Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Friedrich Nietzscheskeleton ogled at me.realer than your awakeness!Rather would I be a day-labourer in the nether-world, Unfruitful are ye: therefore do ye lack belief. But heand among the shades of the by-gone!—Fatter and fuller who had to create, had always his presaging dreams andthan ye, are forsooth the nether-worldlings!astral premonitions—and believed in believing!—This, yea this, is bitterness to my bowels, that I can Half-open doors are ye, at which grave-diggers wait.neither endure you naked nor clothed, ye present-day And this is YOUR reality: “Everything deserveth to perish.”men!All that is unhomelike in the future, and whatever Alas, how ye stand there before me, ye unfruitful ones;maketh strayed birds shiver, is verily more homelike and how lean your ribs! And many of you surely have hadfamiliar than your “reality.”knowledge thereof.For thus speak ye: “Real are we wholly, and without Many a one hath said: “There hath surely a God filchedfaith and superstition”: thus do ye plume yourselves— something from me secretly whilst I slept? Verily, enoughalas! even without plumes!to make a girl for himself therefrom!Indeed, how would ye be ABLE to believe, ye diverscolouredones!—ye who are pictures of all that hath ever many a present-day man.“Amazing is the poverty of my ribs!” thus hath spokenbeen believed!Yea, ye are laughable unto me, ye present-day men!Perambulating refutations are ye, of belief itself, and a And especially when ye marvel at yourselves!dislocation of all thought. untrust worthy ones: thus do I And woe unto me if I could not laugh at your marvelling,and had to swallow all that is repugnant in yourcall you, ye real ones!All periods prate against one another in your spirits; platters!and the dreams and pratings of all periods were even As it is, however, I will make lighter of you, since I115