First Part · VI. The Pale Criminal

Disgust at the good, and the railing

But this will not enter your ears; it hurteth your good people, ye tell me. But what doth it matter to me about your good people!

Many things in your good people cause me disgust, and verily, not their evil. I would that they had a madness by which they succumbed, like this pale criminal!

Verily, I would that their madness were called truth, or fidelity, or justice: but they have their virtue in order to live long, and in wretched self-complacency.

I am a railing alongside the torrent; whoever is able to grasp me may grasp me! Your crutch, however, I am not.—

Thus spake Zarathustra.

Zarathustra says the good disgust him more than the evil do, and he wishes they had a madness to succumb to. He calls himself a railing beside the torrent, not a crutch.

The herd, the rabble, the many-too-manyThe 'good people' practise virtue only to live long in wretched self-complacency.
Revaluation of values (old and new tables)Zarathustra would call such madness truth, fidelity or justice, not their petty virtue.