Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Friedrich Nietzschelowing should also laud all that is earthly!But precisely to the hero is beauty the hardest thing ofDark is still his countenance; the shadow of his hand all. Unattainable is beauty by all ardent wills.danceth upon it. O’ershadowed is still the sense of his eye. A little more, a little less: precisely this is much here,His deed itself is still the shadow upon him: his doing it is the most here.obscureth the doer. Not yet hath he overcome his deed. To stand with relaxed muscles and with unharnessedTo be sure, I love in him the shoulders of the ox: but will: that is the hardest for all of you, ye sublime ones!now do I want to see also the eye of the angel.When power becometh gracious and descendeth intoAlso his hero-will hath he still to unlearn: an exalted the visible—I call such condescension, beauty.one shall he be, and not only a sublime one:—the ether And from no one do I want beauty so much as fromitself should raise him, the will-less one!thee, thou powerful one: let thy goodness be thy lastHe hath subdued monsters, he hath solved enigmas. self-conquest.But he should also redeem his monsters and enigmas; All evil do I accredit to thee: therefore do I desire ofinto heavenly children should he transform them. thee the good.As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who thinkbe without jealousy; as yet hath his gushing passion not themselves good because they have crippled paws!become calm in beauty.The virtue of the pillar shalt thou strive after: moreVerily, not in satiety shall his longing cease and disappear,but in beauty! Gracefulness belongeth to the mu-internally harder and more sustaining—the higher it riseth.beautiful doth it ever become, and more graceful—butnificence of the magnanimous.Yea, thou sublime one, one day shalt thou also be beautiful,and hold up the mirror to thine own beauty.His arm across his head: thus should the hero repose;thus should he also surmount his repose.Then will thy soul thrill with divine desires; and there113