Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Thus Spake ZarathustraThe God veileth his beauty: thus hidest thou thy stars. to ascend beyond ourselves to ourselves, and to smileThou speakest not: thus proclaimest thou thy wisdom uncloudedly:—unto me.—Uncloudedly to smile down out of luminous eyes andMute o’er the raging sea hast thou risen for me to-day; out of miles of distance, when under us constraint andthy love and thy modesty make a revelation unto my purpose and guilt steam like rain.raging soul.And wandered I alone, for what did my soul hunger byIn that thou camest unto me beautiful, veiled in thy night and in labyrinthine paths? And climbed I mountains,whom did I ever seek, if not thee, upon moun-beauty, in that thou spakest unto me mutely, obvious inthy wisdom:tains?Oh, how could I fail to divine all the modesty of thy And all my wandering and mountain-climbing: a necessitywas it merely, and a makeshift of the unhandy one:—soul! Before the sun didst thou come unto me—thelonesomest one.to fly only, wanteth mine entire will, to fly into thee!We have been friends from the beginning: to us are And what have I hated more than passing clouds, andgrief, gruesomeness, and ground common; even the sun whatever tainteth thee? And mine own hatred have Iis common to us.even hated, because it tainted thee!We do not speak to each other, because we know too The passing clouds I detest—those stealthy cats ofmuch—: we keep silent to each other, we smile our knowledgeto each other.us—the vast unbounded Yea- and Amen-saying.prey: they take from thee and me what is common toArt thou not the light of my fire? Hast thou not the These mediators and mixers we detest—the passingsister-soul of mine insight?clouds: those half-and-half ones, that have neither learnedTogether did we learn everything; together did we learn to bless nor to curse from the heart.152