The hesitation of the disciples. “We are already able to bear with this doctrine, but we should destroy the many by means of it!”
Zarathustra laughs: “Ye shall be the hammer: I laid this hammer in your hands.”
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I do not speak to you as I speak to the people. The highest thing for them would be to despise and to annihilate themselves: the next highest thing would be for them to despise and annihilate each other.
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“My will to do good compels me to remain silent. But my will to the Superman bids me speak and sacrifice even my friends.”
“I would fain form and transform you, how could I endure things otherwise!”
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The history of higher man. The rearing of the better man is incalculably more painful. The ideal of the necessary sacrifice which it involves, as in the case of Zarathustra, should be demonstrated: A man should leave his home, his family and his native land. Live under the scorn of the prevailing morality. The anguish of experiments and errors. The solution of all the joys offered by the older ideals (they are now felt to be partly hostile and partly strange).
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