《查拉图斯特拉如是说·第一部》第2节
To create itself freedom, and give a holy Nay even unto duty: for that, my brethren, there is need of the lion. To assume the right to new values—that is the most formidable assumption for a load-bearing and reverent spirit. Verily, unto such a spirit it is preying, and the work of a beast of prey. As its holiest, it once loved “Thou shalt”: now is it forced to find illusion and arbitrariness even in the holiest things, that it may capture freedom from its love: the lion is needed for this capture. But tell me, my brethren, what the child can do, which even the lion could not do? Why hath the preying lion still to become a child? Innocence is the child, and forgetfulness, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a holy Yea. Aye, for the game of creating, my brethren, there is needed a holy Yea unto life: ITS OWN will, willeth now the spirit; HIS OWN world winneth the world’s outcast. Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.— Thus spake Zarathustra. And at that time he abode in the town which is called The Pied Cow.
注释摘要
在这段话中，查拉图斯特拉正对着他的听众——那些被称作“弟兄们”的门徒或潜在的追随者——完成他对精神三种变形的论述。他刚讲完骆驼如何跪倒在“你应该”的巨龙面前，将千年积淀的价值扛在自己身上，遁入荒漠。此时他正站在狮子与孩子的转折点上：狮子在荒寂至极处登场，它的使命不是创造，而是为创造夺取自由。查拉图斯特拉现在要解释，这夺取本身究竟是什么性质的事，以及为什么狮…