Simple and well-nigh arid as it is, this thought must not even require eloquence to uphold it.
43
Are ye now prepared? Ye must have experienced every form of scepticism and ye must have wallowed with voluptuousness in ice-cold baths,—otherwise ye have no right to this thought; I wish to protect myself against those who are over-ready to believe, likewise against those who gush over anything! I would defend my doctrine in advance. It must be the religion of the freest, most cheerful and most sublime souls, a delightful pastureland somewhere between golden ice and a pure heaven!
[EXPLANATORY NOTES TO “THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA”]
1
All goals have been annihilated: valuations are turning against each other:
People call him good who hearkens to the dictates of his own heart, but they also call him good who merely does his duty;
People call the mild and conciliating man good, but they also call him good who is brave, inflexible and severe;
People call him good who does not do violence to himself, but they also call the heroes of self-mastery good;