《查拉图斯特拉如是说·第四部》第23节
And talk first and foremost to mine animals! The proudest animal and the wisest animal—they might well be the right counsellors for us both!”— Thus spake Zarathustra and went his way, more thoughtfully and slowly even than before: for he asked himself many things, and hardly knew what to answer. “How poor indeed is man,” thought he in his heart, “how ugly, how wheezy, how full of hidden shame! They tell me that man loveth himself. Ah, how great must that self-love be! How much contempt is opposed to it! Even this man hath loved himself, as he hath despised himself,—a great lover methinketh he is, and a great despiser. No one have I yet found who more thoroughly despised himself: even THAT is elevation. Alas, was THIS perhaps the higher man whose cry I heard? I love the great despisers. Man is something that hath to be surpassed.”—
注释摘要
查拉图斯特拉让这最丑陋的人先去与他的动物交谈，这一句看似轻巧的指引，实则暗藏着深意。他的鹰与蛇分别象征着骄傲与智慧，在整部书中一直是他最亲密的陪伴者。把它们推荐为“我们两人的正确顾问”，意味着查拉图斯特拉承认眼前这个连人形都难以辨认的存在——这个杀死上帝的凶手——与他之间有着某种隐秘的共生关系。他们共享着对怜悯的拒斥，共享着因目睹了太多人的底细而产生的厌倦…