"My ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to mankind: no longer bury your head in the sand of heavenly things, but bear it freely instead, an earthly head that creates a meaning for the earth!"
On the HinterworldlyKitabı okuyor
“'Body am I and soul' – so speaks a child. And why should one not speak like children?
But the awakened, the knowing one says: body am I through and through, and nothing besides; and soul is just a word for something on the body."
On the Despisers of the BodyKitabı okuyor
"Human being is something that must be overcome."
On the Passions of Pleasure and PainKitabı okuyor
"Hear my brothers, hear the voice of the healthy body: a more honest and purer voice is this.
More honestly and more purely speaks the healthy body, the perfect and perpendicular body, and it speaks of the meaning of the earth."
On the HinterworldlyKitabı okuyor
“'The other world' is well hidden from humans, that dehumaned, inhuman world that is a heavenly nothing. And the belly of being does not speak at all to humans, unless as a human."
On the HinterworldlyKitabı okuyor
"Even in your folly and your contempt, you despisers of the body, you serve your self. I say to you: your self itself wants to die and turns away from life.
No longer is it capable of that which it wants most: to create beyond itself. This it wants most of all, this is its entire fervor.
But now it is too late for that, and so your self wants to go under, you despisers of the body.
Your self wants to go under, and for this reason you became despisers of the body! For you no longer are capable of creating beyond yourselves.
And that is why you are angry now at life and earth. There is an unknown envy in the looking askance of your contempt."
On the Despisers of the BodyKitabı okuyor
"Weariness that wants its ultimate with one great leap, with a death leap; a poor unknowing weariness that no longer even wants to will: that created all gods and hinterworlds."
On the HinterworldlyKitabı okuyor
"The creator wanted to look away from himself and so he created the world."
On the HinterworldlyKitabı okuyor
"Once Zarathustra too cast his delusion beyond humans, like all hinter- worldly. At that time the world seemed to me the work of a suffering and tortured god.
Then the world seemed a dream to me and the fiction of a god; colorful smoke before the eyes of a divine dissatisfied being.
Good and evil and joy and suffering and I and you – colorful smoke it seemed to me before creative eyes. The creator wanted to look away from himself and so he created the world.
It is drunken joy to the suffering one to look away from one’s suffering and to lose oneself. Drunken joy and losing-oneself the world once seemed to me.
This world, the eternally imperfect, the mirror image and imperfect image of an eternal contradiction – a drunken joy to its imperfect creator: thus the world once seemed to me."
On the HinterworldlyKitabı okuyor
"It is distinguishing to have many virtues, but it is a hard lot. And many went into the desert and killed themselves because they were weary of being the battle and battlefield of virtues. My brother, are war and battle evil? But this evil is necessary, envy and mistrust and slander among your virtues are necessary.
Look, how each of your virtues is greedy for the highest. It wants your entire spirit, to be its herald; it wants your entire strength in rage, hatred and love.
Each virtue is jealous of the other, and jealousy is a terrible thing. Even virtues can perish of jealousy.
Whoever is ringed by the flame of jealousy in the end will turn his poisonous stinger upon himself, like the scorpion. Oh my brother, have you never seen a virtue slander and stab itself?
Human being is something that must be overcome, and therefore you should love your virtues – for of them you will perish."
On the Passions of Pleasure and PainKitabı okuyor
"At peace with God and neighbor, thus good sleep demands. And at peace too with the neighbor’s devil! Otherwise he will be at your house at night."
On the Teachers of VirtueKitabı okuyor
"I learned to walk, since then I let myself run. I learned to fly, since then I do not wait to be pushed to move from the spot.
Now I am light, now I fly, now I see myself beneath me, now a god dances through me."
On Reading and WritingKitabı okuyor
"At that time the world seemed to me the work of a suffering and tortured god."
On the HinterworldlyKitabı okuyor
"Once you had passions and named them evil. But now you have only your virtues: they grew out of your passions."
On the Passions of Pleasure and PainKitabı okuyor
“'I' you say and are proud of this word. But what is greater is that in which you do not want to believe – your body and its great reason. It does not say I, but does I."
On the Despisers of the BodyKitabı okuyor