Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Oxford World’s Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

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Sensuality: for all hair-shirted body-despisers their thorn and stake, and cursed as ‘world’ by all believers in a world behind: for it mocks and makes fools of all teachers of confusion and delusion.*

Sensuality: for the rabble the slow fire over which they are roasted; for all worm-eaten wood, for all stinking rags the ever-ready ruttingand stewing-oven.

Sensuality: for free hearts innocent and free, the garden-happiness of the earth, all futures’ exuberance of thanks to the now.

Sensuality: only for the wilted a sweetish poison, but for the lion-willed the great heart-strengthener, and the reverently preserved wine of wines.

Sensuality: the great allegory-happiness for higher happiness and highest hope. For to many a one is marriage promised and more than marriage–

– to many a one who is stranger to himself than man is to woman: and who has fully grasped how strange to each other man and woman are!

Sensuality:– yet I want to have fences around my thoughts and also even around my words, lest swine and swooners break into my gardens!–*

Lust to rule: the scalding scourge of the hardest among the hard-hearted; the cruel torture that reserves itself for the very cruellest; the dismal flame of living pyres.

Lust to rule: the wicked gadfly inflicted upon the vainest peoples; the mocker of all uncertain virtue, who rides upon every steed and every pride.

Lust to rule: the earthquake that breaks and breaks open all that is rotten and hollow; the rolling growling punishing shatterer of whited sepulchres;* the lightning question-mark beside premature answers.

Lust to rule: in the face of whose look the human being crawls and cowers and slaves away and becomes lower than snake and swine– until the great despising at last cries out from it–

Lust to rule: the terrible teacher of the great despising who preaches in the face of cities and kingdoms, ‘away with you!’– until it cries out of them themselves, ‘away with me!’

Lust to rule: which is alluring even to the pure and lonely and climbs up into self-sufficient heights, glowing like a love that alluringly paints purple blissfulness on earthen-Heavens.

Lust to rule: but who would call it lust when what is high longs downward for power! Verily, there is nothing sick or lustful in such longing and condescension!

That the lonely heights might not remain eternally lonely and sufficient unto themselves; that the mountain might come down to the valley and the winds of the heights to the lowlands:–

Oh who could find the right baptism-and virtue-names for such a yearning! ‘Bestowing virtue’– thus did Zarathustra once name the unnameable.

And at that time it happened also– and verily, it happened for the first time!– that his word hallowed selfishness, the wholesome, healthy selfishness that wells up from a powerful soul:–

– from a powerful soul, to which the lofty body belongs, one that is beautiful, victorious, restorative, around which each and every thing becomes a mirror:

– the supple and persuasive body, the dancer, whose allegory and epitome is the self-enjoying soul. Such bodies’ and souls’ self-enjoyment calls itself: ‘virtue.’

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