Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Friedrich Nietzscheimpelleth you and maketh you ardent?your ruling Will!Will for the thinkableness of all being: thus do I call Onward the river now carrieth your boat: it must carryyour will!it. A small matter if the rough wave foameth and angrilyAll being would ye make thinkable: for ye doubt with resisteth its keel!good reason whether it be already thinkable.It is not the river that is your danger and the end ofBut it shall accommodate and bend itself to you! So your good and evil, ye wisest ones: but that Will itself,willeth your will. Smooth shall it become and subject to the Will to Power—the unexhausted, procreating lifewill.the spirit, as its mirror and reflection.That is your entire will, ye wisest ones, as a Will to But that ye may understand my gospel of good andPower; and even when ye speak of good and evil, and of evil, for that purpose will I tell you my gospel of life, andestimates of value.of the nature of all living things.Ye would still create a world before which ye can bow The living thing did I follow; I walked in the broadestthe knee: such is your ultimate hope and ecstasy. and narrowest paths to learn its nature.The ignorant, to be sure, the people—they are like a With a hundred-faced mirror did I catch its glance whenriver on which a boat floateth along: and in the boat sit its mouth was shut, so that its eye might speak unto me.the estimates of value, solemn and disguised.And its eye spake unto me.Your will and your valuations have ye put on the river But wherever I found living things, there heard I alsoof becoming; it betrayeth unto me an old Will to Power, the language of obedience. All living things are obeyingwhat is believed by the people as good and evil. things.It was ye, ye wisest ones, who put such guests in this And this heard I secondly: Whatever cannot obey itself,is commanded. Such is the nature of living boat, and gave them pomp and proud names—ye andthings.109