The least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a whisk, an eye-glance—LITTLE maketh up the BEST happiness. Hush!
Zarathustra takes back his old saying that little suffices for happiness, calling it blasphemy. He now sees that the gentlest and lightest things make up the best happiness.
- Affirmation (Yea-saying, amor fati)Happiness is found in the slightest things, such as a lizard's rustle, a breath or a glance.
- The last manHis old saying that little suffices for happiness is now called a blasphemy, which sets it apart from the last man's small contentment.
What the critics said
Ludovici explains that with Nietzsche man came of age at the noon of life: the gods and superstitions of our childhood withdraw, we are responsible for our actions, and having lived our morning under chance we must make our afternoon our own.