Friedrich Nietzsche
"And then it also happened! (Zarathustra's) teaching glorified selfishness - the sound healthy selfishness that issues from a mighty soul - from a mighty soul, to which pertains the exalted body, the beautiful, victorious, refreshing body, around which everything becomes a mirror.
The supple persuasive body, the dancer whose image and epitome is the self rejoicing soul. The self rejoicing of such bodies and souls calls itself 'Virtue'.
Such self rejoicing protects itself with its doctrines of good and bad as with sacred groves; with the names it gives its happiness it banishes from itself all that is contemptible.
It banishes from itself all that is cowardly; it says: Bad - that is to say, cowardly! He who is always worrying, sighing, complaining, and who gleans even the smallest advantage, seems contemptible to it.
It also despises all woeful wisdom: for truly, there is also a wisdom that blossoms in darkness, a night-shade wisdom, which is always sighing: 'All is vain!'
Timid mistrustfulness seems base to it, as do all who desire oaths instead of looks and hands; and all-too-mistrustful wisdom, for such is the nature of cowardly souls.
It regards as baser yet, him who is quick to please, who, doglike, lies upon his back, the humble man; and there is also a wisdom that is humble and dog-like and pious and quick to please.
Entirely hateful and loathsome to it is he who will never defend himself, who swallows down poisonous spittle and evil looks, the too patient man who puts up with everything, is content with everything: for that is the nature of slaves.
Whether one be servile before gods and divine kicks, or before men and the silly opinions of men: it spits at slaves of all kinds, this glorious selfishness!
Bad: that is what it calls all that is broken down and night-gardly-servile, unclear, blinking eyes, oppressed hearts, and that false, yielding type of man who kisses with broad, cowardly lips.
And sham wisdom: that is what it calls all wit that slaves and old men and weary men affect; and especially the whole bad, raving, over-clever priest-foolishness!
And to ill-use selfishness – precisely that has been virtue and called virtue. And ‘selfless’ – that is what, with good reason, all these world-weary cowards and cross-spiders wished to be!
But now the day, the transformation, the sword of judge-ment, the great noontide comes to them all: then many things shall be revealed!
And he who declares the Ego healthy and holy and selfishness glorious – truly, he, a prophet, declares too what he knows: ‘Behold, it comes, it is near, the great noontide!’
Thus spoke Zarathustra.
"
Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" p208-9.
The supple persuasive body, the dancer whose image and epitome is the self rejoicing soul. The self rejoicing of such bodies and souls calls itself 'Virtue'.
Such self rejoicing protects itself with its doctrines of good and bad as with sacred groves; with the names it gives its happiness it banishes from itself all that is contemptible.
It banishes from itself all that is cowardly; it says: Bad - that is to say, cowardly! He who is always worrying, sighing, complaining, and who gleans even the smallest advantage, seems contemptible to it.
It also despises all woeful wisdom: for truly, there is also a wisdom that blossoms in darkness, a night-shade wisdom, which is always sighing: 'All is vain!'
Timid mistrustfulness seems base to it, as do all who desire oaths instead of looks and hands; and all-too-mistrustful wisdom, for such is the nature of cowardly souls.
It regards as baser yet, him who is quick to please, who, doglike, lies upon his back, the humble man; and there is also a wisdom that is humble and dog-like and pious and quick to please.
Entirely hateful and loathsome to it is he who will never defend himself, who swallows down poisonous spittle and evil looks, the too patient man who puts up with everything, is content with everything: for that is the nature of slaves.
Whether one be servile before gods and divine kicks, or before men and the silly opinions of men: it spits at slaves of all kinds, this glorious selfishness!
Bad: that is what it calls all that is broken down and night-gardly-servile, unclear, blinking eyes, oppressed hearts, and that false, yielding type of man who kisses with broad, cowardly lips.
And sham wisdom: that is what it calls all wit that slaves and old men and weary men affect; and especially the whole bad, raving, over-clever priest-foolishness!
And to ill-use selfishness – precisely that has been virtue and called virtue. And ‘selfless’ – that is what, with good reason, all these world-weary cowards and cross-spiders wished to be!
But now the day, the transformation, the sword of judge-ment, the great noontide comes to them all: then many things shall be revealed!
And he who declares the Ego healthy and holy and selfishness glorious – truly, he, a prophet, declares too what he knows: ‘Behold, it comes, it is near, the great noontide!’
Thus spoke Zarathustra.
"
Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" p208-9.
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