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75 - Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche · Logic Library

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  Part four, Chapter seventy five. Science. Thus sang the magician, and
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  all who were present went like birds unawares into the net of his artful and
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  melancholy voluptuousness. Only the spiritually conscientious one had not been caught. He at
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  once snatched the heart from the magician and called out, air let in good,
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  air let in Zarathustra. Thou makest this cave sultry and poisonous, thou
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  bad, old magician. Thou seducest, thou false one, thou subtle one
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  to unknown desires and deserts, And alas that such as thou should talk and
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  make ado about the truth. Alas to all free spirits who are not on
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  their guard against such magicians, it is all over with their freedom. Thou
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  teachest and tempest back into prison. Thou old melancholy devil, out of thy
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  lament soundeth a llurement. Thou resemblest those who, with their praise of chastity,
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  secretly invite to voluptuousness. Thus spake the conscientious one. The old magician,
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  however, looked about him, enjoying his triumph, and on that account
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  put up with the annoyance which the conscientious one caused him be still, said
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  he, with modest voice. Good songs want to re echo. Well.
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  After good songs, one should be long silent. Thus do all those present,
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  the higher men. Thou, however, hast perhaps understood but little of
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  my song in thee. There is little of the magic spirit. Thou praisest
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  me, replied the conscientious one, and that thou separatest me from thyself very
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  well. But ye others, what do I see? Ye still sit there,
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  all of you with lusting eyes, Ye free spirits. Whither hath your
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  freedom gone? Ye almost seem to me to resemble those who have long looked
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  at bad girls dancing naked. Your souls themselves dance in you, ye,
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  higher men. There must be more of that which the magician calleth his evil
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  spirit of magic and deceit. We must indeed be different, And verily we
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  spake in thought long enough together ere Zarathustra came home to his cave for me
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  not to be unaware that we are different. We seek different things even here
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  aloft ye, and I for I seek more security on that account have I
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  come to Zarathustra. For he is still the most steadfast tower, and will
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  to day when everything totterereth when all the earth quaketh Ye. However, when
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  I see what eyes ye make, it almost seemeth to me that ye seek
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  more insecurity, more horror, more danger, more earthquake. Ye long,
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  it almost seemeth so to me forgive my presumption. Ye hire men, Ye
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  long for the worst and dangerousest life, which frighteneth me most, for the
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  life of wild beasts, for forests, caves, steep mountains, and labyrinthine
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  gorges. And it is not those who lead out of danger that please you
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  best, but those who lead you away from all paths, the misleaders.
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  But if such longing an ye be actual, it seemeth to me nevertheless to
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  be impossible. For fear, that is man's original and fundamental feeling. Through
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  fear, everything is explained, original sin, and original virtue. Through fear,
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  there grew also my virtue, that is to say, science, for
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  fear of wild animals that hath been longest fostered than man, inclusive of the
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  animal which he concealeth and feareth in himself. Zarathustra calleth it the beast inside.
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  Such prolonged ancient fear at last becomes subtle spiritual and intellectual. At present
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  methinketh it is called science. Thus spake the conscientious one. But Zarathustra,
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  who had just come back into the cave and had heard and divined this last
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  discourse, threw a handful of roses to the conscientious one and laughed on account
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  of his truths. Why he exclaimed, what did I hear just now?
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  Verily, it seemeth to me thou art a fool? Or else I myself
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  am one, And quietly and quickly will I put thy truth upside down?
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  For fear is an exception with us. Courage, however, an adventure and
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  delight, and the uncertain and the unattempted courage seemeth to me the entire primitive
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  history of man. The wildest and most courageous animals hath he envied and robbed
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  of all their virtues. Thus only did he become man. This courage,
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  at last becomes subtle, spiritual, and intellectual. This human courage, with
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  eagle's pinions and serpent's wisdom, this, it seemeth to me, is called
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  at present. Zarathustra cried, all of them there, assembled as if with
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  one voice, and burst out at the same time into a great laughter there
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  arose, however, from them, as it were a heavy cloud. Even
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  the magician laughed and said, wisely, well, it is gone mine,
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  evil spirit. And did I not myself warn you against it when I said
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  that it was a deceiver, a lying and deceiving spirit, especially when it
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  showeth itself naked? But what can I do with regard to its tricks?
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  Have I created it? And the world? Well, let us be good
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  again and of good cheer. And although Zarathustra looketh with evil eye, just
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  see him he disliketh me. Ere night cometh, will he again learn to
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  love and laud me? He cannot live long without committing such follies. He
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  loveth his enemies this art knoweth he better than any one I have seen.
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  But he taketh revenge for it on his friends. Thus spaked the old magician,
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  and the hireman applauded him, so that Zarathustra went round and mischievously and
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  lovingly shook hands with his friends, like one who hath to make amends and
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  apologize to everyone for something. When, however, he had thereby come to
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  the door of his cave, lo then had he again a longing for the
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  good air outside and for his animals, and wished to steal out end of
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  Part four, Chapter seventy five