Latest / Logic Library / 68 - Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
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- 0:00Barred four, Chapter sixty eight, The Voluntary Beggar. When Rathushtra had left
- 0:10the ugliest Man, he was chilled and felt lonesome. For much coldness and
- 0:18lonesomeness came over his spirit, so that even his limbs became older. Thereby
- 0:26well, however, he wandered on and on, up hill and down,
- 0:33at times past green meadows, though also sometimes over wild stony couches, where
- 0:40formerly perhaps an impatient brook had made its bed. Then he turned all at
- 0:46once warmer and hearty again. What hath happened unto me? He asked himself.
- 0:56Something warm and living quickened me. It must be in the neighborhood.
- 1:03Already am I less alone? Unconscious companions and breathing robe around me. Their
- 1:11warm breath toucheth my soul. When, however, he spied about and sought
- 1:19for the comforters of his lonesomeness, Behold they were kind, their standing together
- 1:29on an eminence whose proximity and smell had warmed his heart. The kind,
- 1:36however, seemed to listen eagerly to a speaker, and took no heed of
- 1:42him who approached, When, however, the Tustra was quite nigh unto them,
- 1:51then did he hear plainly let human voice bake in the midst of the
- 1:56kind, and apparently all of them had turned their heads towards the speaker.
- 2:05Then ran Sarathustra up speedily and drove the animals aside, for he feared that
- 2:12some one had here met with harm, which the pity of the kind would
- 2:17hardly be able to relieve. But in this he was deceived. For behold,
- 2:25there sat a man on the ground who seemed to be persuading the animals
- 2:31to have no fear of him, A peaceable man and preacher on the mound,
- 2:38out of whose eyes kindness itself preached. What dost thou seek here?
- 2:47Asked Arthustra, in astonishment, What do I hear seek? Answered he the
- 2:58same that thou seekest, thou mischief maker, that is to say, happiness
- 3:04upon earth. To that end, however, I would fain learn of this
- 3:10kind, for I tell thee that I have already talked half a morning unto
- 3:17them, and just now were they about to give me their answer. Why
- 3:23dost thou disturb them? Except we be converted and become as kind, we
- 3:31shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of heaven. For we ought to
- 3:38learn from them one thing ruminating. And verily, although a man should gain
- 3:45the whole world and yet not learn one thing ruminating, what would it profit
- 3:53him? He would not be rid of his affliction, his great affliction,
- 4:00that, however, is at present called disgussed. Who hath not at present
- 4:05his heart, his mouth, and his eyes full of disgust? Thou also
- 4:12thou also, but behold these kind? Thus spake the speechure on the mount,
- 4:21and turned his own look towards Zarathustra, for hitherto it had rested lovingly
- 4:29on the kind. Then, however, he put on a different expression.
- 4:36Who is this with whom I talk? He exclaimed, frightened, and sprang
- 4:43up from the ground. This is the man without disgust. This is Zarathustra
- 4:49himself, the surmount of the great disgust. This is the eye, This
- 4:56is the mouth, This is the heart of Zarathustra himself. And whilst he
- 5:02thus spoke, he kissed with overflowing eyes the hands of him with whom he
- 5:10spoke, and behaved altogether like one to whom a precious gift and jewel hath
- 5:17fallen and aways from heaven. The kind, however, gazed at it all,
- 5:26and wondered, Speak not of me, thou strange one, thou amiable
- 5:33one, said Datustra, and restrained his affection. Speak to me firstly of
- 5:43thyself, art thou not the voluntary beggar who was cast away great riches,
- 5:50who was ashamed of his riches and of the rich, and fled to the
- 5:56poorest to bestow upon them his abandoned and his heart. But they received him
- 6:02not, but they received me not, said the voluntary beggar. Thou knowest
- 6:11forsooth, So I went at last to the animals and to those kind they
- 6:18learnedst thou interrupted Zathustra. How much harder is it to give properly than to
- 6:28take properly? And that bestowing well is an art, thy last, supplessed
- 6:34master art of kindness, especially nowadays, answered the voluntary beggar. At present,
- 6:45that is to say, when everything low hath become rebellious and exclusive and
- 6:50haughty in its manner, in the manner of the populace, for the hour
- 6:58hath come. Thou knowest it forsooth, for the great evil, long,
- 7:04slow mob, and slave insurrection, it extendeth and extendeth, Nor doubt it
- 7:14bread folk, the lower classes all benebles and pettygiving, and the over rich
- 7:21may be on their guard, whoever, at present grape like bulgy bottles out
- 7:30of all two small necks of such bottles. At present, when willingly breaketh
- 7:35the necks, wanton avidity, bilious envy, careworn revenge, populous pride,
- 7:46all these struck mine eye. It is no longer true that a poor are
- 7:51blessed the kingdom of heaven. However, is with the kind? And why
- 8:01is it not with the rich? As are too struck temptingly? While he
- 8:07came back the kind which sniffed familiarly at the peaceful one, Why thou'st thou
- 8:16tempt me? Answered the other? Thou knowest it thyself better even than I?
