And also this parable give I unto you: Not a few who meant to cast out their devil, went thereby into the swine themselves.
Zarathustra gives a parable of men who try to cast out their devil and end up entering the swine themselves.
- Love, chastity, woman and marriageForced chastity can drive a man into the very filth he tried to escape.
What the critics said
Ludovici argues that in weighing voluptuousness, lust of power and selfishness Nietzsche sought to give healthy men back innocence and a clean conscience in their desires, not to license the vulgar or the weak, and that his teaching is esoteric, meant to save higher men from compromising their genius with traditional values.