Only his beauty is his defence. He lays his hands on the next thousand years.
His love increases as he sees the impossibility of avoiding the affliction of pain with it.
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Zarathustra’s mood is not one of mad impatience for Superman! It is peaceful, it can wait: but all action has derived some purpose from being the road and means thither,—and must be done well and perfectly.
The repose of the great stream! Consecration of the smallest thing. All unrest, and violent longing, all loathing should be presented in the third part and be overcome! The gentleness, and mildness, &c., in the first and second parts are both signs of a power which is not yet self-reliant!
With the recovery of Zarathustra, Cæsar stands there inexorable and kind:—the gulf separating creation, goodness, and wisdom is annihilated.
Clearness, peace, no exaggerated craving, happiness in the moment which is properly occupied and immortalised!
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Zarathustra, Part III.: “I myself am happy.”—When he had taken leave of mankind he returned unto himself. Like a cloud it vanishes from him. The manner in which Superman must live: like an Epicurean God.
Divine suffering is the substance of the third part of Zarathustra. The human state of the legislator is only brought forward as an example.