Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Of the Rabble Summary & Analysis

Zarathustra says that life is wonderful, but that the masses poisons the wells from which they drink. Many who think that they’ve turned away from life have, in fact, only turned away from the masses. For a long time, Zarathustra has lived as if deaf and blind, trying to avoid the masses; eventually, however, he learned how to free himself from this disgust. This is only possible in the extreme heights of solitude, where the unclean cannot reach and where one’s purity reflects back to one in the well. Solitaries orient themselves toward the future.