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03 - Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche · Logic Library

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  Part one, Chapter three, Backworldsman, Once on a time, Zarathustra also
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  cast his fancy beyond man, like all backworldsmen, the work of a suffering
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  and tortured god. Did the world then seem to me the dream and diction
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  of a god? Did the world then seem to me? Colored vapors before
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  the eyes of a divinely dissatisfied one, good and evil and joy and woe?
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  And I in thou colored vapors? Did they seem to me? Before
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  creative eyes? The creator wished to look away from himself. Thereupon he created
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  the world intoxicating joy. It is for the sufferer to look away from his
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  suffering and forget himself, intoxicating joy and self forgetting. Did the world once
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  seem to me? This world the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and
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  imperfect image, oxicating joy to its imperfect creator. Thus did the world once
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  seem to me? Thus, once on a time did I also cast my
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  fancy beyond man, like all backworldsmen, beyond man? Forsooth ah ye,
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  brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, Like
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  all the gods, a man was he and only a poor fragment of a
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  man and ego. Out of mine own ashes and glow, it came unto
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  me that phantom. And verily it came not unto me from the beyond.
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  What happened, my brethren, I surpassed myself, the suffering one. I
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  carried mine own ashes to the mountain. A brighter flame I contrived for myself,
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  and lo, thereupon the phantom withdrew from me to me the convalescent.
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  Would it now be suffering and torment to believe in such phantoms? Suffering?
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  Would it now be to me and humiliation? Thus speak I to backworldsman suffering?
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  Was it an impotence that created all backworlds? And the short madness of
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  happiness which only the greatest sufferer experienceth. Weariness which seeketh to get to the
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  ultimate with one leap, with a death leap, a poor, ignorant weariness,
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  unwilling even to will any longer, that created all gods and backworlds.
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  Believe me, my brethren, it was the body which despaired of the body.
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  It groped with the fingers of the infatuated spirit at the ultimate walls.
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  Believe me, my brethren, it was the body, which despaired of the
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  earth. It heard the bowels of existence speaking unto it, and then it
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  sought to get through the ultimate walls with its head, and not with its
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  head, only into the other world. But that other world is well concealed
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  from man, that dehumanized inhuman world, which is a celestial nott And the
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  bowels of existence do not speak unto man except as man Verily, it is
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  difficult to prove all being, and hard to make it speak. Tell me,
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  ye, brethren, is not the strangest of all things best proved?
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  Yeay, This ego, with its contradiction and perplexity, speaketh most uprightly of
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  its being, this creating, willing, evaluing ego, which is the measure
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  and value of things, And this most upright existence, the ego. It
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  speaketh of the body, and still implieth the body, even when it museth
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  and raveth and fluttereth with broken wings. Always more uprightly learneth it to speak
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  the ego, And the more it learneth, the more doth it find titles
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  and honors for the body and in their earth. A new pride taught me
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  mine ego, and that teach I unto men no longer to thrust one's head
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  into the sand of celestial things, but to carry it freely, a terrestrial
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  head, which giveth meaning to the earth. A new will. I teach
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  unto men to choose that path which man hath followed blindly, and to approve
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  of it, and no longer slink aside from it, like the sick and
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  perishing. The sick and perishing. It was they who despised the body and
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  the earth, and invented the heavenly world and the redeeming blood drops. But
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  even those sweet and sad poisons they borrowed from the body and the earth.
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  From their misery, they sought escape, and the stars were too remote for
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  them. Then they sighed, oh, that there were heavenly paths by which
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  to steal into another existence and into happiness. Then they contrived for themselves their
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  bypaths and bloody drafts. Beyond the sphere of their body and this earth.
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  They now fancied themselves transported these ungrateful ones. But to what did they owe
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  the convulsion and rapture of their transport to their body and this earth. Gentle
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  is Zarathustra to the sickly Verily, he is not indulgent at their modes of
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  consolation and ingratitude. May they become convalescents and overcomers, and create higher bodies
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  for themselves. Neither is Zarathusta indignant at a convalescent who looketh tenderly on his
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  delusions, and at midnight stealeth round the grave of his God. But sickness
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  and a sick frame remain even in his tears. Many sickly ones have there
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  always been among those who muse and languish for God violently. They hate the
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  discerning ones and the latest of virtues, which is uprightness backward. They always
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  gaze toward dark ages. Then, indeed were delusion and faith something different.
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  Raving of the reason was likeness to God, and doubt was sin too well.
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  Do I know those god like ones? They insist on being believed in,
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  and that doubt is sin too well? Also do I know what they
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  themselves most believe in? Verily, not in backworlds and redeeming blood drops.
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  But in the body do they also believe most? And their own body is
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  for them the thing in itself. But it is a sickly thing to them,
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  And gladly would they get out of their skin Therefore hearken they to the
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  preachers of death, and themselves preach backworlds. Hearken, rather, my brethren,
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  to the voice of the health body. It is a more upright and
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  pure voice. More uprightly and purely speaketh the healthy body, perfect and square
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  built, and it speaketh of the meaning of the earth. Thus spake Zarathustra.
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  End of Part one, Chapter three,