Speaker 9: was there again spoken unto me without voice, What matter
- 4:56:41Speaker 9: about thyself? Zarathustra, speak thy word and succumb? And I answered, ah,
- 4:56:50Speaker 9: is it my word? Who am I? I await the
- 4:56:55Speaker 9: worthier one? I am not worthy even to succumb by it.
- 4:57:01Speaker 9: Then was there again spoken unto me without voice, what
- 4:57:05Speaker 9: matter about thyself?
- 4:57:09Speaker 8: Thou art not yet umble enough for me?
- 4:57:13Speaker 9: Humility hath the hardest skin? And I answered, what hath not?
- 4:57:21Speaker 9: The skin of my humility endured at the foot of
- 4:57:25Speaker 9: my height? Do I dwell how high are my summits?
- 4:57:29Speaker 9: No one hath yet told me, but well do I
- 4:57:32Speaker 9: know my valleys? Then was there again spoken unto me
- 4:57:38Speaker 9: without voice, Oh Zarathustra, he who hath to remove mountains,
- 4:57:46Speaker 9: removeth also valleys and plains. And I answered, as yet
- 4:57:54Speaker 9: hath my word not removed mountains? And what I have
- 4:57:57Speaker 9: spoken hath not reached man. I went indeed unto men,
- 4:58:02Speaker 9: But not yet have I attained unto them? Then was
- 4:58:07Speaker 9: there again spoken unto me without voice?
- 4:58:11Speaker 8: What knowest thou thereof.
- 4:58:15Speaker 9: The dew falleth on.
- 4:58:17Speaker 8: The grass when the night is most silent?
- 4:58:22Speaker 9: And I answered, they mocked me when I found and
- 4:58:26Speaker 9: walked in mine own path, and certainly did my feet
- 4:58:31Speaker 9: then tremble? And thus did they speak unto me? Thou
- 4:58:35Speaker 9: forgottest the path before? Now dost thou also forget how
- 4:58:39Speaker 9: to walk? Then was there again spoken unto me without voice?
- 4:58:46Speaker 8: What matter about their mockery? Thou art one who hast
- 4:58:51Speaker 8: unlearned to obey? Now shalt thou command? Knowest thou not?
- 4:58:59Speaker 8: Who is more is needed by all? He commanded great things.
- 4:59:06Speaker 8: To execute great things is difficult, But the more difficult
- 4:59:11Speaker 8: task is to command great things.
- 4:59:15Speaker 9: This is thy.
- 4:59:16Speaker 8: Most unpardonable obstinacy. Thou hast the power, and thou wilt
- 4:59:23Speaker 8: not roll.
- 4:59:26Speaker 9: And I answered, I lack the lion's voice for all commanding.
- 4:59:33Speaker 9: Then was there again spoken unto me, as a whispering.
- 4:59:39Speaker 8: It is the stellest words which bring the storm. Thoughts
- 4:59:45Speaker 8: that come with dove's footsteps guide the world. Oh Zarathustra,
- 4:59:53Speaker 8: thou shalt go as a shadow of that which is
- 4:59:55Speaker 8: to come. Thus wilt thou command, and in command go foremost.
- 5:00:04Speaker 8: And I answered, I am ashamed. Then was there again
- 5:00:11Speaker 8: spoken unto me, without voice, Thou must yet become a
- 5:00:17Speaker 8: child and be without shame. The bride of youth is
- 5:00:23Speaker 8: still upon thee. Late hast thou become young? But he
- 5:00:29Speaker 8: who had become a child must surmount even his youth.
- 5:00:36Speaker 9: And I considered a long while and trembled. At last, However,
- 5:00:41Speaker 9: did I say what I had said at first? I
- 5:00:45Speaker 9: will not. Then did the laughing take place all around me,
- 5:00:51Speaker 9: alas how that laughing lacerated my bowels and cut into
- 5:00:55Speaker 9: my heart. And there was spoken unto me for the
- 5:01:00Speaker 9: last time, Oh Zarathustra, thy fruits are ripe, but thou
- 5:01:08Speaker 9: art not ripe for thy fruits. So must thou go
- 5:01:14Speaker 9: again into solitude, for thou shalt yet become mellow. And
- 5:01:23Speaker 9: again was there laughing, and it fled. Then did it
- 5:01:28Speaker 9: become still around me, as with a double stillness. I lay, however,
- 5:01:34Speaker 9: on the ground, and the sweat flowed from my limbs.
- 5:01:39Speaker 9: Now have ye heard all? And why I have to
- 5:01:42Speaker 9: return into my solitude? Nothing have I kept hidden from you,
- 5:01:47Speaker 9: my friends? But even this have ye heard from me?
- 5:01:53Speaker 9: Who is still the most reserved of men? And will
- 5:01:56Speaker 9: be so? Ah, my friends, I should have something more
- 5:02:02Speaker 9: to say unto you. I should have something more to
- 5:02:06Speaker 9: give unto you. Why do I not give it? My
- 5:02:11Speaker 9: then an neggard. When, however, Zarathustra had spoken these words,
- 5:02:18Speaker 9: the violence of his pain and a sense of the
- 5:02:21Speaker 9: nearness of his departure from his friends came over him,
- 5:02:25Speaker 9: so that he wept aloud, and no one knew how
- 5:02:28Speaker 9: to console him. In the night, however, he went away
- 5:02:32Speaker 9: alone and left his friends. End of chapter forty four.
- 5:02:43Speaker 10: Third part. He look aloft when he longed for exaltation,
- 5:02:49Speaker 10: and I look downward because I am exalted. Who among
- 5:02:54Speaker 10: you can at the same time laugh and be exalted?
- 5:02:59Speaker 10: He who climbed on the highest mountains laughs at all
- 5:03:02Speaker 10: the tragic plays and tragic realities. Zarathustra Part one reading
- 5:03:10Speaker 10: and writing chapter forty five The Wanderer. Then, when it
- 5:03:19Speaker 10: was about midnight, Zarathustra went on his way over the
- 5:03:22Speaker 10: ridge of the Isle, that he might arrive early in
- 5:03:25Speaker 10: the morning at the other coast, because there he meant
- 5:03:29Speaker 10: to embark, For there was a good roadstead there in
- 5:03:33Speaker 10: which foreign ships also liked to anchor. Those ships took
- 5:03:37Speaker 10: many people with them who wished to cross over from
- 5:03:40Speaker 10: the Happy Isles. So when Zarathustra thus ascended the mountain,
- 5:03:46Speaker 10: he sought on the way of his many solitary wanderings
- 5:03:49Speaker 10: from youth onwards, and how many mountains and ridges and
- 5:03:53Speaker 10: summits he had already climbed. I am a wanderer, and
- 5:03:58Speaker 10: mountain climber heat to his heart. I love not the plains,
- 5:04:03Speaker 10: and it seemeth I cannot long sit still, And whatever
- 5:04:08Speaker 10: may still overtake me as fate and experience a wandering
- 5:04:12Speaker 10: will be therein and a mountain climbing. In the end,
- 5:04:16Speaker 10: one experienceth only oneself. The time is now past when
- 5:04:24Speaker 10: accidents could befall me, And what could now fall to
- 5:04:27Speaker 10: my lot which would not already be mine own? It
- 5:04:32Speaker 10: if returneth only it cometh here to me at last
- 5:04:36Speaker 10: mine own self, and such of it as has been
- 5:04:39Speaker 10: long abroad and scattered among things and accidents. And one
- 5:04:45Speaker 10: thing more do I know? I stand now before my
- 5:04:48Speaker 10: last summit, and before that which has been longest reserved
- 5:04:52Speaker 10: for me. Ah, my hardest pass must I ascend. Ah,
- 5:04:58Speaker 10: I have begun my lonesomest wandering. He, however, who is
- 5:05:04Speaker 10: of my nature, dost not avoid such an hour, the
- 5:05:07Speaker 10: hour that saith unto him. Now only dost thou go
- 5:05:11Speaker 10: the way to thy greatness summit an abyss. These are
- 5:05:15Speaker 10: now comprised together. Thou goest the way to thy greatness.
- 5:05:22Speaker 10: Now hath it become thy last refuge? What was hitherto
- 5:05:26Speaker 10: thy last danger? Thou goest the way to thy greatness.
- 5:05:30Speaker 10: It must now be thy best courage. That there is
- 5:05:33Speaker 10: no longer any path behind thee. Thou goest the way
- 5:05:37Speaker 10: to thy greatness. Here shall no one steal after thee.
- 5:05:41Speaker 10: Thy foot itself has effaced the path behind thee, and
- 5:05:45Speaker 10: ever it st undeth threaten impossibility. And if all ladders
- 5:05:52Speaker 10: henceforth fail thee, then thou must learn to mount upon
- 5:05:55Speaker 10: thine own head. How couldst thou mount upward otherwise upon
- 5:06:01Speaker 10: thine own head? And beyond thine own heart. Now must
- 5:06:06Speaker 10: the gentlest in thee become the hardest. He who hath
- 5:06:11Speaker 10: always much indulged himself sickness. At last, by his much indulgence,
- 5:06:18Speaker 10: praises on what maketh hardy. I do not praise the
- 5:06:21Speaker 10: land where butter and honey flow. To learn to look
- 5:06:26Speaker 10: away from oneself is necessary in order to see many things.
