for those interested in Zarathustra, will commence dumping some select quotes from the book that really spoke to me and are even more relevant today than when Nietzsche wrote them
>mfw they tried to warn us
>we didn't listen
O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become for me progenitors and cultivators and sowers of the future–
– verily, not to a nobility that you could buy like shopkeepers and with shopkeepers’ gold: for of little value is anything that has its price.
Not whence you come shall henceforth constitute your honour, but whither you are going! Your will and your foot, which wills beyond you yourselves– may those constitute your new honour!
Verily, not that you have served some prince– what are princes worth now!– or that you have become a bulwark for that which stands, that it might stand more firmly!
Not that your lineage has become courtly in courts, and you have learned to stand, colourfully, like a flamingo, for long hours in shallow ponds.
For being able to stand is a merit in a courtier; and all courtiers believe that bliss after death consists in– being allowed to sit!–
Also not that a spirit they call holy led your ancestors to much-praised lands that I praise not: for where the worst of all trees grew, the Cross– about that land there is nothing to praise!–
– and verily, wherever this ‘Holy Spirit’ led its knights too, in such crusades there were always goats and geese and criss- and crosspatches at the head!–
O my brothers, not back shall your nobility look, but ahead! Refugees shall you be from all father-and forefather-lands!
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody (Oxford World's Classics) (p. 177). OUP Oxford. Kindle Edition.
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