Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Thus Spake ZarathustraThus do all those present, the higher men. Thou, however,hast perhaps understood but little of my song? In quaketh. Ye, however, when I see what eyes ye make, it—To-day, when everything tottereth, when all the earththee there is little of the magic spirit.almost seemeth to me that ye seek more insecurity,“Thou praisest me,” replied the conscientious one, “in —More horror, more danger, more earthquake. Ye longthat thou separatest me from thyself; very well! But, ye (it almost seemeth so to me—forgive my presumption,others, what do I see? Ye still sit there, all of you, with ye higher men)—lusting eyes—:—Ye long for the worst and dangerousest life, whichYe free spirits, whither hath your freedom gone! Ye frighteneth me most,—for the life of wild beasts, foralmost seem to me to resemble those who have long forests, caves, steep mountains and labyrinthine gorges.looked at bad girls dancing naked: your souls themselves And it is not those who lead out of danger that pleasedance!you best, but those who lead you away from all paths,In you, ye higher men, there must be more of that the misleaders. But if such longing in you be actual, itwhich the magician calleth his evil spirit of magic and seemeth to me nevertheless to be impossible.deceit:—we must indeed be different.For fear—that is man’s original and fundamental feeling;through fear everything is explained, original sin andAnd verily, we spake and thought long enough togetherere Zarathustra came home to his cave, for me not to be original virtue. Through fear there grew also my virtue,unaware that we are different.that is to say: Science.We seek different things even here aloft, ye and I. For I For fear of wild animals—that hath been longest fosteredin man, inclusive of the animal which he concealethseek more security; on that account have I come toZarathustra. For he is still the most steadfast tower and and feareth in himself:—Zarathustra calleth it ‘the beastwill—inside.’270