They did not “begloom” themselves to death—that do people fabricate! On the contrary, they—LAUGHED themselves to death once on a time!
When a jealous old God declared there was only one God, the other gods laughed and said that divinity is precisely that there are gods but no God.
- The death of GodThe old gods ended in laughter when one jealous God claimed to be the only one.
- Laughter, dance and lightnessLaughter is the means by which divinity ends, hearing 'there are Gods, but no God.'
What the critics said
Brandes summarises Zarathustra's disgust with the petty virtues that make men smaller, his being called godless, the apostasy of his former companions, and his loathing of the great city and of the State.