적그리스도. 敵그리스도.The Book of The Antichrist, by F. W. Nietzsche

적그리스도. 敵그리스도.The Book of The Antichrist, by F. W. Nietzsche
PREFACE
This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them
is yet alive. It is possible that they may be among those who understand
my “ Zarathustra” : how could I confound myself with those who are now
sprouting ears?―First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some
men are born posthumously.
The conditions under which any one understands me, and necessarily
understands me―I know them only too well. Even to endure my
seriousness, my passion, he must carry intellectual integrity to the verge
of hardness. He must be accustomed to living on mountain tops―and to
looking upon the wretched gabble of politics and nationalism as beneath
him. He must have become indifferent; he must never ask of the truth
whether it brings profit to him or a fatality to him.... He must have an
inclination, born of strength, for questions that no one has the courage for;
the courage for the forbidden; predestination for the labyrinth. The
experience of seven solitudes. New ears for new music. New eyes for what
is most distant. A new conscience for truths that have hitherto remained
unheard. And the will to economize in the grand manner―to hold together
his strength, his enthusiasm.... Reverence for self; love of self; absolute
freedom of self....
Very well, then! of that sort only are my readers, my true readers, my
readers foreordained: of what account are the rest?―The rest are merely
humanity.―One must make one’s self superior to humanity, in power, in
loftiness of soul,―in contempt.
FRIEDRICH W. NIETZSCHE.