《查拉图斯特拉如是说·第一部》第38节
Many short follies—that is called love by you. And your marriage putteth an end to many short follies, with one long stupidity. Your love to woman, and woman’s love to man—ah, would that it were sympathy for suffering and veiled deities! But generally two animals alight on one another. But even your best love is only an enraptured simile and a painful ardour. It is a torch to light you to loftier paths. Beyond yourselves shall ye love some day! Then LEARN first of all to love. And on that account ye had to drink the bitter cup of your love. Bitterness is in the cup even of the best love: thus doth it cause longing for the Superman; thus doth it cause thirst in thee, the creating one! Thirst in the creating one, arrow and longing for the Superman: tell me, my brother, is this thy will to marriage? Holy call I such a will, and such a marriage.— Thus spake Zarathustra.
注释摘要
查拉图斯特拉在《孩子与婚姻》的结尾，将他关于两性之爱与婚姻的教诲推向了一个格言式的高潮。他首先用一句尖锐的嘲弄肢解了常人对爱情与婚姻的习惯性美化：那些被称作爱的，不过是层出不穷的短暂昏聩；而婚姻非但没有将这些昏聩升华，反而用一段冗长且沉闷的愚蠢将它们终结。这里“长期愚蠢”并非仅仅指日常的厌倦与互相消磨，更是指这样一种状态——两人在婚姻的庇护下安于现状，不再…