Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Thus Spake ZarathustraI HAVE A QUESTION for thee alone, my brother: like a sounding-lead,cast I this question into thy soul, that I may ence for one another, as those exercising such a will, callone that is more than those who created it. The rever-know its depth.I marriage.Thou art young, and desirest child and marriage. But I Let this be the significance and the truth of thy marriage.But that which the many-too-many call marriage,ask thee: Art thou a man entitled to desire a child?Art thou the victorious one, the self-conqueror, the ruler of those superfluous ones—ah, what shall I call it?thy passions, the master of thy virtues? Thus do I ask thee. Ah, the poverty of soul in the twain! Ah, the filth ofOr doth the animal speak in thy wish, and necessity? Or soul in the twain! Ah, the pitiable self-complacency inisolation? Or discord in thee?the twain!I would have thy victory and freedom long for a child. Marriage they call it all; and they say their marriagesLiving monuments shalt thou build to thy victory and are made in heaven.emancipation.Well, I do not like it, that heaven of the superfluous!Beyond thyself shalt thou build. But first of all must No, I do not like them, those animals tangled in thethou be built thyself, rectangular in body and soul. heavenly toils!Not only onward shalt thou propagate thyself, but upward!For that purpose may the garden of marriage help bless what he hath not matched!Far from me also be the God who limpeth thither tothee!Laugh not at such marriages! What child hath not hadA higher body shalt thou create, a first movement, a reason to weep over its parents?spontaneously rolling wheel—a creating one shalt thou create.the earth: but when I saw his wife, the earth seemed toWorthy did this man seem, and ripe for the meaning ofMarriage: so call I the will of the twain to create the me a home for madcaps.72