查拉图斯特拉如是说 英文版 Thus Spake Zarathustra
尼采 Friedrich Nietzsche
LVI. Old and New Tables. Page 2
Only, my brethren, see that ye scare the dogs away from him, the idleskulkers, and all the swarming vermin:--
--All the swarming vermin of the "cultured," that--feast on the sweat ofevery hero!--
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I form circles around me and holy boundaries; ever fewer ascend with meever higher mountains: I build a mountain-range out of ever holiermountains.--
But wherever ye would ascend with me, O my brethren, take care lest aPARASITE ascend with you!
A parasite: that is a reptile, a creeping, cringing reptile, that triethto fatten on your infirm and sore places.
And THIS is its art: it divineth where ascending souls are weary, in yourtrouble and dejection, in your sensitive modesty, doth it build itsloathsome nest.
Where the strong are weak, where the noble are all-too-gentle--therebuildeth it its loathsome nest; the parasite liveth where the great havesmall sore-places.
What is the highest of all species of being, and what is the lowest? Theparasite is the lowest species; he, however, who is of the highest speciesfeedeth most parasites.
For the soul which hath the longest ladder, and can go deepest down: howcould there fail to be most parasites upon it?--
--The most comprehensive soul, which can run and stray and rove furthest initself; the most necessary soul, which out of joy flingeth itself intochance:--
--The soul in Being, which plungeth into Becoming; the possessing soul,which SEEKETH to attain desire and longing:--
--The soul fleeing from itself, which overtaketh itself in the widestcircuit; the wisest soul, unto which folly speaketh most sweetly:--
--The soul most self-loving, in which all things have their current andcounter-current, their ebb and their flow:--oh, how could THE LOFTIEST SOULfail to have the worst parasites?
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O my brethren, am I then cruel? But I say: What falleth, that shall onealso push!
Everything of to-day--it falleth, it decayeth; who would preserve it! ButI--I wish also to push it!
Know ye the delight which rolleth stones into precipitous depths?--Thosemen of to-day, see just how they roll into my depths!
A prelude am I to better players, O my brethren! An example! DO accordingto mine example!
And him whom ye do not teach to fly, teach I pray you--TO FALL FASTER!--
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I love the brave: but it is not enough to be a swordsman,--one must alsoknow WHEREON to use swordsmanship!
And often is it greater bravery to keep quiet and pass by, that THEREBY onemay reserve oneself for a worthier foe!
Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye mustbe 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 one,--
--Especially many of the rabble, who din your ears with noise about peopleand 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 hewing--they are the same thing: therefore departinto the forests and lay your sword to sleep!
Go YOUR ways! and let the people and peoples go theirs!--gloomy ways,verily, on which not a single hope glinteth any more!
Let there the trader rule, where all that still glittereth is--traders'gold. It is the time of kings no longer: that which now calleth itselfthe people is unworthy of kings.
See how these peoples themselves now do just like the traders: they pickup the smallest advantage out of all kinds of rubbish!
They lay lures for one another, they lure things out of one another,--thatthey call "good neighbourliness." O blessed remote period when a peoplesaid to itself: "I will be--MASTER over peoples!"
For, my brethren, the best shall rule, the best also WILLETH to rule! Andwhere the teaching is different, there--the best is LACKING.
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If THEY had--bread for nothing, alas! for what would THEY cry! Theirmaintainment--that is their true entertainment; and they shall have ithard!
Beasts of prey, are they: in their "working"--there is even plundering, intheir "earning"--there is even overreaching! Therefore shall they have ithard!
Better beasts of prey shall they thus become, subtler, cleverer, MORE MAN-LIKE: for man is the best beast of prey.
All the animals hath man already robbed of their virtues: that is why ofall animals it hath been hardest for man.
theirs!--gloomy ways!
Only the birds are still beyond him. And if man should yet learn to fly,alas! TO WHAT HEIGHT--would his rapacity fly!
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Thus 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. Andfalse be every truth which hath not had laughter along with it!
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Your marriage-arranging: see that it be not a bad ARRANGING! Ye havearranged too hastily: so there FOLLOWETH therefrom--marriage-breaking!
And better marriage-breaking than marriage-bending, marriage-lying!--Thusspake a woman unto me: "Indeed, I broke the marriage, but first did themarriage break--me!
The badly paired found I ever the most revengeful: they make every onesuffer for it that they no longer run singly.
On that account want I the honest ones to say to one another: "We loveeach other: let us SEE TO IT that we maintain our love! Or shall ourpledging be blundering?"
--"Give us a set term and a small marriage, that we may see if we are fitfor the great marriage! It is a great matter always to be twain."
Thus do I counsel all honest ones; and what would be my love to theSuperman, and to all that is to come, if I should counsel and speakotherwise!
Not only to propagate yourselves onwards but UPWARDS--thereto, O mybrethren, may the garden of marriage help you!
