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"I bring you the Superman! Mankind is something to be surpassed. What have you done to surpass mankind?
You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth! I beg of you my brothers, remain true to the earth, and believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes!
"In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman- a rope over an abyss.
The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes.
3 Stages of the soul…1) Camel - we bare the weight of all the arbitrary values of society…2) Lion - we attack the dragon that represents the collective will of human Society and its multitudes of value requirements or Thou Shalts to free ourselves instead to declare I WILL…3) The Child - we transcend antiquated value systems and structures and construct better, newer values more in harmony with reason and our lot in life
For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred Yes is needed: the spirit now wills his own will; the world's outcast now conquers his own world.
It was suffering and impotence- that created all afterworlds; and the brief madness of bliss, which only the greatest sufferer experiences.
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all gods and afterworlds.
A new pride my ego taught me, and this I teach to men: no longer to bury one's head into the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, a earthly head, which gives meaning to the earth!
From their misery they sought escape, and the stars were too remote for them. Then they sighed: "O that there were heavenly paths by which to steal into another existence and into happiness!" Then they contrived for themselves their bypaths and bloody potions!
They always look backward to dark ages: Indeed, delusion and faith were then something different. To rave reason was godlike, and to doubt was sin.
Hearken rather, my brothers, to the voice of the healthy body; it is a more honest and pure voice.
But the awakened one, the knowing one, says: "Body am I entirely, and nothing more; and soul is only the name of something in the body."