- 5:06:32Speaker 10: This hardness is needed by every mountain climber. He, however,
- 5:06:39Speaker 10: who is obtrusive with his eyes as a discerner, how
- 5:06:43Speaker 10: can he ever see more of anything than its foreground.
- 5:06:48Speaker 10: But thou, o Zarathustra, wouldst view the ground of everything
- 5:06:53Speaker 10: and its background. Thus must thou mount even above thyself
- 5:06:59Speaker 10: up woods, until thou hast even thy stars under thee
- 5:07:05Speaker 10: yea to look down upon myself and even upon my stars.
- 5:07:10Speaker 10: That only would I call my summit that hath remained
- 5:07:13Speaker 10: for me as my last summit. Thus spake Zarathustra to himself,
- 5:07:21Speaker 10: while ascending, comforting his heart with harsh maxims. For he
- 5:07:26Speaker 10: was sore at heart as he had never been before.
- 5:07:31Speaker 10: And when he had reached the top of the mountain ridge,
- 5:07:34Speaker 10: behold there lay the other sea spread out before him,
- 5:07:38Speaker 10: and he stood still and was long silent. The night, however,
- 5:07:43Speaker 10: was cold at this height and clear and starry. I
- 5:07:50Speaker 10: recognize my destiny, said he at last, sadly. Well, I
- 5:07:55Speaker 10: am ready. Now hath my last lonesomeness begun? Ah, this somber,
- 5:08:02Speaker 10: sad sea below me. Ah, this somber nocturnal vexation our
- 5:08:09Speaker 10: fate and sea to you? Must I now go down?
- 5:08:16Speaker 10: Before my highest mountain do I stand, and before my
- 5:08:19Speaker 10: longest wandering Therefore must I go deeper down than I
- 5:08:24Speaker 10: ever ascend? It, deeper down into pane than I ever ascended,
- 5:08:29Speaker 10: even into its darkest flood. So willeth my fate. Well,
- 5:08:35Speaker 10: I am ready. Whence came the highest mountains, so did
- 5:08:41Speaker 10: I once ask? Then did I learn that they came
- 5:08:45Speaker 10: out of the sea. That testimony is inscribed on their
- 5:08:50Speaker 10: stones and on the walls of their summits. Out of
- 5:08:54Speaker 10: the deepest. Must the highest come to its height? Thus
- 5:09:00Speaker 10: spake Zarathustra on the ridge of the mountain, where it
- 5:09:02Speaker 10: was cold. When, however, he came into the vicinity of
- 5:09:06Speaker 10: the sea and at last stood alone amongst the cliffs.
- 5:09:11Speaker 10: Then he had become weary on his way, and eagerer
- 5:09:15Speaker 10: than ever before everything as yet sleepeth, said he. Even
- 5:09:22Speaker 10: the sea sleepeth drowsily, and strangely doth its eye gaze
- 5:09:27Speaker 10: upon me, But it breatheth warmly. I feel it, and
- 5:09:33Speaker 10: I feel also that it dreameth. It tosseth about dreamily
- 5:09:38Speaker 10: on hard pillows, hark, hark, how it groaneth with evil
- 5:09:45Speaker 10: recollections or evil expectations. Ah, I am sad along with thee,
- 5:09:53Speaker 10: thou dusky monster, and angry with myself, even for thy sake,
- 5:09:59Speaker 10: are that my and hast not strength enough? Gladly indeed
- 5:10:03Speaker 10: would I free thee from evil dreams? And while Zarathustra
- 5:10:08Speaker 10: thus spake, he laughed at himself with melancholy and bitterness.
- 5:10:15Speaker 10: What Zarathustra said, he wilt thou even sing consolation to
- 5:10:20Speaker 10: the sea. Ah thou amiable fool. Zarathustra, thou too blindly
- 5:10:27Speaker 10: confiding one. But thus hast thou ever been, ever, hast
- 5:10:33Speaker 10: thou approached confidently all that is terrible? Every monster? Wouldst
- 5:10:39Speaker 10: thou caress a whiff of warm breath, a little soft
- 5:10:44Speaker 10: tuft on its poor and immediately wert thou ready to
- 5:10:48Speaker 10: love and lure it. Love is the danger of the
- 5:10:53Speaker 10: lonesomest one. Love to anything, if it only live loveable
- 5:11:00Speaker 10: verily is my folly and my modesty in love. Thus
- 5:11:06Speaker 10: spake Zarathustra and laughed thereby a second time. Then, however,
- 5:11:12Speaker 10: he thought of his abandoned friends, and as if he
- 5:11:16Speaker 10: had done them wrong with his thoughts, he upbraided himself
- 5:11:20Speaker 10: because of his thoughts, and forthwith it came to pass
- 5:11:25Speaker 10: that the laughter wept with anger and longing wept Zarathustra bitterly.
- 5:11:34Speaker 10: End of chapter forty five Chapter forty six, The Vision
- 5:11:44Speaker 10: and the Enigma one. When it got abroad, among the
- 5:11:50Speaker 10: sailors that Zarathustra was on board the ship, for a
- 5:11:55Speaker 10: man who came from the Happy Isles had gone on
- 5:11:57Speaker 10: board along with him, there was great curiosity and expectation.
- 5:12:04Speaker 10: But Zarathustra kept silent for two days and was cold
- 5:12:08Speaker 10: and deaf with sadness, so that he neither answered looks
- 5:12:13Speaker 10: nor questions. On the evening of the second day, however,
- 5:12:19Speaker 10: he again opened his ears, though he still kept silent,
- 5:12:24Speaker 10: for there were many curious and dangerous things to be
- 5:12:26Speaker 10: heard on board the ship, which came from Afar and
- 5:12:31Speaker 10: was to go still further. Zarathustra, however, was fond of
- 5:12:36Speaker 10: all those who make distant voyages and disliked to live
- 5:12:39Speaker 10: without danger. And behold, when listening his own tongue was
- 5:12:44Speaker 10: at last loostened, and the eyes of his heart broke.
- 5:12:48Speaker 10: Then did he begin to speak Thus to you, the daring,
- 5:12:53Speaker 10: venturous and adventurous, and whoever has embarked with cunning sails
- 5:12:58Speaker 10: upon frightful sea, to you, the enigma intoxicated, the twilight enjoyers,
- 5:13:06Speaker 10: whose souls are allured by flutes, to every treacherous gulf.
- 5:13:12Speaker 10: For ye dislike to grope at a thread with cowardly hand,
- 5:13:16Speaker 10: and where ye can divine there do ye hate to calculate?
- 5:13:22Speaker 10: To you, only do I tell the enigma that I
- 5:13:25Speaker 10: saw the vision of the lonesomest one, gloomily walked ire
- 5:13:31Speaker 10: lately in corpse colored twilight, gloomily and sternly with compressed lips.
- 5:13:38Speaker 10: Not only one's sun had set for me a path
- 5:13:43Speaker 10: which ascended daringly among boulders, an evil, lonesome path which
- 5:13:48Speaker 10: neither herb nor shrub any longer cheered, A mountain path
- 5:13:53Speaker 10: crunched under the daring of my foot, mutely marching over
- 5:13:58Speaker 10: the scornful clinking of pepper trampling the stone that let
- 5:14:02Speaker 10: it slip. Thus did my foot force its way upwards, upwards,
- 5:14:08Speaker 10: in spite of the spirit that drew it downwards towards
- 5:14:12Speaker 10: the abyss, the spirit of gravity, my devil and arch enemy, upwards,
- 5:14:19Speaker 10: although it sat upon me half dwarf, half mole, paralyzed, paralyzing,
- 5:14:24Speaker 10: dripping lead in mine ear, and thoughts like drops of
- 5:14:28Speaker 10: lead into my brain. O Zarathustra, it whispered, scornfully syllable
- 5:14:34Speaker 10: by syllable, Thou stone of wisdom, Thou throwest thyself high,
- 5:14:41Speaker 10: but every throne stone must fall, O Zarathustra, Thou stone
- 5:14:48Speaker 10: of wisdom, thou slingstone, Thou stardest trial thyself. Throwest thou
- 5:14:55Speaker 10: so high, but every throne stone must fall, condemned of
- 5:15:02Speaker 10: thyself and to thine own stoning. O Zarathustra. Far indeed,
- 5:15:08Speaker 10: throwest thou thy stone, but upon thyself will it recoil?
