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 1 62 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, II

Only where there is life, there is will; but not will unto life, but thus I teach thee will unto power!

Many things are valued higher by living things than life itself ; but even out of valuing speaketh will unto power ! '

Thus life once taught me. And by means of that, ye wisest men, I read you the riddle of your heart.

Verily, I tell you : good and evil, which would be imperishable, do not exist ! Of themselves they must ever again surpass themselves.

With your values and words of good and evil ye exercise power, ye valuing ones. And this is your hidden love and the shining, trembling, and overflow- ing of your soul.

But a stronger power waxeth out of your values, and a new overcoming. On it there break egg and eggshell.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil verily, he must first be a destroyer, and break values into pieces.

Thus the highest evil is part of the highest good- ness. But that is creative goodness.

Let us speak thereon, ye wisest men, however bad it be. To be silent is worse ; all unuttered truths be- come poisonous.

And whatever will break on our truths, let it break ! Many a house hath yet to be built!"

Thus spake Zarathustra.

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