Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
V: The Moral Ideal§358 The ideal slave (the “good man”). He who cannot regard himself as a “purpose”, and who cannot give himself any aim whatsoever, instinctively honours the morality of unselfishness. Everything urges him to this morality: his prudence, his experience and his vanity. And even faith is a form of self-denial.
* * * Atavism: delightful feeling, to be able to obey unconditionally for once.
* * * Industry, modesty, benevolence, temperance, are just so many obstacles in the way of sovereign sentiments, of great ingenuity, of an heroic purpose, of noble existence for one’s self.
* * * It is not a question of going ahead (to that end all that is required is to be at best a herdsman, that is to say, the prime need of the herd), it is rather a matter of getting along alone, of being able to be another.