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He who hath grown wise concerning old origins, lo, he will at last seekafter the fountains of the future and new origins.--
O my brethren, not long will it be until NEW PEOPLES shall arise and newfountains shall rush down into new depths.
For the earthquake--it 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 peoplesnew fountains burst forth.
And whoever calleth out: "Lo, here is a well for many thirsty ones, oneheart for many longing ones, one will for many instruments":--around himcollecteth a PEOPLE, that is to say, many attempting ones.
Who can command, who must obey--THAT IS THERE ATTEMPTED! Ah, with whatlong seeking and solving and failing and learning and re-attempting!
Human society: it is an attempt--so I teach--a long seeking: it seekethhowever the ruler!--
--An attempt, my brethren! And NO "contract"! Destroy, I pray you,destroy that word of the soft-hearted and half-and-half!
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O my brethren! With whom lieth the greatest danger to the whole humanfuture? Is it not with the good and just?--
--As those who say and feel in their hearts: "We already know what is goodand just, we possess it also; woe to those who still seek thereafter!
And whatever harm the wicked may do, the harm of the good is the harmfulestharm!
And whatever harm the world-maligners may do, the harm of the good is theharmfulest harm!
O my brethren, into the hearts of the good and just looked some one once ona time, who said: "They are the Pharisees." But people did not understandhim.
The good and just themselves were not free to understand him; their spiritwas imprisoned in their good conscience. The stupidity of the good isunfathomably wise.
It is the truth, however, that the good MUST be Pharisees--they have nochoice!
The good MUST crucify him who deviseth his own virtue! That IS the truth!
The second one, however, who discovered their country--the country, heartand soil of the good and just,--it was he who asked: "Whom do they hatemost?"
The CREATOR, hate they most, him who breaketh the tables and old values,the breaker,--him they call the law-breaker.
For the good--they CANNOT create; they are always the beginning of theend:--
--They crucify him who writeth new values on new tables, they sacrificeUNTO THEMSELVES the future--they crucify the whole human future!
The good--they have always been the beginning of the end.--
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O my brethren, have ye also understood this word? And what I once said ofthe "last man"?--
With whom lieth the greatest danger to the whole human future? Is it notwith the good and just?
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Ye flee from me? Ye are frightened? Ye tremble at this word?
O my brethren, when I enjoined you to break up the good, and the tables ofthe good, then only did I embark man on his high seas.
And now only cometh unto him the great terror, the great outlook, the greatsickness, the great nausea, the great sea-sickness.
False shores and false securities did the good teach you; in the lies ofthe good were ye born and bred. Everything hath been radically contortedand distorted by the good.
But he who discovered the country of "man," discovered also the country of"man's future." Now shall ye be sailors for me, brave, patient!
Keep yourselves up betimes, my brethren, learn to keep yourselves up! Thesea stormeth: many seek to raise themselves again by you.
The sea stormeth: all is in the sea. Well! Cheer up! Ye old seaman-hearts!
call fate! Thou!
What of fatherland! THITHER striveth our helm where our CHILDREN'S LANDis! Thitherwards, stormier than the sea, stormeth our great longing!--
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"Why so hard!"--said to the diamond one day the charcoal; "are we then notnear relatives?"--
Why so soft? O my brethren; thus do _I_ ask you: are ye then not--mybrethren?
Why so soft, so submissive and yielding? Why is there so much negation andabnegation in your hearts? Why is there so little fate in your looks?
And if ye will not be fates and inexorable ones, how can ye one day--conquer with me?
And if your hardness will not glance and cut and chip to pieces, how can yeone day--create with me?
For the creators are hard. And blessedness must it seem to you to pressyour hand upon millenniums as upon wax,--
--Blessedness to write upon the will of millenniums as upon brass,--harderthan brass, nobler than brass. Entirely hard is only the noblest.
This new table, O my brethren, put I up over you: BECOME HARD!--
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O thou, my Will! Thou change of every need, MY needfulness! Preserve mefrom all small victories!
Thou fatedness of my soul, which I call fate! Thou In-me! Over-me!Preserve and spare me for one great fate!
And thy last greatness, my Will, spare it for thy last--that thou mayest beinexorable IN thy victory! Ah, who hath not succumbed to his victory!
Ah, whose eye hath not bedimmed in this intoxicated twilight! Ah, whosefoot hath not faltered and forgotten in victory--how to stand!--
--That I may one day be ready and ripe in the great noontide: ready andripe like the glowing ore, the lightning-bearing cloud, and the swellingmilk-udder:--
--Ready for myself and for my most hidden Will: a bow eager for its arrow,an arrow eager for its star:--
--A star, ready and ripe in its noontide, glowing, pierced, blessed, byannihilating sun-arrows:--
--A sun itself, and an inexorable sun-will, ready for annihilation invictory!
O Will, thou change of every need, MY needfulness! Spare me for one greatvictory!---
Thus spake Zarathustra.