78 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, I
Values were only assigned unto things by man in order to maintain himself he it was who gave signifi- cance to things, a human significance. Therefore he calleth himself ' man,' i.e., the valuing one.
Valuing is creating : listen, ye who are creative ! To value is the treasure and jewel among all things valued.
Only by valuing is there value, without valuing the nut of existence would be hollow. Listen, ye who are creative !
Change of values, i.e. y change of creators ! He who is obliged to be a creator ever destroyeth.
At first people only were creators, and not till long afterwards individuals ; verily, the individual himself is the latest creation.
Once peoples hung up above them a table of good. Love that seeketh to rule, and love that seeketh to obey, together created such tables.
Older than the pleasure received from the I is the pleasure received from the herd : and as long as the good conscience is called herd, only the bad con- science saith : ' I.'
Verily, that cunning, unloving I that seeketh its own profit in the profit of many : that is not the origin of the herd, but its destruction.
The loving and creative, they have always been the creators of good and evil. The flame of love and the flame of wrath glow in the names of all virtues.
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