 | Thus Spake Zarathustra |  |
15.
Such sayings did I hear pious backworldsmen speak to their consciences, and verily without wickedness or guile,-although there is nothing more guileful in the world, or more wicked.
"Let the world be as it is! Raise not a finger against it!"
"Let whoever will choke and stab and skin and scrape the people: raise not a finger against it! Thereby will they learn to renounce the world."
"And thine own reason-this shalt thou thyself stifle and choke; for it is a reason of this world,-thereby wilt thou learn thyself to renounce the world."-
-Shatter, shatter, O my brethren, those old tables of the pious! Tatter the maxims of the world-maligners!-
| Thus Spake Zarathustra | |