《查拉图斯特拉如是说·序言》第4节
The hour when ye say: “What good is my reason! Doth it long for knowledge as the lion for his food? It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!” The hour when ye say: “What good is my virtue! As yet it hath not made me passionate. How weary I am of my good and my bad! It is all poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!” The hour when ye say: “What good is my justice! I do not see that I am fervour and fuel. The just, however, are fervour and fuel!” The hour when ye say: “What good is my pity! Is not pity the cross on which he is nailed who loveth man? But my pity is not a crucifixion.” Have ye ever spoken thus? Have ye ever cried thus? Ah! would that I had heard you crying thus! It is not your sin—it is your self-satisfaction that crieth unto heaven; your very sparingness in sin crieth unto heaven! Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the frenzy with which ye should be inoculated? Lo, I teach you the Superman: he is that lightning, he is that frenzy!— When Zarathustra had thus spoken, one of the people called out: “We have now heard enough of the rope-dancer; it is time now for us to see him!” And all the people laughed at Zarathustra. But the rope-dancer, who thought the words applied to him, began his performance.
注释摘要
查拉图斯特拉这段宣讲，是一连串追问的递进，每一问都在叩击人群内心的某道防线。他列出的是现代人最引以为傲的四样东西——理性、德性、正义、同情——然后逐样剥开，暴露它们底下那层温吞的、自我满足的底色。 他说，你们什么时候这样问过自己：我的理性有什么好？它可曾像狮子渴求食物那样渴求过知识？狮子的饥饿是生命本身的驱力，是撕咬、吞食、不问代价的激情，而你们的理性不过…