《查拉图斯特拉如是说·第三部》第16节
Also what ye omit weaveth at the web of all the human future; even your naught is a cobweb, and a spider that liveth on the blood of the future. And when ye take, then is it like stealing, ye small virtuous ones; but even among knaves HONOUR saith that “one shall only steal when one cannot rob.” “It giveth itself”—that is also a doctrine of submission. But I say unto you, ye comfortable ones, that IT TAKETH TO ITSELF, and will ever take more and more from you! Ah, that ye would renounce all HALF-willing, and would decide for idleness as ye decide for action! Ah, that ye understood my word: “Do ever what ye will—but first be such as CAN WILL. Love ever your neighbour as yourselves—but first be such as LOVE THEMSELVES— —Such as love with great love, such as love with great contempt!” Thus speaketh Zarathustra the godless.— But why talk I, when no one hath MINE ears! It is still an hour too early for me here. Mine own forerunner am I among this people, mine own cockcrow in dark lanes. But THEIR hour cometh! And there cometh also mine! Hourly do they become smaller, poorer, unfruitfuller,—poor herbs! poor earth! And SOON shall they stand before me like dry grass and prairie, and verily, weary of themselves—and panting for FIRE, more than for water! O blessed hour of the lightning! O mystery before noontide!—Running fires will I one day make of them, and heralds with flaming tongues:— —Herald shall they one day with flaming tongues: It cometh, it is nigh, THE GREAT NOONTIDE! Thus spake Zarathustra.
注释摘要
查拉图斯特拉在这一段里，把矛头对准了那些自以为清白无辜的“小德性之人”。他不只是在批评道德上的怯懦，更是在揭示一种存在论意义上的怠惰：你们以为“不做”就是无害的，但你们所遗漏、所省略、所不肯决断的东西，同样在编织人类未来的罗网。这蛛网看似轻飘，却是以未来的血液为食的活物。这个意象呼应了尼采反复表达过的一个洞见：人类历史并非只由英雄的壮举构成，庸人的无所作为…