We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.

And when I lived with them, then did I live above them. Therefore did they take a dislike to me.

They want to hear nothing of any one walking above their heads; and so they put wood and earth and rubbish betwixt me and their heads.

Thus did they deafen the sound of my tread; and least have I hitherto been heard by the most learned.

All mankind’s faults and weaknesses did they put betwixt themselves and me—they call it ‘false ceiling’ in their houses.

But nevertheless I walk with my thoughts above their heads; and even should I walk on mine own errors, still would I be above them and their heads.

For men are not equal: so speaketh justice. And what I will, they may not will!

Thus spake Zarathustra.