Chapter 7 Chapter 01 "Good and Evil", "Good and Bad" (7)

The reader can already guess how easily the priestly mode of value can depart from the knightly-noble mode of value and develop in its opposite.In each of these separations there was an occasion, when the clergy and the fighters were jealous of each other and could not be reconciled.Knight-Nobility presupposes a strong physique, a radiant, abundant, unrestrained health, and the conditions for maintaining this physique and health: fighting, adventure, hunting, dancing, games, etc. All strong, free, pleasurable action.The way of value of the aristocratic priests, as we have seen, has other premises: fighting is bad for them!Priests, as we know, are the worst enemies - why do you say that?Because they are the most incompetent.Hatred that grows out of impotence is both violent and terrible, the most intelligent and the most insidious.The greatest haters in the history of the world have always been priests, and the wisest haters have always been priests—before the priestly wisdom of revenge all other wisdom pales.Without the intellect provided by such incompetents, human history would be too dull—let us take the grandest example.All actions against the "noble ones," "mighty ones," "masters," "power-holders" on earth cannot be compared with what the Jews have done in this respect: the Jews, that priestly people, deeply Knowledge need only radically re-evaluate their enemies and oppressors, that is, to atone for themselves by a most intelligent act.This is just for a priestly people, a people of the deepest priestly vindictiveness.It was the Jews who dared to persistently reverse aristocratic values ​​(good=noble=powerful=beautiful=happy=God’s favorite) and who gritted their teeth full of unfathomable hatred (the hatred of impotence) and declared that "only the suffering Only the poor, the impotent, the base are good, only the tormented, the poor, the sick, the ugly are the only good, the only pious, and only they enjoy the bliss of heaven,— On the contrary, you who are perpetually wicked, cruel, covetous, dissatisfied, godless, you too shall suffer perpetual misfortune, curse, and condemnation to hell!"  … We know, yes Who inherited this Jewish reappraisal of value.Recalling this terrible, mass-inflicted initiative, the most fundamental of all war challenges posed by the Jews, I recall that on another occasion (Beyond Good and Evil, p. 118) What was said—that the Jews started the moral slave revolt: that revolt is two thousand years old, and we are vague about it today only because it was a complete success...