《查拉图斯特拉如是说·第四部》第34节
‘Doth Zarathustra still live? It is no longer worth while to live, everything is indifferent, everything is useless: or else—we must live with Zarathustra!’ ‘Why doth he not come who hath so long announced himself?’ thus do many people ask; ‘hath solitude swallowed him up? Or should we perhaps go to him?’ Now doth it come to pass that solitude itself becometh fragile and breaketh open, like a grave that breaketh open and can no longer hold its dead. Everywhere one seeth resurrected ones. Now do the waves rise and rise around thy mountain, O Zarathustra. And however high be thy height, many of them must rise up to thee: thy boat shall not rest much longer on dry ground. And that we despairing ones have now come into thy cave, and already no longer despair:—it is but a prognostic and a presage that better ones are on the way to thee,— —For they themselves are on the way to thee, the last remnant of God among men—that is to say, all the men of great longing, of great loathing, of great satiety, —All who do not want to live unless they learn again to HOPE—unless they learn from thee, O Zarathustra, the GREAT hope!” Thus spake the king on the right, and seized the hand of Zarathustra in order to kiss it; but Zarathustra checked his veneration, and stepped back frightened, fleeing as it were, silently and suddenly into the far distance. After a little while, however, he was again at home with his guests, looked at them with clear scrutinising eyes, and said: “My guests, ye higher men, I will speak plain language and plainly with you. It is not for YOU that I have waited here in these mountains.” (“‘Plain language and plainly?’ Good God!” said here the king on the left to himself; “one seeth he doth not know the good Occidentals, this sage out of the Orient! But he meaneth ‘blunt language and bluntly’—well! That is not the worst taste in these days!”) “Ye may, verily, all of you be higher men,” continued Zarathustra; “but for me—ye are neither high enough, nor strong enough. For me, that is to say, for the inexorable which is now silent in me, but will not always be silent. And if ye appertain to me, still it is not as my right arm. For he who himself standeth, like you, on sickly and tender legs, wisheth above all to be TREATED INDULGENTLY, whether he be conscious of it or hide it from himself. My arms and my legs, however, I do not treat indulgently, I DO NOT TREAT MY WARRIORS INDULGENTLY: how then could ye be fit for MY warfare?
注释摘要
这里是第四部的转折时刻。查拉图斯特拉经历了漫长的一日，在山上先后遇见了形形色色的来访者，最终返回洞穴，发现这些人竟然已经聚集在他家中。右首的国王代表众人向他致辞，这段话表面上是欢迎和赞美，实则透露出一种危险的东西：他们把查拉图斯特拉当成了救世主。 国王说：人们四处询问查拉图斯特拉是否还活着，因为如果没有他，一切都不再有价值。这番话听上去像是忠诚的追随者在表…