Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Thus Spake ZarathustraThou outcast, who hast cast thyself out, thou wilt not LXVIII. THE VOLUNTARY BEGGARlive amongst men and men’s pity? Well then, do like me!Thus wilt thou learn also from me; only the doer learneth. WHEN ZARATHUSTRA HAD left the ugliest man, he was chilledAnd talk first and foremost to mine animals! The proudest and felt lonesome: for much coldness and lonesomenessanimal and the wisest animal—they might well be the came over his spirit, so that even his limbs became colderright counsellors for us both!”—thereby. When, however, he wandered on and on, uphillThus spake Zarathustra and went his way, more thoughtfullyand slowly even than before: for he asked himself sometimes over wild stony couches where formerly per-and down, at times past green meadows, though alsomany things, and hardly knew what to answer.haps an impatient brook had made its bed, then he turned“How poor indeed is man,” thought he in his heart, all at once warmer and heartier again.“how ugly, how wheezy, how full of hidden shame! “What hath happened unto me?” he asked himself,They tell me that man loveth himself. Ah, how great “something warm and living quickeneth me; it must bemust that self-love be! How much contempt is opposed in the neighbourhood.to it!Already am I less alone; unconscious companions andEven this man hath loved himself, as he hath despised brethren rove around me; their warm breath toucheth myhimself,—a great lover methinketh he is, and a great soul.”despiser.When, however, he spied about and sought for the comfortersof his lonesomeness, behold, there were kine thereNo one have I yet found who more thoroughly despisedhimself: even that is elevation. Alas, was this perhaps the standing together on an eminence, whose proximity andhigher man whose cry I heard?smell had warmed his heart. The kine, however, seemedI love the great despisers. Man is something that hath to listen eagerly to a speaker, and took no heed of himto be surpassed.”—240