Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Thus Spake Zarathustradistant seas; now, however, have I taught you to say, discerning ones? Neither in the inconceivable could yeSuperman.have been born, nor in the irrational.God is a conjecture: but I do not wish your conjecturingto reach beyond your creating will.friends: IF there were gods, how could I endure it to beBut that I may reveal my heart entirely unto you, myCould ye create a God?—Then, I pray you, be silent no God! Therefore there are no Gods.about all Gods! But ye could well create the Superman. Yea, I have drawn the conclusion; now, however, dothNot perhaps ye yourselves, my brethren! But into fathersand forefathers of the Superman could ye transform God is a conjecture: but who could drink all the bitter-it draw me.—yourselves: and let that be your best creating!— ness of this conjecture without dying? Shall his faith beGod is a conjecture: but I should like your conjecturing taken from the creating one, and from the eagle his flightsrestricted to the conceivable.into eagle-heights?Could ye conceive a God?—But let this mean Will to God is a thought—it maketh all the straight crooked,Truth unto you, that everything be transformed into the and all that standeth reel. What? Time would be gone,humanly conceivable, the humanly visible, the humanly and all the perishable would be but a lie?sensible! Your own discernment shall ye follow out to the To think this is giddiness and vertigo to human limbs,end!and even vomiting to the stomach: verily, the reelingAnd what ye have called the world shall but be created sickness do I call it, to conjecture such a thing.by you: your reason, your likeness, your will, your love, Evil do I call it and misanthropic: all that teachingshall it itself become! And verily, for your bliss, ye discerningones!the sufficient, and the imperishable!about the one, and the plenum, and the unmoved, andAnd how would ye endure life without that hope, ye All the imperishable—that’s but a simile, and the po-84