Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Thus Spake Zarathustrawith this new portrait of the Saviour, purged of all impurities,Nietzsche rendered military honours to a foe, which permitted,” and then they become mere wreckage. “Toosuch men do indeed cry out: “Nothing is true; all isfar exceed in worth all that His most ardent disciples much hath become clear unto me: now nothing matterethhave ever claimed for Him. In verse 26 we are vividly to me any more. Nothing liveth any longer that I love,—reminded of Herbert Spencer’s words “‘Le mariage de how should I still love myself! Have I still a goal? Whereconvenance’ is legalised prostitution.”is MY home?” Zarathustra realises the danger threateningsuch a man. “Thy danger is not small, thou free spirit andwanderer,” he says. “Thou hast had a bad day. See that aChapter LXIX. The Shadowstill worse evening doth not overtake thee!” The dangerZarathustra refers to is precisely this, that even a prisonHERE WE HAVE a description of that courageous and waywardspirit that literally haunts the footsteps of every keep him in a place of rest; a place of confinement, at itsmay seem a blessing to such a man. At least the barsgreat thinker and every great leader; sometimes with the worst, is real. “Beware lest in the end a narrow faithresult that it loses all aims, all hopes, and all trust in a capture thee,” says Zarathustra, “for now everything thatdefinite goal. It is the case of the bravest and most is narrow and fixed seduceth and tempteth thee.”broad-minded men of to-day. These literally shadow themost daring movements in the science and art of theirChapter LXX. Noontidegeneration; they completely lose their bearings and actuallyfind themselves, in the end, without a way, a goal, or AT THE NOON of life Nietzsche said he entered the world;a home. “On every surface have I already sat!...I become with him man came of age. We are now held responsiblethin, I am almost equal to a shadow!” At last, in despair, for our actions; our old guardians, the gods and demi-332