For the good—they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end:—
They crucify him who writeth new values on new tables, they sacrifice unto themselves the future—they crucify the whole human future! 260
This new table, O my brethren, put I up over you: Become hard! 262
Everything goeth, everything returneth; eternally rolleth the wheel of existence. Everything dieth, everything blossometh forth again; eternally runneth on the year of existence.
Everything breaketh, everything is integrated anew; eternally buildeth itself the same house of existence. All things separate, all things again greet one another; eternally true to itself remaineth the ring of existence.
Every moment beginneth existence, around every "Here" rolleth the ball "There." The middle is everywhere. 266
For man his baddest is necessary for his best.
That all that is baddest is the best power, and the hardest stone for the highest creator; and that man must become better and badder:—267
The plexus of causes returneth in which I am intertwined,—it will again create me! I myself pertain to the causes of the eternal return.