- 8:24What was it drove me to the poorest? O zartustra, Was it
- 8:28not my disgust at the richest, at the culprits of riches with cold eyes
- 8:35and rank thoughts, who pick up prophet out of all kinds of rubbish,
- 8:41at this rabble that stinketh to heaven, At this gilded falcified populace, whose
- 8:50fathers were pickpockets or carrying crows or rag pickles, with wise compliant lude and
- 9:00forgetful, for they are, all of them not far different from Hallot's populous
- 9:07avow populous below? What are poor and rich? At present? That distinction
- 9:15did I learn? Then? Did I flee away further and even further until
- 9:22I came to those kind. Thus spake the peaceful one, and puffed himself
- 9:30and perspired with his words, so that the kind wondered. I knew Latushtra,
- 9:37however, kept looking into his face with a smile all the time the
- 9:43man talked so severely, and shook silently his head. Thou doest wildest to
- 9:52thyself, thou preacher on the mound, and thou usest such savior words for
- 10:00such severity. Neither thy mouth nor thine eye have ever been given thee nor
- 10:09methinketh hath thy stomach either, And to at all such rage and hatred and
- 10:16foaming over is repugnant. Thou stomach wanteth softer things. Thou art not a
- 10:26butcher. Rather seemest thou to me a plant eater and a rude man.
- 10:33Perhaps Thou grandest corn. Certainly, however, thou art our worst to fleshly
- 10:41joyous, and thou lovest honey. Thou hast divined me well, answered the
- 10:48voluntary beggar, which light in heart. I love honey. I also grind
- 10:56calm, for I have sought out what taste sweetly and make it pure breath.
- 11:03Also what requireth a long time, a day's work and a month's work
- 11:09for gentle eyelers and sluggers furthest To be sure have those kind carried it?
- 11:20They have device dominating and lying in the sun. They also abstain from all
- 11:26heavy torts, which inflate the heart. Well said Natustra, Thou shouldst also
- 11:35see mine animals, mine eager and my serpent, they alike do not at
- 11:41present exist on earth. Behold, thither leadeth the way to my cave.
- 11:50Be tonight, its guest, and talk to mine animals of the happiness of
- 11:56animals until I come home. For now a cry of distress calleth me hastily
- 12:05away from thee. Also shouldst thou fine new honey with me eyes cold golden
- 12:13comb honey, eat it now, however, take leave at once of their
- 12:20kind, Thou strange one, thou amiable one, thought it be hard for
- 12:28thee, for they are thy warmest friends and perceptors. One accepted, whom
- 12:37I hold still dearer, answered the voluntary beggar, Thou thyself art good o
- 12:43zatustra, and better even than a cow. Away away with thee thou,
- 12:52evil flatterer, cry or tustra mischievously. Why those thou spoil me for such
- 12:58praise and flattery? Honey away away from me, cried he once more,
- 13:09and heaved his stick at a fond beggar, who, however, ran nimbly
- 13:15away. End of Chapter sixty eight