First Part · XVII. The Way of the Creating One

Go with love and tears

With thy love, go into thine isolation, my brother, and with thy creating; and late only will justice limp after thee.

With my tears, go into thine isolation, my brother. I love him who seeketh to create beyond himself, and thus succumbeth.—

Thus spake Zarathustra.

Zarathustra sends his brother into isolation with love, creating and his own tears. He says he loves whoever seeks to create beyond himself and so goes under.

Creation and the creatorZarathustra loves the one who creates beyond himself and perishes by it.
SolitudeHe sends the brother into isolation with love and creating, and justice will come late.

Commentary on this chapter

What the critics said

Anthony M. Ludovici, Notes on Thus Spake Zarathustra (1909)

Freedom not an end in itselfAnthony M. Ludovici · Notes on Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1909interpretation

Ludovici argues that in 'Old and New Tables' freedom receives its death-blow as a general desideratum: Nietzsche held freedom dangerous in unworthy hands, asking 'free for what?' and requiring that one first be such as can will.