Before Sunrise
For all things
are baptized at the font of eternity,
and beyond good and evil;
good and evil themselves, however,
are but fugitive shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy
When I teach that ‘above all things there stands the heaven of chance,
the heaven of innocence, the heaven of hazard, the heaven of wantonness’.
‘Of Hazard’—
that is the oldest nobility in the world;
that I gave back to all things;
I emancipated them from the bondage of purpose…..
A little wisdom is indeed possible;
but this blessed security I have found in all things,
that they prefer —-
to dance on the feet of chance
O heaven above me! You pure, you lofty heaven!
This is now your purity to me—
that there is no eternal reason-spider and reason-cobweb—
You are to me a dancing-floor for divine chances,
you are to me a table of the Gods, for divine dice and dice-players!
—excerpt Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 162 by Friedrich Nietzsche
Who has not wakened before dawn realizing that sleep will not return and one might as well rise and begin the day? These meditations came to Nietzsche in the early morning before the light of day. We can easily be blinded by the light of day. There are things which one cannot “see” in the light.
…but my word says: ‘Suffer the chance to come to me; as innocent as a little child!’ p 170