- 5:15:16Speaker 10: Then was the dwarf silent, and it lasted long. The silence, however,
- 5:15:22Speaker 10: oppressed me. And to be thus in pairs one is
- 5:15:26Speaker 10: verily lonesomer than when alone I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt,
- 5:15:33Speaker 10: I thought, but everything oppressed me. A sick one did
- 5:15:38Speaker 10: I resemble whom bad torture wearieth, and a worse dream
- 5:15:43Speaker 10: reawakeneth out of his first sleep. But there is something
- 5:15:49Speaker 10: in me which I call courage. It hath hitherto slain
- 5:15:53Speaker 10: for me every dejection. This courage at last bade me
- 5:15:58Speaker 10: stand still and say, dwarf thou or I. For courage
- 5:16:04Speaker 10: is the best slayer courage which attacketh. For in every
- 5:16:09Speaker 10: attack there is sound of triumph. Man, however, is the
- 5:16:15Speaker 10: most courageous animal. Thereby has he overcome every animal with
- 5:16:21Speaker 10: sound of triumph? Has he overcome every pain? Human pain, however,
- 5:16:26Speaker 10: is the sorest pain. Courage slayeth also giddiness at abysses.
- 5:16:33Speaker 10: And where does man not stand at abysses? Is not
- 5:16:37Speaker 10: seeing itself seeing abysses. Courage is the best slayer. Courage
- 5:16:45Speaker 10: slayeth also fellow suffering. Fellow suffering, however, is the deepest
- 5:16:50Speaker 10: abyss As deeply as man looketh into life, so deeply
- 5:16:55Speaker 10: also does he look into suffering. Courage, how however, is
- 5:17:00Speaker 10: the best slayer courage which attacketh. It slayeth even death itself,
- 5:17:07Speaker 10: for it saith was that life well once more, in
- 5:17:14Speaker 10: such speech, however, there is much sound of triumph. He
- 5:17:19Speaker 10: who hath ears to hear, let him hear two halt,
- 5:17:27Speaker 10: Dwarf said, I, either I or thou. I, however, am
- 5:17:33Speaker 10: the stronger of the two. Thou knowest not mine abysmal
- 5:17:37Speaker 10: thought it couldst thou not endure. Then happened that which
- 5:17:44Speaker 10: made me lighter. For the dwarf sprang from my shoulder,
- 5:17:48Speaker 10: the prying sprite, and it squatted on a stone in
- 5:17:52Speaker 10: front of me. There was, however, a gateway just where
- 5:17:56Speaker 10: we halted. Look at this gate way, dwarf, I continued,
- 5:18:03Speaker 10: It has two faces, two roads come together here these
- 5:18:08Speaker 10: has no one yet gone to the end of this
- 5:18:13Speaker 10: long lane backwards it continues for an eternity, and that
- 5:18:18Speaker 10: long lane forward that is another eternity. They are antithetical
- 5:18:24Speaker 10: to one another. These roads. They directly abut on one another.
- 5:18:29Speaker 10: And it is here, at this gateway that they come together.
- 5:18:35Speaker 10: The name of the gateway is inscribed above this moment.
- 5:18:41Speaker 10: But should one follow them further and even further and
- 5:18:44Speaker 10: further on, thinkest thou, Dwarf, that these roads would be
- 5:18:48Speaker 10: eternally antithetical everything straight, Lith murmured the dwarf contemptuously. All
- 5:18:57Speaker 10: truth is crooked. Time itself a circle, Thou spirit of gravity,
- 5:19:04Speaker 10: said I wrathfully. Do not take it too lightly, or
- 5:19:09Speaker 10: I shall let thee squat where thou squattest, haltfoot, and
- 5:19:13Speaker 10: I carry thee high observe continued I this moment from
- 5:19:21Speaker 10: the gateway, this moment there runneth a long eternal lane
- 5:19:26Speaker 10: backwards behind us lieth an eternity. Must not whatever can
- 5:19:33Speaker 10: run its course of all things have already run along
- 5:19:37Speaker 10: that lane. Must not whatever can happen of all things
- 5:19:41Speaker 10: have already happened, resulted and gone by. And if everything
- 5:19:47Speaker 10: have already existed, what thinkest thou dwarf of this moment?
- 5:19:54Speaker 10: Must not this gateway also have already existed? And are
- 5:19:59Speaker 10: not all things closely bound together in such wise that
- 5:20:04Speaker 10: this moment draw us all coming things after it? Consequently
- 5:20:11Speaker 10: itself also, for whatever can run its course of all
- 5:20:16Speaker 10: things also in this long lane outward, must it once
- 5:20:21Speaker 10: more run? And this slow spider which creepeth in the moonlight,
- 5:20:28Speaker 10: and this moonlight itself, and thou and I in this gateway,
- 5:20:31Speaker 10: whispering together whispering of eternal things, must we not all
- 5:20:35Speaker 10: have already existed? And must we not return and run
- 5:20:41Speaker 10: in that other lane out before us that long, weird lane.
- 5:20:46Speaker 10: Must we not eternally return? Thus did I speak, and
- 5:20:52Speaker 10: always more softly, for I was afraid of mine own
- 5:20:55Speaker 10: thoughts and ar rear sorts. Then suddenly did a hero
- 5:21:00Speaker 10: a dog howl near me? Had I ever heard a
- 5:21:05Speaker 10: dog howl? Thus my thoughts ran back, yes, when I
- 5:21:11Speaker 10: was a child, in my most distant childhood. Then did
- 5:21:17Speaker 10: a hero dog howl? Thus, and saw it also with
- 5:21:21Speaker 10: hair bristling its head upwards, trembling in the stillest midnight,
- 5:21:27Speaker 10: when even dogs believe in ghosts, so that it excited
- 5:21:32Speaker 10: my commiseration. For just then went the full moon, silent
- 5:21:37Speaker 10: as death over the house. Just then did it stand still,
- 5:21:41Speaker 10: a glowing globe at rest from the flat roof, as
- 5:21:46Speaker 10: if on someone's property. There had the dog been terrified?
- 5:21:52Speaker 10: For dogs believe in thieves and ghosts? And when I
- 5:21:56Speaker 10: again heard such howling, then did it excite my commiseration
- 5:22:01Speaker 10: once more? Where was now the dwarf and the gateway,
- 5:22:07Speaker 10: and the spider and all the whispering? Had I dreamt?
- 5:22:12Speaker 10: Had I awakened TwixT rugged rocks? Did I suddenly stand alone,
- 5:22:18Speaker 10: dreary in the dreariest moonlight? But there lay a man,
- 5:22:24Speaker 10: And there the dog leaping, bristling, whining. Now did it
- 5:22:29Speaker 10: see me coming? Then did it howl again? Then did
- 5:22:33Speaker 10: it cry? Had I ever heard a dog cry so
- 5:22:36Speaker 10: for help? And verily what I saw the like? Had
- 5:22:43Speaker 10: I never seen a young shepherd? Did I see rising, choking,
- 5:22:48Speaker 10: quivering with distorted countenance, and with a heavy black serpent
- 5:22:53Speaker 10: hanging out of his mouth? Had I ever seen so
- 5:22:58Speaker 10: much loathing and pale horror on one countenance? He had
- 5:23:03Speaker 10: perhaps gone to sleep? Then had the serpent crawled into
- 5:23:07Speaker 10: his throat? There? Had it bitten itself fast? My hand
- 5:23:14Speaker 10: pulled at the serpent and pulled in vain. I failed
- 5:23:18Speaker 10: to pull the serpent out of his throat. Then there
- 5:23:22Speaker 10: cried out of me, bite, bite it's head off. Bite,
- 5:23:30Speaker 10: So cried it out of me. My horror, my hatred,
- 5:23:34Speaker 10: my loathing, my pity, all my good and my bad,
- 5:23:37Speaker 10: cried with one voice out of me. He daring ones
- 5:23:42Speaker 10: around me, he venturous and adventurous. And whoever of you
- 5:23:47Speaker 10: have embarked with cunning sails on unexplored seas, he enigma
- 5:23:53Speaker 10: enjoyers solve unto me the enigma that I then beheld,
- 5:23:59Speaker 10: interpret unto me the vision of the lonesomest one, For
- 5:24:05Speaker 10: it was a vision and a foresight. What did I
- 5:24:09Speaker 10: then behold in parable? And who is it that must
- 5:24:13Speaker 10: come some day? Who is the shepherd into whose throat
- 5:24:18Speaker 10: the serpent thus crawled? Who is the man into whose throat?
- 5:24:22Speaker 10: Or the heaviest and blackest will thus crawl the shepherd? However,
- 5:24:29Speaker 10: bit as my cry had admonished him, he bit with
- 5:24:32Speaker 10: a strong bite. Far away did he spit the head
- 5:24:36Speaker 10: of the serpent, and sprang up. No longer shepherd, no
- 5:24:41Speaker 10: longer man, a transfigured being, a light surrounded being that laughed.
- 5:24:47Speaker 10: Never on earth laughed man as he laughed, O, my brethren,
- 5:24:53Speaker 10: I heard a laughter which was no human laughter, And
- 5:24:57Speaker 10: now gnawsed a thirst at me, a longing that is
- 5:25:00Speaker 10: never allayed. My longing for that laughter? Know was that me? Oh,
- 5:25:07Speaker 10: how can I still endure to live? And how could
- 5:25:10Speaker 10: I endure to die? At present? Thus spake Zarathustra, end
- 5:25:19Speaker 10: of Chapter forty.
