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30 - Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche · The Philosophy Insights Collection

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  Part two, Chapter thirty, The famous wise Ones, The people have ye
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  served in the people's superstition, not the truth, all, ye, famous
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  wise ones. And just on that account did they pay you reverence? And
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  on that account also did they tolerate your unbelief because it was a pleasantry and
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  a bypath for the people. Thus doth the master give free scope to his
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  slaves, and even enjoyeth their presumptuousness. But he who is hated by the
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  people as the wolf by the dogs, is the free spirit, the enemy
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  of fetters, the non adore dweller in the woods, to hunt him out
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  of his lair that was always called sense of right by the people on him?
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  Did they still hound their sharpest tooth dogs, For there the truth is
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  where the people are. Woe woe to the seeking ones. Thus has it
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  echoed through all time? Your people, would ye justify in their reverence that
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  called ye will to truth? Ye famous wise ones, And your heart hath
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  always said to itself, from the people have I come from? Thence came
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  to me also the voice of God. Stiff necked and artful like the ass
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  have ye always been as the advocates of the people, and many a powerful
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  one who wanted to run well with the people, hath harnessed in front of
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  his horses, a donkey, a famous wise man, And now ye famous
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  wise ones, I would have you finally throw off entirely the skin of the
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  lion, the skin of the beast of prey, the speckled skin, and
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  the disheveled locks of the investigator, the searcher, and the conqueror. Ah.
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  For me to learn to believe in your conscientiousness, ye would first have
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  to break your venerating will conscientious. So call I him who goeth into god
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  forsaken wildernesses, and hath broken his venerating heart in the yellow sands, and
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  burnt by the sun. He doubtless pereth thirstily at the isles, rich in
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  fountains, where life reposeth under shady trees. But his thirst doth not persuade
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  him to become like those comfortable ones. For where there are oases, there
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  are also idols, hungry, fierce, lonesome, God forsaken, So doth
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  the lion will wish itself free from the happiness of slaves, redeemed from deities
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  and adorations, fearless and fear inspiring, grand and lonesome. So is the
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  will of the conscientious. In the wilderness have ever dwelt the conscientious, the
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  free spirits as lords of the wilderness. But in the cities dwell the well
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  foddered, famous wise ones, the drought beasts. For always do they draw
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  as asses the people's carts, Not that I on that account upbraid them.
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  But serving ones do they remain and harnessed ones, even though they glitter in
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  golden harness. And often have they been good servants and worthy of their hire.
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  For thus saith virtue. If thou must be a servant, seek him
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  unto whom thy service is most useful. The spirit and virtue of thy master
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  shall advance by thou being his servant. Thus wilt thou thy self advance with
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  his spirit and virtue. And verily, ye, famous wise ones, ye
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  servants of the people, Ye yourselves have advanced with the people's spirit and virtue,
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  And the people by you, to your honor, do I say it,
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  but the people ye remain for me, even with your virtues, the
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  people with purblind eyes, the people who know not what spirit is. Spirit
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  is life, which itself cutteth into life by its own torture. Doth it
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  increase its own knowledge. Did ye know that before and the spirit's happiness is
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  this to be anointed and consecrated with tears as a sacrificial victim. Did ye
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  know that before and the blindness of the blind one, and his seeking and
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  groping shall yet testify to the power of the sun into which he hath gazed.
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  Did ye know that before and with mountain shall the discerning one learn to
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  build? It is a small thing for the spirit to remove mountains. Did
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  ye know that before ye know only the sparks of the Spirit, But ye
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  do not see the anvil which it is, and the cruelty of its hammer.
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  Verily, ye know not the Spirit's pride. But still less could ye
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  endure the spirit's humility, should it ever want to speak? And never yet
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  could ye cast your spirit into a pit of snow? Ye are not hot
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  enough for that. Thus are ye unaware also of the delight of its coldness.
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  In all respects, however, ye make too familiar with the Spirit,
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  And out of wisdom have ye often made an almshouse in a hospital for bad
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  poets? Ye are not eagles. Thus have ye never experienced the happiness of
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  the alarm of the Spirit? And he who is not a bird, should
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  not camp above abysses. Ye seem to me lukewarm ones, but coldly floweth
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  all deep knowledge. Ice cold are the innermost wells of the spirit, or
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  a freshmen to hot hands and handlers respectable? Do ye there stand and stiff
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  and with straight backs, ye famous wise ones, No strong wind or will
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  impelleth you. Have ye ne'er seen a sail crossing the sea, rounded and
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  inflated, and trembling with the violence of the wind. Like the sail trembling
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  with the violence of the spirit. Doth my wisdom cross the sea, my
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  wild wisdom. But ye servants of the people, ye famous wise ones,
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  how could ye go with me? Thus spake Zarathustra. End of Chapter thirty