A new pride taught me mine ego, and that teach I unto men: no longer to thrust one’s head into the sand of celestial things, but to carry it freely, a terrestrial head, which giveth meaning to the earth!
The ego, with all its perplexity, speaks most honestly of its being and honours the body and the earth. Zarathustra teaches a new pride and a new will: carry a terrestrial head and approve man's path.
- Fidelity to the earth and the bodyThe upright ego, the creating and evaluing measure of things, implies the body and gives the earth its meaning.
- Creation and the creatorThe valuing ego is what gives things measure and value.
- Affirmation (Yea-saying, amor fati)The new will approves the path man has followed blindly instead of slinking aside from it.