- 5:25:20Speaker 5: Six, third part, Chapter forty seven, involuntary bliss, With such
- 5:25:32Speaker 5: enigmas and bitterness in his heart, did Zarathustra sail over
- 5:25:36Speaker 5: the sea, When, however, he was four day journeys from
- 5:25:40Speaker 5: the Happy Isles, and from his friends. Then had he
- 5:25:43Speaker 5: surmounted all his pain triumphantly and with firm foot, did
- 5:25:48Speaker 5: he again accept his fate? And then talked to Zarathustra
- 5:25:51Speaker 5: in this wise to his exulting conscience. Alone am I
- 5:25:57Speaker 5: again and like to be so alone with the pure
- 5:26:00Speaker 5: heaven and the open sea? And again is the afternoon
- 5:26:04Speaker 5: around me? On an afternoon? Did I find my friends
- 5:26:09Speaker 5: for the first time on an afternoon? Also did I
- 5:26:13Speaker 5: find them a second time? At the hour when all
- 5:26:16Speaker 5: light becometh stiller? For whatever happiness is still on its
- 5:26:20Speaker 5: way TwixT heaven and earth, now seeketh for lodging A
- 5:26:24Speaker 5: luminous soul with happiness hath all light now become stiller?
- 5:26:29Speaker 5: Oh afternoon of my life? Once did my happiness also
- 5:26:34Speaker 5: descend to the valley, that it might seek a lodging?
- 5:26:38Speaker 5: Then did it find those open, hospitable souls, Oh afternoon
- 5:26:43Speaker 5: of my life? What did I not surrender that I
- 5:26:47Speaker 5: might have one thing, this living plantation of my thoughts,
- 5:26:52Speaker 5: and this dawn of my highest hope? Companions? Did the
- 5:26:56Speaker 5: creating one once seek and children of his hope? And
- 5:27:00Speaker 5: Lo it turned out that he could not find them,
- 5:27:03Speaker 5: except he himself should first create them. Thus am I,
- 5:27:09Speaker 5: in the midst of my work to my children, going
- 5:27:12Speaker 5: and from them returning for the sake of his children,
- 5:27:16Speaker 5: must Zarathustra perfect himself. For in one's heart one loveth
- 5:27:22Speaker 5: only one's child and one's work. And where there is
- 5:27:26Speaker 5: great love to one's self, then is it the sign
- 5:27:29Speaker 5: of pregnancy. So have I found it. Still are my
- 5:27:34Speaker 5: children verdant in their first spring, standing nigh one another,
- 5:27:38Speaker 5: and shaken in common by the winds the trees of
- 5:27:42Speaker 5: my garden and of my best soil. And verily, where
- 5:27:47Speaker 5: such trees stand beside one another there are happy isle.
- 5:27:51Speaker 5: But one day I will take them up and put
- 5:27:54Speaker 5: each by itself alone, that it may learn lonesomeness and
- 5:27:58Speaker 5: defiance and prudence. Gnarled and crooked and with flexible hardness,
- 5:28:03Speaker 5: Shall it then stand by the sea a living lighthouse
- 5:28:07Speaker 5: of unconquerable life yonder, with the storms rush down into
- 5:28:11Speaker 5: the sea, and the snout of the mountain drinketh water.
- 5:28:15Speaker 5: Shall each on a time have his day and night
- 5:28:18Speaker 5: watches for his testing and recognition. Recognized and tested, shall
- 5:28:24Speaker 5: each be to see if he be of my type
- 5:28:27Speaker 5: and lineage, if he be master of a long will, silent,
- 5:28:32Speaker 5: even when he speaketh and giving in such wise that
- 5:28:35Speaker 5: he taketh in giving, so that he may one day
- 5:28:39Speaker 5: become my companion, my fellow creator, and fellow enjoyer. With Zarathustra,
- 5:28:45Speaker 5: such a one as righteth my will on my tables,
- 5:28:49Speaker 5: for the fuller perfection of all things, and for his
- 5:28:52Speaker 5: sake and for those like him, I must perfect myself.
- 5:28:56Speaker 5: Therefore do I now avoid my happiness, and present myself
- 5:29:00Speaker 5: to every misfortune for my final testing and recognition. And
- 5:29:05Speaker 5: verily it were time that I went away, And the
- 5:29:09Speaker 5: wanderer's shadow, and the longest tedium and the stillest hour
- 5:29:13Speaker 5: have all said unto me, it is the highest time.
- 5:29:18Speaker 5: The word blew to me through the keyhole and said come.
- 5:29:22Speaker 5: The door sprang subtly open to me, and said go.
- 5:29:26Speaker 5: But I lay in chain to my love for my children.
- 5:29:29Speaker 5: Desire spread this snare for me, the desire for love,
- 5:29:34Speaker 5: that I should become the prey of my children and
- 5:29:37Speaker 5: lose myself in them, desiring that is now for me
- 5:29:41Speaker 5: to have lost myself. I possess you, my children. In
- 5:29:46Speaker 5: this possessing shall everything be assurance, and nothing desire but brooding.
- 5:29:51Speaker 5: Lay the son of my love upon me in his
- 5:29:54Speaker 5: own juice to Zarathustra. Then did shadows and doubts fly
- 5:29:58Speaker 5: past me for frost and winter. I now longed, oh
- 5:30:03Speaker 5: that frost and winter would again make me crack and
- 5:30:06Speaker 5: crunch sighed. I then arose icy mist out of me,
- 5:30:11Speaker 5: My past burst its tomb, my pains buried alive, woke
- 5:30:15Speaker 5: up fully slept, had they merely concealed in corpse clothes,
- 5:30:21Speaker 5: so called everything unto me in signs it is time.
- 5:30:26Speaker 5: But I heard not until at last mine abyss moved,
- 5:30:30Speaker 5: and my thought bit me, Ah abysmal thought, which art
- 5:30:35Speaker 5: my thought? When shall I find strength to hear thee burrowing?
- 5:30:40Speaker 5: And no longer tremble to my very throat throbbeth my heart?
- 5:30:44Speaker 5: When I hear thee burrowing? Thy muteness even is like
- 5:30:49Speaker 5: to strangle me, thou abysmal mute one. As yet have
- 5:30:53Speaker 5: I never ventured to call thee up?
- 5:30:56Speaker 8: It?
- 5:30:56Speaker 5: Hath been enough that I have carried thee about with me?
- 5:31:00Speaker 5: As yet have I not been strong enough for my
- 5:31:03Speaker 5: final lie in wantonness and playfulness sufficiently formidable under me?
- 5:31:09Speaker 5: Hath my weight ever been? But one day shall I
- 5:31:13Speaker 5: find the strength and the lion's voice which will call
- 5:31:16Speaker 5: THEE up when I shall have surmounted myself therein. Then
- 5:31:21Speaker 5: will I surmount myself also in that which is greater,
- 5:31:25Speaker 5: and a victory shall be the seal of my perfection. Meanwhile,
- 5:31:31Speaker 5: do I sail along on uncertain seas? Chance flattereth me,
- 5:31:36Speaker 5: smooth tongued chance? Forward and backward? Do I gaze still?
- 5:31:41Speaker 5: I see no end? As yet hath the hour of
- 5:31:44Speaker 5: my final struggle not come to me? Or doth it
- 5:31:48Speaker 5: come to me? Perhaps just now? Verily? With insidious beauty?
- 5:31:53Speaker 5: Do sea and life gaze upon me round about, Oh
- 5:31:56Speaker 5: afternoon of my life, Oh happiness before even tide, Oh
- 5:32:01Speaker 5: even upon high seas, O peace in uncertainty? Thou I
- 5:32:06Speaker 5: distrust all of you verily, Distrustful am I of your
- 5:32:10Speaker 5: insidious beauty? Like the lover am I who distrusteth too sleek,
- 5:32:15Speaker 5: smiling as he pusheth the best loved before him, tender
- 5:32:20Speaker 5: even in severity the jealous one. So do I push
- 5:32:24Speaker 5: this blissful hour before me away with THEE? Thou blissful
- 5:32:28Speaker 5: hour with THEE? Hath there come to me an involuntary
- 5:32:32Speaker 5: bliss ready for my severest pain? Do I here stand
- 5:32:38Speaker 5: at the wrong time? Hast thou come away with thee
- 5:32:42Speaker 5: thou blissful hour, Rather harbor there with my children, hasten
- 5:32:48Speaker 5: and bless them before eventide, with my happiness there already
- 5:32:53Speaker 5: approacheth Eventide the sun sinketh away. My happiness thus spakes
- 5:32:59Speaker 5: there Eustra. And he waited for his misfortune the whole night.
- 5:33:04Speaker 5: But he waited in vain. The night remained clear and calm,
- 5:33:08Speaker 5: and happiness itself came nigher and nigher unto him. Towards morning, however,
- 5:33:15Speaker 5: Zarathustra laughed to his heart and said, mockingly, happiness runneth
- 5:33:21Speaker 5: after me. That is because they do not run after women. Happiness, however,
- 5:33:27Speaker 5: is a woman. End of Chapter forty seven.
