Thus it thought to escape from the body and the earth. Once the soul looked contemptuously upon the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing: - the soul wished the body lean, monstrous, and famished. Now to blaspheme against the earth is the greatest sin, and to rank love for the Unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth! Once blasphemy against God was the greatest blasphemy but God died, and those blasphemers died along with him. Despisers of life are they, decaying ones and poisoned ones themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so away with them! Let your will say: The Overman shall be the meaning of the earth! I beg of you my brothers, remain true to the earth, and believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poisoners are they, whether they know it or not. But do I ask you to become phantoms or plants?īehold, I teach you the Overman! The Overman is the meaning of the earth. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.Įven the wisest among you is only a confusion and hybrid of plant and phantom. You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. And just so shall a man be to the Overman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.

Do you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and revert back to the beast rather than overcome mankind? What is the ape to a man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. What have youĪll beings so far have created something beyond themselves.

People: I teach you the Overman! Mankind is something to be overcome. Introduce the tightrope walker, gathered around to listen.

The crowd, believing that Zarathustra was the ringmaster come to Many people had gathered there in the marketplace to see a tightrope walker who had promised a When Zarathustra arrived at the edge of the forest, he came upon a town. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (excerpts)īack to philosophy page Friedrich Nietzsche:

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