Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche (best thriller novels of all time .txt) đ
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âThe most comprehensive soul, which can run and stray and rove furthest in itself; the most necessary soul, which out of joy flingeth itself into chance:â â
âThe soul in Being, which plungeth into Becoming; the possessing soul, which seeketh to attain desire and longing:â â
âThe soul fleeing from itself, which overtaketh itself in the widest circuit; the wisest soul, unto which folly speaketh most sweetly:â â
âThe soul most self-loving, in which all things have their current and countercurrent, their ebb and their flow:â âoh, how could the loftiest soul fail to have the worst parasites?
XXO my brethren, am I then cruel? But I say: What falleth, that shall one also push!
Everything of todayâ âit falleth, it decayeth; who would preserve it! But Iâ âI wish also to push it!
Know ye the delight which rolleth stones into precipitous depths?â âThose men of today, see just how they roll into my depths!
A prelude am I to better players, O my brethren! An example! Do according to mine example!
And him whom ye do not teach to fly, teach I pray youâ âto fall faster!â â
XXII love the brave: but it is not enough to be a swordsmanâ âone must also know whereon to use swordsmanship!
And often is it greater bravery to keep quiet and pass by, that thereby one may reserve oneself for a worthier foe!
Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes. Thus have I already taught.
For the worthier foe, O my brethren, shall ye reserve yourselves: therefore must ye pass by many a oneâ â
âEspecially many of the rabble, who din your ears with noise about people and peoples.
Keep your eye clear of their For and Against! There is there much right, much wrong: he who looketh on becometh wroth.
Therein viewing, therein hewingâ âthey are the same thing: therefore depart into the forests and lay your sword to sleep!
Go your ways! and let the people and peoples go theirs!â âgloomy ways, verily, on which not a single hope glinteth any more!
Let there the trader rule, where all that still glittereth isâ âtradersâ gold. It is the time of kings no longer: that which now calleth itself the people is unworthy of kings.
See how these peoples themselves now do just like the traders: they pick up the smallest advantage out of all kinds of rubbish!
They lay lures for one another, they lure things out of one anotherâ âthat they call âgood neighbourliness.â O blessed remote period when a people said to itself: âI will beâ âmaster over peoples!â
For, my brethren, the best shall rule, the best also willeth to rule! And where the teaching is different, thereâ âthe best is lacking.
XXIIIf they hadâ âbread for nothing, alas! for what would they cry! Their maintainmentâ âthat is their true entertainment; and they shall have it hard!
Beasts of prey, are they: in their âworkingââ âthere is even plundering, in their âearningââ âthere is even overreaching! Therefore shall they have it hard!
Better beasts of prey shall they thus become, subtler, cleverer, more manlike: for man is the best beast of prey.
All the animals hath man already robbed of their virtues: that is why of all animals it hath been hardest for man.
Only the birds are still beyond him. And if man should yet learn to fly, alas! to what heightâ âwould his rapacity fly!
XXIIIThus would I have man and woman: fit for war, the one; fit for maternity, the other; both, however, fit for dancing with head and legs.
And lost be the day to us in which a measure hath not been danced. And false be every truth which hath not had laughter along with it!
XXIVYour marriage-arranging: see that it be not a bad arranging! Ye have arranged too hastily: so there followeth therefromâ âmarriage-breaking!
And better marriage-breaking than marriage-bending, marriage-lying!â âThus spake a woman unto me: âIndeed, I broke the marriage, but first did the marriage breakâ âme!â
The badly paired found I ever the most revengeful: they make everyone suffer for it that they no longer run singly.
On that account want I the honest ones to say to one another: âWe love each other: let us see to it that we maintain our love! Or shall our pledging be blundering?â
ââGive us a set term and a small marriage, that we may see if we are fit for the great marriage! It is a great matter always to be twain.â
Thus do I counsel all honest ones; and what would be my love to the Superman, and to all that is to come, if I should counsel and speak otherwise!
Not only to propagate yourselves onwards but upwardsâ âthereto, O my brethren, may the garden of marriage help you!
XXVHe who hath grown wise concerning old origins, lo, he will at last seek after the fountains of the future and new origins.â â
O my brethren, not long will it be until new peoples shall arise and new fountains shall rush down into new depths.
For the earthquakeâ âit choketh up many wells, it causeth much languishing: but it bringeth also to light inner powers and secrets.
The earthquake discloseth new fountains. In the earthquake of old peoples new fountains burst forth.
And whoever calleth out: âLo, here is a well for many thirsty ones, one heart for many longing ones, one will for many instrumentsâ:â âaround him collecteth a people, that is to say, many attempting ones.
Who can command, who must obeyâ âthat is there attempted! Ah, with what long seeking and solving and failing and learning and re-attempting!
Human society: it is an attemptâ âso I teachâ âa long seeking: it seeketh however the ruler!â â
âAn attempt, my brethren! And no âcontractâ! Destroy, I pray you, destroy that word of the softhearted and half-and-half!
XXVIO my brethren! With whom lieth the greatest danger to the whole human future? Is it not with the good and just?â â
âAs those who say and feel in their hearts: âWe already know what
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