- 5:33:37Speaker 10: Part forty eight. Before sunrise, O heaven above me, thou
- 5:33:43Speaker 10: pure thou, deep heaven, thou abyss of light. Gazing on thee,
- 5:33:49Speaker 10: I tremble with divine desires up to thy height, to
- 5:33:53Speaker 10: toss myself, that is my depths in thy purity, to
- 5:33:57Speaker 10: hide myself, that is mine innocence. The God veileth his beauty.
- 5:34:04Speaker 10: Thus hidest thou thy stars. Thou speakest not thus proclaimest
- 5:34:10Speaker 10: thou thy wisdom unto me mute o'er the raging sea.
- 5:34:15Speaker 10: Hast thou risen for me to day? Thy love and
- 5:34:18Speaker 10: thy modesty make a revelation unto my raging soul, in
- 5:34:23Speaker 10: that thou camest unto me, beautiful veiled in thy beauty,
- 5:34:28Speaker 10: in that thou spakest unto me mutely obvious in thy wisdom. Oh,
- 5:34:34Speaker 10: how could I fail to divine all the modesty of
- 5:34:36Speaker 10: thy soul? Before the sun didst thou come unto me
- 5:34:41Speaker 10: the lonesomest one. We have been friends from the beginning.
- 5:34:46Speaker 10: To us, our grief, gruesomeness, and ground common even the
- 5:34:50Speaker 10: sun is common to us. We do not speak to
- 5:34:54Speaker 10: each other because we know too much. We keep silent
- 5:34:57Speaker 10: to each other. We smile all not to each other.
- 5:35:02Speaker 10: Art thou not the light of my fire? Hast thou
- 5:35:05Speaker 10: not the sister soul of mine?
- 5:35:06Speaker 9: In sight?
- 5:35:08Speaker 10: Together? Did we learn everything together, to be learned to
- 5:35:11Speaker 10: ascend beyond ourselves to ourselves, and to smile uncloudedly, uncloudedly,
- 5:35:18Speaker 10: to smile down out of luminous eyes and out of
- 5:35:21Speaker 10: miles of distance. When under us constraint and purpose and guilt,
- 5:35:26Speaker 10: steam like rain, and wandered I alone, for what did
- 5:35:31Speaker 10: my soul hunger by night, and in labyrinthine paths, and
- 5:35:36Speaker 10: climbed thy mountains. Whom did I ever seek if not THEE?
- 5:35:39Speaker 10: Upon mountains, and all my wandering and mountain climbing a necessity,
- 5:35:46Speaker 10: was it merely and a makeshift of the unhandy one?
- 5:35:50Speaker 5: To fly?
- 5:35:50Speaker 10: Only wanteth mine entire will to fly into THEE. And
- 5:35:56Speaker 10: what have I hated more than passing clouds? And whatever
- 5:35:59Speaker 10: taint is THEE and mine own hatred? Have I even
- 5:36:03Speaker 10: hated because it tainted THEE? The passing clouds. I detest
- 5:36:10Speaker 10: those stealthy cats of prey. They take from THEE and
- 5:36:14Speaker 10: me what is common to us, the vast, unbounded. Yea
- 5:36:17Speaker 10: and amen, saying, these mediators and mixers, we detest the
- 5:36:23Speaker 10: passing clouds, those half and half ones that have neither
- 5:36:27Speaker 10: learned to bless nor to curse from the heart. Rather
- 5:36:32Speaker 10: will I sit in a tub under a closed heaven?
- 5:36:35Speaker 10: Rather will I sit in the abyss without heaven? Than
- 5:36:38Speaker 10: see THEE? Thou luminous heaven taint it with passing clouds?
- 5:36:44Speaker 10: And oft have I longed to pin them fast with
- 5:36:47Speaker 10: the jagged gold wires of lightning, that I might like
- 5:36:50Speaker 10: the thunder beat the drum upon their kettle bellies, an
- 5:36:57Speaker 10: angry drummer, because they rob me of thy yea, And amen,
- 5:37:01Speaker 10: thou heaven above me, thou pure, Thou luminous Heaven, Thou
- 5:37:05Speaker 10: abyss of light, because they rob thee of my yea,
- 5:37:09Speaker 10: and Amen. For rather will I have noise and thunders
- 5:37:14Speaker 10: and tempest blasts than this discreet, doubting, cut repose. And
- 5:37:20Speaker 10: also amongst men do I hate most of the soft
- 5:37:23Speaker 10: treaders and half and half ones, and the doubting, hesitating
- 5:37:26Speaker 10: passing clouds. And he who cannot bless shall learn to
- 5:37:32Speaker 10: curse this clear teaching dropped unto me from the clear heaven.
- 5:37:37Speaker 10: This star standeth in my heaven even in dark nights. I, however,
- 5:37:44Speaker 10: am a blesser and a yaysayer. If thou be but
- 5:37:47Speaker 10: around me, thou pure, thou luminous Heaven, thou abyss of light,
- 5:37:53Speaker 10: into all abysses? Do I then carry my beneficent yea,
- 5:37:56Speaker 10: saying a blesser have I become and a yeasayer? And
- 5:38:01Speaker 10: therefore strove along and was a striver that I might
- 5:38:05Speaker 10: one day get my hands free for blessing. This, however,
- 5:38:10Speaker 10: is my blessing, to stand above everything as its own heaven,
- 5:38:14Speaker 10: its round roof, its asure, belle and eternal security. And
- 5:38:19Speaker 10: blessed is he who thus blesseth, for all things are
- 5:38:23Speaker 10: baptized at the front of eternity, and beyond good and evil.
- 5:38:28Speaker 10: Good and evil themselves, however, are but fudative shadows and
- 5:38:32Speaker 10: damp afflictions and passing clouds. Verily, it is a blessing
- 5:38:37Speaker 10: and not a blasphemy when I teach that above all
- 5:38:41Speaker 10: things there standeth the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence,
- 5:38:45Speaker 10: the heaven of hazard, the heaven of wantonness of hazard.
- 5:38:51Speaker 10: That is the oldest nobility in the world, that gave
- 5:38:54Speaker 10: us back to all things. I emancipated them from bondage
- 5:38:59Speaker 10: under purpose this freedom and celestial serenity. Did I put
- 5:39:05Speaker 10: like an azure bell above all things when are taught
- 5:39:08Speaker 10: that over them and through them no eternal will willeth
- 5:39:15Speaker 10: This wantonness and folly? Did I put in place of
- 5:39:18Speaker 10: that will? When I taught that in everything there is
- 5:39:21Speaker 10: one thing impossible, rationality, a little reason to be sure,
- 5:39:28Speaker 10: a germ of wisdom scattered from star to star. This
- 5:39:31Speaker 10: heaven is mixed in all things for the sake of folly.
- 5:39:34Speaker 10: Wisdom is mixed in all things. A little wisdom is
- 5:39:39Speaker 10: indeed possible. But this blessed security have I found in
- 5:39:43Speaker 10: all things? That they prefer to dance on the feet
- 5:39:46Speaker 10: of trance? O Heaven above me, thou pure, thou lofty heaven.
- 5:39:53Speaker 10: This is now thy purity, unto me that there is
- 5:39:56Speaker 10: no eternal reason, spider and reason cobweb. That thou art
- 5:40:01Speaker 10: to me dancing floor for divine chances. That thou art
- 5:40:05Speaker 10: to me a table of the gods for divine dice
- 5:40:08Speaker 10: and dice players. But thou blushest have I spoken unspeakable things?
- 5:40:14Speaker 10: Have I abused when I meant to bless thee? Or
- 5:40:18Speaker 10: is it the shame of being two of us that
- 5:40:20Speaker 10: maketh thee blush? Dost thou bid me go and be silent,
- 5:40:24Speaker 10: Because now day cometh. The world is deep and deeper
- 5:40:30Speaker 10: than e'er the day could read. Not everything may be
- 5:40:34Speaker 10: uttered in presence of day, but day cometh. So let
- 5:40:39Speaker 10: us part, O Heaven above me, thou modest one, thou
- 5:40:44Speaker 10: glowing one, O thou my happiness before sunrise the day cometh.
