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Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none
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| Excerpt: ... come unto me, this dream and heart-comforter! And that I may do the like by day, and imitate and copy its best, now will I put the three worst things on the scales, and weigh them humanly well.- He who taught to bless taught also to curse: what are the three best cursed things in the world? These will I put on the scales. VOLUPTUOUSNESS, PASSION FOR POWER, and SELFISHNESS: these three things have hitherto been best cursed, and have been in worst and falsest repute-these three things will I weigh humanly well. Well! Here is my promontory, and there is the sea-IT rolleth hither unto me, shaggily and fawningly, the old, faithful, hundred-headed dog-monster that I love!- Well! Here will I hold the scales over the weltering sea: and also a witness do I choose to look on-thee, the anchorite-tree, thee, the strong-odoured, broad-arched tree that I love!- On what bridge goeth the now to the hereafter? By what constraint doth the high stoop to the low? And what enjoineth even the highest still-to grow upwards?- Now stand the scales poised and at rest: three heavy questions have I thrown in; three heavy answers carrieth the other scale. 2. Voluptuousness: unto all hair-shirted despisers of the body, a sting and stake; and, cursed as "the world," by all backworldsmen: for it mocketh and befooleth all erring, misinferring teachers. Voluptuousness: to the rabble, the slow fire at which it is burnt; to all wormy wood, to all stinking rags, the prepared heat and stew furnace. Voluptuousness: to free hearts, a thing innocent and free, the garden-happiness of the earth, all the future's thanks-overflow to the present. Voluptuousness: only to the withered a sweet poison; to the lion-willed, however, the great cordial, and the reverently saved wine of wines. Voluptuousness: the great symbolic happiness of a higher happiness and highest hope. For to many is marriage promised, and more than marriage,- -To... |
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