Key Arguments

• He redefines the drive of the wisest as aiming to render beings thinkable rather than to discover a pre-given truth.
• He claims their will imposes form: beings must fit, bend, become smooth, and be subject to the spirit as mirror and image.
• He extends this to moral discourse: even when speaking of good and evil and of valuations, their drive remains will to power.
• They still want to create a world before which they can kneel, revealing a creative-constructive, not merely contemplative, motive.

Source Quotes

‘Will to truth’ you call it, you who are wisest, that which drives you and puts you in heat? Will to the thinkability of all beings: thus call your will! All beings you want first to thinkable: for you doubt with healthy suspicion whether they really are thinkable.

All beings you want first to thinkable: for you doubt with healthy suspicion whether they really are thinkable. But they shall fit and bend themselves to you! Thus your will wills it. Smooth shall they become and subject to the spirit, as its mirror and reflected image. That is your entire will, you who are wisest, as a will to power; and even when you talk of good and evil and of valuations.

Smooth shall they become and subject to the spirit, as its mirror and reflected image. That is your entire will, you who are wisest, as a will to power; and even when you talk of good and evil and of valuations. You still want to create the world before which you can kneel: that is your ultimate hope and intoxication.

That is your entire will, you who are wisest, as a will to power; and even when you talk of good and evil and of valuations. You still want to create the world before which you can kneel: that is your ultimate hope and intoxication. The unwise, of course, the people–they are like a river on which a bark drifts along: and in the bark, solemn and disguised, sit the valuations.

Key Concepts

• Will to the thinkability of all beings: thus call your will!
• But they shall fit and bend themselves to you! Thus your will wills it. Smooth shall they become and subject to the spirit, as its mirror and reflected image.
• That is your entire will, you who are wisest, as a will to power; and even when you talk of good and evil and of valuations.
• You still want to create the world before which you can kneel: that is your ultimate hope and intoxication.

Context

Opening revaluation: Zarathustra addresses the 'wisest,' recasting their will to truth as a creative-impositional will to power over thinkability and value.

Perspectives

Nietzsche

Affirms the genealogical unmasking: 'will to truth' is a sublimated will to power that legislates form and value; cognition is an active shaping, not passive mirroring.

Zarathustra

Chides the wisest for disguising their creative domination as truth-seeking and urges them to recognize their valuative power.