- 5:40:50Speaker 10: So let us part. Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Part
- 5:40:57Speaker 10: forty eight, Part forty nine, The Bedwarfing Virtue One. When
- 5:41:06Speaker 10: Zarathustra was again on the continent, he did not go
- 5:41:09Speaker 10: straightway to his mountains and his cave, but made many
- 5:41:13Speaker 10: wonderings and questionings, and ascertained this and that, so that
- 5:41:18Speaker 10: he said of himself jestingly, low a river that floweth
- 5:41:23Speaker 10: back unto its source in many windings. For he wanted
- 5:41:28Speaker 10: to learn what had taken place among men during the interval,
- 5:41:32Speaker 10: whether they had become greater or smaller. And once, when
- 5:41:37Speaker 10: he saw a row of new houses, he marveled and said,
- 5:41:41Speaker 10: what do these houses mean? Verily, no great soul put
- 5:41:45Speaker 10: them up, as it simile? Did Perhaps a silly child
- 5:41:50Speaker 10: take them out of its toy box. Would that another
- 5:41:53Speaker 10: child put them again into the box. And these rooms
- 5:41:58Speaker 10: and chambers can men go out? And in there? They
- 5:42:02Speaker 10: seem to be made for silk dolls, or for dainty eaters,
- 5:42:06Speaker 10: who perhaps let others eat with them. And Zarathustra stood
- 5:42:11Speaker 10: still and meditated. At last, he said, sorrowfully, there hath
- 5:42:16Speaker 10: everything become smaller? Everywhere? Do I see lower doorways? He
- 5:42:22Speaker 10: who is of my type can still go there through,
- 5:42:25Speaker 10: but he must stoop. Oh, when shall I arrive again
- 5:42:29Speaker 10: at my home, where I shall no longer have to stoop,
- 5:42:33Speaker 10: shall no longer have to stoop before the small ones.
- 5:42:37Speaker 10: And Zarathustra sighed and gazed into the distance. The same day, however,
- 5:42:43Speaker 10: he gave his discourse on the bedwarfing virtue. Two. I
- 5:42:50Speaker 10: passed through this people and keep mine eyes open. They
- 5:42:54Speaker 10: do not forgive me for not envying their virtues. They
- 5:42:58Speaker 10: bite at me because I say unto them that for
- 5:43:00Speaker 10: small people, small virtues are necessary, and because it is
- 5:43:04Speaker 10: hard for me to understand that small people are necessary.
- 5:43:10Speaker 10: Here I am still a cock in a strange farm
- 5:43:12Speaker 10: yard at which even the hens peck. But on that
- 5:43:16Speaker 10: account I am not unfriendly to the hens. I am
- 5:43:19Speaker 10: courteous towards them, as towards all small annoyances. To be
- 5:43:24Speaker 10: prickly towards what is small seemeth to me wisdom for hedgehogs.
- 5:43:29Speaker 10: They all speak of me when they sit around their
- 5:43:31Speaker 10: fire in the evening. They speak of me, but no
- 5:43:34Speaker 10: one thinks of me. This is the new stillness which
- 5:43:39Speaker 10: I have experienced. Their noise around me spread is a
- 5:43:42Speaker 10: mantle over my thoughts. They shout to one another, what
- 5:43:48Speaker 10: is this gloomy cloud? About to do to us. Let
- 5:43:51Speaker 10: us see that it does not bring a plague upon us.
- 5:43:55Speaker 10: And recently did a woman seize upon her child that
- 5:43:58Speaker 10: was coming unto me? Take the children away? Cried she.
- 5:44:02Speaker 10: Such eyes scorch children's souls. They cough when I speak.
- 5:44:08Speaker 10: They think coughing an objection to strong winds. They divine
- 5:44:13Speaker 10: nothing of the boisterousness of my happiness. We have not
- 5:44:17Speaker 10: yet time for Zarathustra, so they object. But what matter
- 5:44:21Speaker 10: about a time that hath no time for Zarathustra? And
- 5:44:26Speaker 10: if they should altogether praise me, how could I get
- 5:44:29Speaker 10: to sleep on their praise? A girdle of spines is
- 5:44:34Speaker 10: their praise unto me? It scratches me even when I
- 5:44:37Speaker 10: take it off. And this also did I learn among
- 5:44:41Speaker 10: them the praiser doeth as if he gave back in truth.
- 5:44:45Speaker 10: However he wanteth more to be given him. Ask my foot.
- 5:44:50Speaker 10: If their lording and luring strains please it verily to
- 5:44:54Speaker 10: such measure and tick tack, it liketh neither to dance
- 5:44:58Speaker 10: nor to stand still to small virtues. Would they fain
- 5:45:03Speaker 10: lure and lrd me to the tic tack of small happiness?
- 5:45:06Speaker 10: Would they faint persuade my foot, I pass through this people,
- 5:45:11Speaker 10: and keep mine eyes open. They have become smaller, and
- 5:45:14Speaker 10: ever become smaller. The reason thereof is their doctrine of
- 5:45:18Speaker 10: happiness and virtue. For they are moderate also in virtue,
- 5:45:23Speaker 10: because they want comfort with comfort. However, moderate virtue only
- 5:45:27Speaker 10: is compatible. To be sure. They also learn in their
- 5:45:32Speaker 10: way to stride on and stride forward, that I call
- 5:45:35Speaker 10: their hobbling. Thereby they become a hindrance to all who
- 5:45:39Speaker 10: are in haste, And many of them go forward and
- 5:45:42Speaker 10: look backwards thereby with stiffened necks. Those who are like
- 5:45:47Speaker 10: to run up against foot and eye shall not lie
- 5:45:51Speaker 10: nor give the lie to each other. But there is
- 5:45:54Speaker 10: much lying among small people. Some of them will, but
- 5:45:59Speaker 10: most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine,
- 5:46:02Speaker 10: but most of them are bad Actors. There are actors
- 5:46:07Speaker 10: without knowing it amongst them, and actors without intending it.
- 5:46:11Speaker 10: The genuine ones are always rare, especially the genuine actors.
- 5:46:17Speaker 6: Of man.
- 5:46:17Speaker 10: There is little here. Therefore, do their women masculinize themselves.
- 5:46:23Speaker 10: For only he who is man enough will save the
- 5:46:27Speaker 10: woman in woman. And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them,
- 5:46:33Speaker 10: that even those who command feign the virtues of those
- 5:46:36Speaker 10: who serve. I serve thou servest, We serve so chantest
- 5:46:41Speaker 10: here even the hypocrisy of the rulers. And alas if
- 5:46:45Speaker 10: the first lord be only the first servant, ah, even
- 5:46:51Speaker 10: upon their hypocrisy, did mine eyes curiosity alight? And well
- 5:46:55Speaker 10: did I divine all their fly happiness and their buzzing
- 5:46:58Speaker 10: around sunny window panes? So much kindness, so much weakness?
- 5:47:03Speaker 10: Do I see? So much justice and pity, so much weakness.
- 5:47:09Speaker 10: Round fair and considerate are they to one another, as
- 5:47:12Speaker 10: grains of sand are round, fair and considerate to grains
- 5:47:16Speaker 10: of sand. Modestly to embrace small happiness that do they
- 5:47:22Speaker 10: call submission, And at the same time they peer modestly
- 5:47:27Speaker 10: after a new small happiness In their hearts. They want
- 5:47:31Speaker 10: simply one thing, most of all, that no one hurt them.
- 5:47:36Speaker 10: Thus do they anticipate every one's wishes and do well
- 5:47:39Speaker 10: unto every one, That, however, is cowardice, though it be
- 5:47:44Speaker 10: called virtue. And when they chance to speak harshly those
- 5:47:49Speaker 10: small people, then do I hear therein only their hoarseness,
- 5:47:53Speaker 10: every draft of air maketh them hoarse shrewd. Indeed are
- 5:47:58Speaker 10: they their virtues have shrewd fingers, but they lack fists.
- 5:48:04Speaker 10: Their fingers do not know how to creep behind fists. Virtue,
- 5:48:09Speaker 10: for them is what makes modest and tame Therewith have
- 5:48:14Speaker 10: they made the wolf a dog, and man himself man's
- 5:48:18Speaker 10: best domestic animal. We set our chair in the midst,
- 5:48:23Speaker 10: so sayth their smirking unto me, and as far from
- 5:48:27Speaker 10: dying gladiators as from satisfied swine. That, however, is mediocrity,
- 5:48:34Speaker 10: though it be called moderation. Three. I passed through this
- 5:48:40Speaker 10: people and let fall many words. But they know neither
- 5:48:44Speaker 10: how to take nor how to retain them. They wonder
- 5:48:48Speaker 10: why I came not to revile venery and vice, and
- 5:48:52Speaker 10: verily I came not to warn against pickpockets. Either. They
- 5:48:57Speaker 10: wonder why I am not ready to abet and wet
- 5:49:00Speaker 10: their wisdom, as if they had not yet enough of wiseacres,
- 5:49:06Speaker 10: whose voices great on mine ear like slate pencils. And
- 5:49:11Speaker 10: when I call out, curse all the cowardly devils in
- 5:49:15Speaker 10: you that would fain whimper and fold the hands under door,
- 5:49:20Speaker 10: then do they shout Zarathustra is godless. And especially do
- 5:49:25Speaker 10: their teachers of submission shout this. But precisely in their
- 5:49:28Speaker 10: ears do I love to cry? Yea, I am Zarathustra,
- 5:49:32Speaker 10: the godless, Those teachers of submission, whether there is aught puny,
- 5:49:39Speaker 10: or sickly or scabby there do they creep like lice.
- 5:49:43Speaker 10: And only my disgust preventeth me from cracking them. Well,
- 5:49:49Speaker 10: this is my sermon for their ears. I am Zarathustra,
- 5:49:52Speaker 10: the godless, who says, who is more godless than I?
