No one has ever asked me what the name "Zarathustra" means to me, the first immoralist in history, even though they should, since it is diametrically opposed to what the unique and unparalleled historical presence of this Persian signifies.

Zarathustra was the first to understand that the driving force of all humanity is the struggle between good and evil. The elevation of ethics to a metaphysical entity, specifically a power, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] He had the exclusive responsibility for this disastrous mistake, the invention of ethics. That is why he must be the first to recognize it. [...]

His doctrine, and only his doctrine, considers honesty to be the highest virtue, in contrast to the cowardice of the "idealist" who puts it aside in the face of reality [...]

Am I clear? Overcoming ethics from within oneself, with honesty as the weapon, overcoming the moralist from within himself, by transforming into his opposite - that is, into me - that is what I mean every time I pronounce the name Zarathustra."

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE