Menu
Language
EnglishPolish
The book read aloud
Live voiceRecordings
Footnotes
ShownHidden
You
Sign in with Google
About
Thus Spake ZarathustraIdeasLibrary
First Part · XV. The Thousand and One Goals

Valuing is creating

Read in the book →

Valuing is creating: hear it, ye creating ones! Valuation itself is the treasure and jewel of the valued things.

Zarathustra calls on creators to hear that valuation is creation.

Commentary on this chapter

What the critics said

All morality is expediencyH. L. Mencken · The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, 1908interpretation

Mencken argues, citing Zarathustra's account of the tables of many peoples, that every moral code is a changing expression of a people's expediency and will to power, that a people's god merely reflects its current ideas, and that the Ten Commandments are no more immutable than acts of Parliament.

All morality is expediencyH. L. Mencken · The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, 1908interpretation

Mencken argues, citing Zarathustra's account of the tables of many peoples, that every moral code is a changing expression of a people's expediency and will to power, that a people's god merely reflects its current ideas, and that the Ten Commandments are no more immutable than acts of Parliament.

Morality as means to power; modern goallessnessAnthony M. Ludovici · Notes on Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1909interpretation

Ludovici says that 'The Thousand and One Goals' opens Zarathustra's doctrine of moral relativity, declaring all morality a means to power, with verses on the Greeks, Persians, Jews and Germans, and that its close diagnoses the root of modern nihilism: man has no goal.