- 5:49:57Speaker 10: That I may enjoy his teaching? I am Zarathustra, the godless.
- 5:50:02Speaker 10: Where do I find mine equal? And all those are
- 5:50:05Speaker 10: mine equals? Who give unto themselves their will and divest
- 5:50:09Speaker 10: themselves of all submission? I am Zarathustra, the Godless. I
- 5:50:15Speaker 10: cook every chance in my pot, and only when it
- 5:50:18Speaker 10: has been quite cooked do I welcome it as my food.
- 5:50:23Speaker 10: And verily many a chance came imperiously unto me. But
- 5:50:27Speaker 10: still more imperiously did my will speak unto it? Then
- 5:50:31Speaker 10: did it lie imploringly upon its knees, imploring that it
- 5:50:36Speaker 10: might find home and heart with me, and saying flatteringly,
- 5:50:41Speaker 10: see O Zarathustra, how friend only cometh unto friend? But
- 5:50:46Speaker 10: why talk I when no one hath mine ears? And
- 5:50:50Speaker 10: so will I shout it out unto all the winds.
- 5:50:55Speaker 10: Ye ever becomes smaller, Ye small people, He crumble away, ye,
- 5:50:59Speaker 10: comfortable ones. He will yet perish by you many small virtues,
- 5:51:05Speaker 10: by you many small emissions, and by you many small submissions.
- 5:51:11Speaker 10: Too tender, too yielding, So is your soil. But for
- 5:51:15Speaker 10: a tree to become great, it seeketh to twine hard
- 5:51:18Speaker 10: roots around hard rocks. Also what you omit weaveth at
- 5:51:24Speaker 10: the web of all the human future. Even your naught
- 5:51:28Speaker 10: is a cobweb and a spider that liveth on the
- 5:51:31Speaker 10: blood of the future. And when ye take, then it
- 5:51:36Speaker 10: is like stealing. He is small, virtuous ones. But even
- 5:51:40Speaker 10: among knaves honors says that one shall only steal when
- 5:51:44Speaker 10: one cannot rob it giveth itself. That is also a
- 5:51:49Speaker 10: doctrine of submission. But I say unto you, he, comfortable ones,
- 5:51:55Speaker 10: that it taketh to itself, and will ever take more
- 5:51:59Speaker 10: and more from you. Ah that ye would renounce all
- 5:52:04Speaker 10: half willing, and would decide for idleness as ye decide
- 5:52:07Speaker 10: for action. Ah that ye understood my word. Do ever
- 5:52:12Speaker 10: what ye will, but first be such as can will
- 5:52:18Speaker 10: love ever your neighbor as yourselves. But first be such
- 5:52:21Speaker 10: as love themselves, such as love with great love, such
- 5:52:26Speaker 10: as love with great contempt. Thus speaketh Sarah Sistra, the godless.
- 5:52:33Speaker 10: But why talk I where no one hath mine ears?
- 5:52:36Speaker 10: It is still an hour too early for me? Here
- 5:52:40Speaker 10: mine own forerunner. I am among this people, mine own
- 5:52:43Speaker 10: cockrow in dark lanes. But there our cometh, and there
- 5:52:49Speaker 10: cometh also mine. Hourly do they become smaller, poorer, unfruitfuller,
- 5:52:55Speaker 10: poor herbs, poor earth? And soon shall they stand before
- 5:53:01Speaker 10: me like dry grass and prairie, and verily weary of themselves,
- 5:53:06Speaker 10: and panting for fire more than for water, Oh, blessed
- 5:53:12Speaker 10: hour of the lightning, O mystery before noontide? Running fires?
- 5:53:17Speaker 10: Will I one day make of them and heralds with
- 5:53:19Speaker 10: flaming tongues? Harald? Shall they one day with flaming tongues?
- 5:53:26Speaker 10: It cometh, it is nigh the great Noontide. Thus spake
- 5:53:32Speaker 10: Sarah Sustra. End of Part forty nine.
- 5:53:42Speaker 7: Part three, Chapter fifty. On the islive mount winter, A
- 5:53:49Speaker 7: bad guest sitteth with me at home. Blue are my hands,
- 5:53:53Speaker 7: with his friendly hand shaking. I honor him, that bad guess,
- 5:53:57Speaker 7: but gladly leave him alone. Gladly do I run away
- 5:54:01Speaker 7: from him. And when one runeth well, then one escapeth
- 5:54:04Speaker 7: him with warm feet and warm thoughts. Do I run,
- 5:54:08Speaker 7: where the wind is calm, to the sunny corner of
- 5:54:11Speaker 7: mine olive mount. There do I laugh at my stern guest,
- 5:54:15Speaker 7: and am still fond of him, because he cleareth my
- 5:54:18Speaker 7: house of flies, and quieteth many noises, For he suffereth
- 5:54:23Speaker 7: if not a caat weaneth to buzz, or even two
- 5:54:26Speaker 7: of them. Also the lanes maketh he lonesome, so that
- 5:54:30Speaker 7: the midnight is afraid there is night. A hard guest
- 5:54:34Speaker 7: is he. But I honor him, and do not worship
- 5:54:37Speaker 7: like the tenderlings. The pot bellied fire idle better even
- 5:54:42Speaker 7: a little teeth chattering than idle ateration. So willeth my nature,
- 5:54:47Speaker 7: And especially have I a grudge against all ardents. Steaming
- 5:54:51Speaker 7: steamy fire idols him whom I love. I love better
- 5:54:56Speaker 7: in winter than in summer. Better do I now mock
- 5:54:59Speaker 7: and on enemies, and more heartily when winter sitteth in
- 5:55:03Speaker 7: my house, heartily, verily, even when I creep into bed,
- 5:55:10Speaker 7: there still laugheth and wantoneth in my hidden happiness, even
- 5:55:16Speaker 7: my deceptive dream laying laugheth I a creeper. Never in
- 5:55:22Speaker 7: my life did I creep before the powerful. And if
- 5:55:25Speaker 7: I ever lied, then I lie out of love. Therefore
- 5:55:29Speaker 7: I am glad even in my winter bed. A poor
- 5:55:34Speaker 7: bed maketh me more than a rich one, for I
- 5:55:36Speaker 7: am jealous of my poverty, and in winter she is
- 5:55:40Speaker 7: most faithful unto me. With a wickedness? Do I begin
- 5:55:44Speaker 7: every day I mock at the winter with a cold bath.
- 5:55:48Speaker 7: On that account, grumbleth my stern housemate. Also do I
- 5:55:53Speaker 7: like to tickle him with a wax taper that he
- 5:55:56Speaker 7: may finally let the heavens emerge from the ashy gray twilight?
- 5:56:01Speaker 7: For especially wicked am I in the morning, at an
- 5:56:04Speaker 7: early hour, when the pale rattleth, and the well and
- 5:56:08Speaker 7: horses neigh warmly in gray lanes impatiently? Do I then
- 5:56:13Speaker 7: wait that clear sky may finally dawn for me? The
- 5:56:17Speaker 7: snow bearded winter sky, the hoary one, the white head,
- 5:56:21Speaker 7: the winter sky, the silent winter sky, which often stifleth
- 5:56:26Speaker 7: even the sun. Do I perhaps learn from it, the
- 5:56:31Speaker 7: long clear silence? Or do it learn from me? Or
- 5:56:35Speaker 7: hath each of us devised it himself? Of all good things?
- 5:56:40Speaker 7: The origin is a thousandfold all good roguis things spring
- 5:56:46Speaker 7: unto existence for joy, how could they always do? For once?
- 5:56:51Speaker 7: Only a good roguish thing is also the long silence,
- 5:56:57Speaker 7: And to look like the winter sky out of a clear,
- 5:57:01Speaker 7: round eyed countenance, like it to stifle one's son and
- 5:57:07Speaker 7: one's inflexible solar will. Verily, this art and this winter roguedeness,
- 5:57:12Speaker 7: I have learnt well, my best loved wickedness and art
- 5:57:18Speaker 7: is it that is my silence, hath learned not to
- 5:57:22Speaker 7: betray itself by silence clattering with diction and dice. I
- 5:57:27Speaker 7: outwit the solemn assistance all those stern watchers. Shall my
- 5:57:32Speaker 7: will and purpose elude that no one might see down
- 5:57:37Speaker 7: into my depth and into mine ultimate will? For that
- 5:57:40Speaker 7: purpose did I devise the long, clear silence. Mady a
- 5:57:45Speaker 7: shrewd one. Did I find he veiled his countenance and
- 5:57:48Speaker 7: made his water muddy, that no one might see there
- 5:57:52Speaker 7: through and there under. But precisely unto him came the
- 5:57:56Speaker 7: shrewder distrusters and nutcrackers. Precisely from hint did they fish
- 5:58:01Speaker 7: the best concealed fish, But the clear, the honest, the transparent.
