查拉图斯特拉如是说 英文版 Thus Spake Zarathustra
尼采 Friedrich Nietzsche
XV. The Thousand and One Goals.
Many lands saw Zarathustra, and many peoples: thus he discovered the goodand bad of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earththan good and bad.
No people could live without first valuing; if a people will maintainitself, however, it must not value as its neighbour valueth.
Much that passed for good with one people was regarded with scorn andcontempt by another: thus I found it. Much found I here called bad, whichwas there decked with purple honours.
Never did the one neighbour understand the other: ever did his soul marvelat his neighbour's delusion and wickedness.
A table of excellencies hangeth over every people. Lo! it is the table oftheir triumphs; lo! it is the voice of their Will to Power.
It is laudable, what they think hard; what is indispensable and hard theycall good; and what relieveth in the direst distress, the unique andhardest of all,--they extol as holy.
Whatever maketh them rule and conquer and shine, to the dismay and envy oftheir neighbours, they regard as the high and foremost thing, the test andthe meaning of all else.
Verily, my brother, if thou knewest but a people's need, its land, its sky,and its neighbour, then wouldst thou divine the law of its surmountings,and why it climbeth up that ladder to its hope.
"Always shalt thou be the foremost and prominent above others: no oneshall thy jealous soul love, except a friend"--that made the soul of aGreek thrill: thereby went he his way to greatness.
"To speak truth, and be skilful with bow and arrow"--so seemed it alikepleasing and hard to the people from whom cometh my name--the name which isalike pleasing and hard to me.
"To honour father and mother, and from the root of the soul to do theirwill"--this table of surmounting hung another people over them, and becamepowerful and permanent thereby.
"To have fidelity, and for the sake of fidelity to risk honour and blood,even in evil and dangerous courses"--teaching itself so, another peoplemastered itself, and thus mastering itself, became pregnant and heavy withgreat hopes.
Verily, men have given unto themselves all their good and bad. Verily,they took it not, they found it not, it came not unto them as a voice fromheaven.
Values did man only assign to things in order to maintain himself--hecreated only the significance of things, a human significance! Therefore,calleth he himself "man," that is, the valuator.
Valuing is creating: hear it, ye creating ones! Valuation itself is thetreasure and jewel of the valued things.
Through valuation only is there value; and without valuation the nut ofexistence would be hollow. Hear it, ye creating ones!
Change of values--that is, change of the creating ones. Always doth hedestroy who hath to be a creator.
Creating ones were first of all peoples, and only in late timesindividuals; verily, the individual himself is still the latest creation.
Peoples once hung over them tables of the good. Love which would rule andlove which would obey, created for themselves such tables.
Older is the pleasure in the herd than the pleasure in the ego: and aslong as the good conscience is for the herd, the bad conscience only saith:ego.
Verily, the crafty ego, the loveless one, that seeketh its advantage in theadvantage of many--it is not the origin of the herd, but its ruin.
from whom cometh my name--the name .
Loving ones, was it always, and creating ones, that created good and bad.Fire of love gloweth in the names of all the virtues, and fire of wrath.
Many lands saw Zarathustra, and many peoples: no greater power didZarathustra find on earth than the creations of the loving ones--"good" and"bad" are they called.
Verily, a prodigy is this power of praising and blaming. Tell me, yebrethren, who will master it for me? Who will put a fetter upon thethousand necks of this animal?
A thousand goals have there been hitherto, for a thousand peoples havethere been. Only the fetter for the thousand necks is still lacking; thereis lacking the one goal. As yet humanity hath not a goal.
But pray tell me, my brethren, if the goal of humanity be still lacking, isthere not also still lacking--humanity itself?--
Thus spake Zarathustra.