with the pitiful? And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the pitiful?
Woe to all loving ones who have not an elevation which is above their pity!
Thus spoke the devil to me, once on a time: "Even God has his hell: it is his love for man."
And lately, did I hear him say these words: "God is dead: of his pity for man has God died."-
So be you warned against pity: from thence there yet comes to men a heavy cloud! I understand weather-signs!
But attend also to this word: All great love is above all its pity: for it seeks- to create what is loved!
"Myself do I offer to my love, and my neighbor as myself"- such is the language of all creators.
All creators, however, are hard.-
Thus spoke Zarathustra.
26. The Priests
AND one day Zarathustra made a sign to his disciples and spoke these words to them:
"Here are priests: but although they are my enemies, pass them quietly and with sleeping swords!
Even among them there are heroes; many of them have suffered too much:- so they want to make others suffer.
Bad enemies are they: nothing is more revengeful than their meekness. And readily does he soil himself who touches them.