- 5:58:08Speaker 7: These are for me the wisest silent ones in them,
- 5:58:12Speaker 7: so profound is the depth that even the clearest water
- 5:58:17Speaker 7: doth not portray it. Thou snow bearded, silent winter sky,
- 5:58:23Speaker 7: Thou round eyed white head above me. Oh, thou heavenly
- 5:58:27Speaker 7: simile of my soul in its wantonness. And must I
- 5:58:32Speaker 7: not conceal myself like one who hath swallowed gold, lest
- 5:58:35Speaker 7: my soul should be ripped up? Must I not wear
- 5:58:39Speaker 7: stilts that they may overlook my long legs. All those
- 5:58:43Speaker 7: enviers and injurers around me, those dingy, fire warmed, used up,
- 5:58:49Speaker 7: green tinted, ill natured shoals, How could their envy endure
- 5:58:54Speaker 7: my happiness?
- 5:58:57Speaker 6: Thus?
- 5:58:57Speaker 7: Do I show them only the ice and windinter of
- 5:59:00Speaker 7: my peaks, and not that my mountain windeth all the
- 5:59:05Speaker 7: solar girdles around it. They hear only the whistling of
- 5:59:09Speaker 7: my winter storms, and know not that I also travel
- 5:59:13Speaker 7: under warm seas like longing, heavy hot south winds. They
- 5:59:19Speaker 7: commiserate also my accidents and chances. But my word saith
- 5:59:24Speaker 7: suffer the chance to come unto me innocent is it
- 5:59:28Speaker 7: as a little child? How could they endure my happiness
- 5:59:33Speaker 7: if I did not put around it accidents and winter privations,
- 5:59:37Speaker 7: and bare skin caps and enmantling snowflakes. If I did
- 5:59:42Speaker 7: not myself commiserate their pity, the pity of those enviers
- 5:59:46Speaker 7: and injurers, if I did not myself sigh before them
- 5:59:51Speaker 7: and chatter with cold and patiently let myself be swathed
- 5:59:56Speaker 7: in their pity. This is the wise wack will and
- 6:00:01Speaker 7: good will of my soul. That it concealeth not its
- 6:00:05Speaker 7: winters and glacial storms, It concealeth not its chill banes.
- 6:00:10Speaker 7: Either to one man, lonesomeness is the flight of the
- 6:00:15Speaker 7: sick one to another. It is the flight from the
- 6:00:19Speaker 7: sick ones. Let them hear me chattering and sighing with
- 6:00:23Speaker 7: winter cold, all those poor squinting knaves around me, with
- 6:00:29Speaker 7: such sighing and chattering, do I flee from their heated rooms?
- 6:00:33Speaker 7: Let them sympathize with me and sigh with me on
- 6:00:36Speaker 7: account of my chilblains quote at the ice of knowledge,
- 6:00:41Speaker 7: will he yet freeze to death? Unquote? So they mourn? Meanwhile,
- 6:00:48Speaker 7: do I run with warm feet hither and thither on
- 6:00:52Speaker 7: mine olive mount, in the sunny corner of my olive mount,
- 6:00:56Speaker 7: Do I sing and mock at all pity, thus saying
- 6:01:02Speaker 7: Zarathustra and of Part three, Chapter fifty Part three, Chapter
- 6:01:14Speaker 7: fifty one. On passing by thus slowly wandering through many
- 6:01:22Speaker 7: cities and drivers cities, did Zarathustra return by round about
- 6:01:26Speaker 7: roads to his mountains and his cave. And behold thereby
- 6:01:30Speaker 7: he came he unawares also to the gate of the
- 6:01:33Speaker 7: great city. Here, however, a roaming fool with extended hands
- 6:01:39Speaker 7: sprang toward him and stood in his way. It was
- 6:01:42Speaker 7: the same fool whom the people called the Ape of Zarathustra,
- 6:01:47Speaker 7: for he had learned from him something of the expression
- 6:01:50Speaker 7: and modulation of language, and perhaps liked to borrow from
- 6:01:53Speaker 7: the store of wisdom. And the fool talked thus to Zarathustra, Oh, Zarathustra,
- 6:02:00Speaker 7: here is the great city. Here thou hast nothing to seek,
- 6:02:04Speaker 7: in everything to lose. Why wouldst thou wide through this mire,
- 6:02:08Speaker 7: have pity on thy foot? Spit rather on the gate
- 6:02:11Speaker 7: of the city, and turn back. Here is the hell
- 6:02:15Speaker 7: for anchorite's thoughts. Here are great thoughts, seethed, alive and
- 6:02:20Speaker 7: boiled small. Here do all great sentiments decay. Here may
- 6:02:25Speaker 7: only rattle bone, sensations rattle Spellest thou not already the
- 6:02:30Speaker 7: shambles and cookshops of the spirit. Steameth not this city
- 6:02:34Speaker 7: with the fumes of slaughtered spirit. Seest thou not souls
- 6:02:40Speaker 7: hanging like limp dirty rags, And they make newspapers also
- 6:02:43Speaker 7: out of these rags. Hearest thou not how spirit hath
- 6:02:49Speaker 7: here become a verbal game, loathsome verbal swill, dofit, vomit forth,
- 6:02:54Speaker 7: and they make newspapers out of this verbal swill. They
- 6:02:58Speaker 7: hound one another, and know not whither. They inflame one another,
- 6:03:02Speaker 7: and know not why they tinkle with their pinchbeck, they
- 6:03:06Speaker 7: jingle with their gold. They are cold and seek warmth
- 6:03:10Speaker 7: from distilled waters. They are inflamed, and seek coolness from
- 6:03:15Speaker 7: frozen spirits. They are all sick and sore through public opinion.
- 6:03:20Speaker 7: All lusts and vices are here at home. But here
- 6:03:24Speaker 7: there are also the virtuous. There is much appointable, appointed virtue,
- 6:03:30Speaker 7: much appointable virtue, with scribe fingers and hardly sitting flesh
- 6:03:34Speaker 7: and waiting flesh blessed with small breasts, stars and padded
- 6:03:39Speaker 7: haunchless daughters. There is here also much piety and much
- 6:03:44Speaker 7: faithful spittle licking and spittle backing. Before the God of
- 6:03:48Speaker 7: Hosts from on high drippeth the star and the gracious spittle.
- 6:03:55Speaker 7: For the high longeth every starlus bosom. The moon hath
- 6:04:00Speaker 7: its court, and the court hath its moon calves unto
- 6:04:03Speaker 7: all however that cometh from the court. Do the medicant
- 6:04:08Speaker 7: people pray and all appointable mendicant virtues. I serve thou
- 6:04:14Speaker 7: servest we serve. So prayeth all appointable virtue to the Prince.
- 6:04:19Speaker 7: That the merited star may at last stick on the
- 6:04:22Speaker 7: slender breast. But the moon still resolveth around all that
- 6:04:26Speaker 7: is earthly. So resolveth also the Prince around what is
- 6:04:31Speaker 7: earthliest of all, that, however, is the gold of the shopman.
- 6:04:36Speaker 7: The god of the host of war is not the
- 6:04:39Speaker 7: god of the golden bar. The Prince prospereth, but the
- 6:04:42Speaker 7: shopman disposeeth by all that is luminous and strong and good.
- 6:04:49Speaker 7: In the o Zarathustra. Spit on this city of shopmen,
- 6:04:53Speaker 7: and return back here floweth all blood putridly and tepidly
- 6:04:58Speaker 7: and frothily through all. Split on the great city, which
- 6:05:03Speaker 7: is a great slum, where all the scum frotheest together.
- 6:05:09Speaker 7: Spit on the city of compressed souls and slender breasts
- 6:05:13Speaker 7: of pointed eyes and sticky fingers on the city of
- 6:05:16Speaker 7: the obstrusive, the brazen face, the penn demagogues and tongue demagogue,
- 6:05:21Speaker 7: the overheated, ambitious, where everything maimed, ill, famed, lustful, untrustful,
- 6:05:27Speaker 7: over mellow, sticky, yellow, and seditious, festuous, pernicious. Spit on
- 6:05:32Speaker 7: this great city and turn back.
- 6:05:36Speaker 2: Here.
- 6:05:37Speaker 7: However, did Zarathustra interrupt the foaming fool and shut his mouth?
- 6:05:42Speaker 7: Stop this at once, called out Zarathustra. Long have thy
- 6:05:46Speaker 7: speech and thy species disgusted me? Why didst thou live
- 6:05:50Speaker 7: so long by the swamp that thou hadst to become
- 6:05:54Speaker 7: a frog? And a toad floweth there not a tainted,
- 6:05:58Speaker 7: frothy swamp, blood and thine own veins, when thou hast
- 6:06:01Speaker 7: learned to croak and revile? Why weenest thou not into
- 6:06:06Speaker 7: the forest? Or why didst thou not till the ground?
- 6:06:10Speaker 7: Is the sea not full of green islands? I despise
- 6:06:14Speaker 7: thy contempt? And when thou warnedest me, why didt thou
- 6:06:17Speaker 7: not warn thyself? Out of love? Alone? Shall my contempt
- 6:06:21Speaker 7: in my