 | Thus Spake Zarathustra |  |
26.
O my brethren! With whom lieth the greatest danger to the whole human future? Is it not with the good and just?-
-As those who say and feel in their hearts: "We already know what is good and just, we possess it also; woe to those who still seek thereafter!
And whatever harm the wicked may do, the harm of the good is the harmfulest harm!
And whatever harm the world-maligners may do, the harm of the good is the harmfulest harm!
O my brethren, into the hearts of the good and just looked some one once on a time, who said: "They are the Pharisees." But people did not understand him.
The good and just themselves were not free to understand him; their spirit was imprisoned in their good conscience. The stupidity of the good is unfathomably wise.
It is the truth, however, that the good must be Pharisees-they have no choice!
The good must crucify him who deviseth his own virtue! That is the truth!
The second one, however, who discovered their country-the country, heart and soil of the good and just,-it was he who asked: "Whom do they hate most?"
The creator, hate they most, him who breaketh the tables and old values, the breaker,-him they call the law-breaker.
For the good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end:-
-They crucify him who writeth new values on new tables, they sacrifice unto themselves the future-they crucify the whole human future!
The good-they have always been the beginning of the end.-
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