—For higher ones, stronger ones, triumphanter ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: LAUGHING LIONS must come!
He says the guests are only a presage, and denies they are the men of great longing or the remnant of God. He waits for others, asks to hear of his children and Happy Isles, and says what he would surrender for them.
- The Superman (Übermensch)He awaits stronger, merrier, squarely built ones, his children and new beautiful race, rather than these guests.
- Teacher and disciplesHe will not descend for the last time without those he waits for.
- Creation and the creatorHe has made himself poor for the children he calls his living plantation and life-trees of his will.
What the critics said
Ludovici holds that Zarathustra's greeting confirms his thesis that the philosophy aims to give higher men the great hope, but harshly: Nietzsche would be a hard bed to higher men, making them harder, not easing their way.