《查拉图斯特拉如是说·第二部》第25节

查拉图斯特拉如是说 · 第3部 · 第25节

With your values and formulae of good and evil, ye exercise power, ye valuing ones: and that is your secret love, and the sparkling, trembling, and overflowing of your souls. But a stronger power groweth out of your values, and a new surpassing: by it breaketh egg and egg-shell. And he who hath to be a creator in good and evil—verily, he hath first to be a destroyer, and break values in pieces. Thus doth the greatest evil pertain to the greatest good: that, however, is the creating good.— Let us SPEAK thereof, ye wisest ones, even though it be bad. To be silent is worse; all suppressed truths become poisonous. And let everything break up which—can break up by our truths! Many a house is still to be built!— Thus spake Zarathustra.

注释摘要

这是“自我超越”一章的收束段落,查拉图斯特拉直接对那些“最智慧者”把话挑明了。他不再用寓言去包裹,而是近乎直白地揭示:你们所珍视并据以判断一切的善恶公式,本身就是你们行使权力的方式。你们以为自己在寻找真理,实际上你们是在用价值评估把世界塑造成自己能够跪拜的样子。那种在你们灵魂中闪烁、颤抖、漫溢的东西,被你们叫作对真理的爱,其实是一种隐秘的、连你们自己都没认…