《查拉图斯特拉如是说·第三部》第44节
This new table, O my brethren, put I up over you: BECOME HARD!— O thou, my Will! Thou change of every need, MY needfulness! Preserve me from all small victories! Thou fatedness of my soul, which I call fate! Thou In-me! Over-me! Preserve and spare me for one great fate! And thy last greatness, my Will, spare it for thy last—that thou mayest be inexorable IN thy victory! Ah, who hath not succumbed to his victory! Ah, whose eye hath not bedimmed in this intoxicated twilight! Ah, whose foot hath not faltered and forgotten in victory—how to stand!— —That I may one day be ready and ripe in the great noontide: ready and ripe like the glowing ore, the lightning-bearing cloud, and the swelling milk-udder:— —Ready for myself and for my most hidden Will: a bow eager for its arrow, an arrow eager for its star:— —A star, ready and ripe in its noontide, glowing, pierced, blessed, by annihilating sun-arrows:— —A sun itself, and an inexorable sun-will, ready for annihilation in victory! O Will, thou change of every need, MY needfulness! Spare me for one great victory!— Thus spake Zarathustra.
注释摘要
这段呼告是全章“旧榜与新榜”的最终高潮，也是查拉图斯特拉在颁布了一连串新价值之后，转向自己内心深处的一次自我对话与自我命令。他此前已砸碎了许多旧榜，也写下了许多新榜，但这里他把一块新榜高举于门徒之上，上面只刻着一句极简的箴言：“变得坚硬！” 这句话不能被粗浅地理解为冷酷无情。此处的“硬”首先反对的是前文反复批判的那种“柔顺”“妥协”“温和适度的道德”。查拉…