OF HIGHER MAN
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��In the presence of God! But now hath that God died ! Ye higher men, this God hath been your greatest danger.
Only since he hath lain in the grave, ye have arisen. Now only cometh the great noon, now only higher man becometh master!
Understood ye this word, O my brethren ? Ye are terrified. Do your hearts grow giddy ? Yawneth here an abyss for you? Barketh unto you here the hell-dog?
Up ! up ! ye higher men ! It is only now that the mount of man's future giveth birth unto anything. God hath died. Now we wish beyond-man to live.
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The most careful ask to-day : 'How is man pre- served ? ' But Zarathustra asketh as the only and first one: 'How is man surpassed?'
Beyond-man is my care ; with me, he and not man is the first and only thing. Not the neighbour, not the poorest one, not the greatest sufferer, not the best one.
O my brethren, what I can love in man, is that he is a transition and a destruction. And even in you there are many things which make me love and hope.
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