Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Friedrich Nietzschewhat I once said of the “last man”?—sailors for me, brave, patient!With whom lieth the greatest danger to the whole humanfuture? Is it not with the good and just?yourselves up! The sea stormeth: many seek to raise them-Keep yourselves up betimes, my brethren, learn to keepBreak up, break up, I pray you, the good and just!—O selves again by you.my brethren, have ye understood also this word?The sea stormeth: all is in the sea. Well! Cheer up! Yeold seaman-hearts!28.What of fatherland! Thither striveth our helm where ourchildren’s land is! Thitherwards, stormier than the sea,YE FLEE FROM ME? Ye are frightened? Ye tremble at this word? stormeth our great longing!—O my brethren, when I enjoined you to break up thegood, and the tables of the good, then only did I embark29.man on his high seas.And now only cometh unto him the great terror, the “WHY SO HARD!”—said to the diamond one day the charcoal;“are we then not near relatives?”—great outlook, the great sickness, the great nausea, thegreat sea-sickness.Why so soft? O my brethren; thus do I ask you: are yeFalse shores and false securities did the good teach then not—my brethren?you; in the lies of the good were ye born and bred. Why so soft, so submissive and yielding? Why is thereEverything hath been radically contorted and distorted so much negation and abnegation in your hearts? Why isby the good.there so little fate in your looks?But he who discovered the country of “man,” discoveredalso the country of “man’s future.” Now shall ye be can ye one day—conquer withAnd if ye will not be fates and inexorable ones, howme?197