Part Four and Last

Ah, where in the world have greater follies happened than among the pitying? And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the pitying? Woe to all lovers who do not yet have a height that is above their pity! Thus the devil once spoke to me: “God too has his hell: that is his love of human beings.” And recently I heard him say this word: “God is dead; God died of his pity for human beings.”

Zarathustra, “On the Pitying”