“ Man is a thing too imperfect for me. Love to man would be fatal to me. ”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891). copy citation
Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Source | Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
Topic | love |
Date | 1891 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated By Thomas Common |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm |
Context
“Alas, wilt thou again drag thy body thyself?”
Zarathustra answered: “I love mankind.”
“Why,” said the saint, “did I go into the forest and the desert? Was it not because I loved men far too well?
Now I love God: men, I do not love. Man is a thing too imperfect for me. Love to man would be fatal to me.”
Zarathustra answered: “What spake I of love! I am bringing gifts unto men.”
“Give them nothing,” said the saint. “Take rather part of their load, and carry it along with them—that will be most agreeable unto them:”
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