Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3436

O ye higher men, YOUR distress was it that the old soothsayer foretold to me yester-morn,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2598

Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love thee, O Eternity!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1653

I am happy to see the marvels the warm sun hatcheth: tigers and palms and rattle-snakes.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1430

Like those who stand in the street and gape at the passers-by: thus do they also wait, and gape at the thoughts which others have thought.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3328

Doth not the true sage willingly walk on the crookedest paths? The evidence teacheth it, O Zarathustra,—THINE OWN evidence!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 588

Ye have too cruel eyes, and ye look wantonly towards the sufferers. Hath not your lust just disguised itself and taken the name of fellow-suffering?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 73

For ten years hast thou climbed hither unto my cave: thou wouldst have wearied of thy light and of the journey, had it not been for me, mine eagle, and my serpent.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1793

Had I ever seen so much loathing and pale horror on one countenance? He had perhaps gone to sleep? Then had the serpent crawled into his throat—there had it bitten itself fast.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1554

Thus did time pass with me, and slip by, if time there still was: what do I know thereof! But at last there happened that which awoke me.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2010

Here floweth all blood putridly and tepidly and frothily through all veins: spit on the great city, which is the great slum where all the scum frotheth together!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2357

But wherever ye would ascend with me, O my brethren, take care lest a PARASITE ascend with you!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1342

All evil do I accredit to thee: therefore do I desire of thee the good.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1480

Thus did the sea give a stone to the hungry one. And they themselves may well originate from the sea.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 218

With the creators, the reapers, and the rejoicers will I associate: the rainbow will I show them, and all the stairs to the Superman.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2913

When Zarathustra had left the ugliest man, he was chilled and felt lonesome: for much coldness and lonesomeness came over his spirit, so that even his limbs became colder thereby. When, however, he wandered on and on, uphill and down, at times past green meadows, though also sometimes over wild stony couches where formerly perhaps an impatient brook had made its bed, then he turned all at once warmer and heartier again.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 17

In his private notes on the subject the author uses the expression “Superman” (always in the singular, by-the-bye), as signifying “the most thoroughly well-constituted type,” as opposed to “modern man”; above all, however, he designates Zarathustra himself as an example of the Superman. In “Ecco Homo” he is careful to enlighten us concerning the precursors and prerequisites to the advent of this highest type, in referring to a certain passage in the “Gay Science”:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2312

“To the clean are all things clean”—thus say the people. I, however, say unto you: To the swine all things become swinish!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2780

—“Flatter not,” answered Zarathustra, still excited and frowning, “thou stage-player from the heart! Thou art false: why speakest thou—of truth!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 422

Zarathustra’s eye had perceived that a certain youth avoided him. And as he walked alone one evening over the hills surrounding the town called “The Pied Cow,” behold, there found he the youth sitting leaning against a tree, and gazing with wearied look into the valley. Zarathustra thereupon laid hold of the tree beside which the youth sat, and spake thus:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 644

Verily, a prodigy is this power of praising and blaming. Tell me, ye brethren, who will master it for me? Who will put a fetter upon the thousand necks of this animal?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1211

But ye men endow us always with your own virtues—alas, ye virtuous ones!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1723

And if all ladders henceforth fail thee, then must thou learn to mount upon thine own head: how couldst thou mount upward otherwise?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2607

If I myself am a grain of the saving salt which maketh everything in the confection-bowl mix well:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1172

Ah, that I were dark and nightly! How would I suck at the breasts of light!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2457

“O Zarathustra,” said they, “now hast thou lain thus for seven days with heavy eyes: wilt thou not set thyself again upon thy feet?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 370

Ye do not mean to slay, ye judges and sacrificers, until the animal hath bowed its head? Lo! the pale criminal hath bowed his head: out of his eye speaketh the great contempt.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1174

But I live in mine own light, I drink again into myself the flames that break forth from me.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 59

“In the winter, beneath the halcyon sky of Nice, which then looked down upon me for the first time in my life, I found the third ‘Zarathustra’—and came to the end of my task; the whole having occupied me scarcely a year. Many hidden corners and heights in the landscapes round about Nice are hallowed to me by unforgettable moments. That decisive chapter entitled ‘Old and New Tables’ was composed in the very difficult ascent from the station to Eza—that wonderful Moorish village in the rocks.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 595

We offered that guest harbour and heart: now it dwelleth with us—let it stay as long as it will!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2069

Verily, it will be my death yet—to choke with laughter when I see asses drunken, and hear night-watchmen thus doubt about God.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1499

To fathom this mystery did I go o’er the sea; and I have seen the truth naked, verily! barefooted up to the neck.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2995

It persuadeth me, I know not how, it toucheth me inwardly with a caressing hand, it constraineth me. Yea, it constraineth me, so that my soul stretcheth itself out:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 91

“Give them nothing,” said the saint. “Take rather part of their load, and carry it along with them—that will be most agreeable unto them: if only it be agreeable unto thee!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3655

I suggest that the last verse in this paragraph strongly confirms the view that Nietzsche’s teaching was always meant by him to be esoteric and for higher man alone.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1510

And this do I say also to the o’erthrowers of statues: It is certainly the greatest folly to throw salt into the sea, and statues into the mud.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1227

“The sun hath been long set,” said he at last, “the meadow is damp, and from the forest cometh coolness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2668

“Thou ill announcer,” said Zarathustra at last, “that is a cry of distress, and the cry of a man; it may come perhaps out of a black sea. But what doth human distress matter to me! My last sin which hath been reserved for me,—knowest thou what it is called?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 407

Ye look aloft when ye long for exaltation; and I look downward because I am exalted.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3670

This belief in faith, if one can so express it without seeming tautological, has certainly been restored to them, and in the first flood of their enthusiasm they use it by bowing down and worshipping an ass! When writing this passage, Nietzsche was obviously thinking of the accusations which were levelled at the early Christians by their pagan contemporaries.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2901

The God who beheld everything, AND ALSO MAN: that God had to die! Man cannot ENDURE it that such a witness should live.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 728

Then answered me the old woman: “Many fine things hath Zarathustra said, especially for those who are young enough for them.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3620

As a boy and a youth Nietzsche had shown such a remarkable gift for music that it had been a question at one time whether he should not perhaps give up everything else in order to develop this gift, but he became a scholar notwithstanding, although he never entirely gave up composing, and playing the piano. While still in his teens, he became acquainted with Wagner’s music and grew passionately fond of it.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2599

If ever a breath hath come to me of the creative breath, and of the heavenly necessity which compelleth even chances to dance star-dances:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2413

The good MUST crucify him who deviseth his own virtue! That IS the truth!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3057

For me, that is to say, for the inexorable which is now silent in me, but will not always be silent. And if ye appertain to me, still it is not as my right arm.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 970

Woe unto all loving ones who have not an elevation which is above their pity!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2260

O my brethren, he who is a firstling is ever sacrificed. Now, however, are we firstlings!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 6

“I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3220

“Of TRUTH the wooer? Thou?”—so taunted they— “Nay! Merely poet! A brute insidious, plundering, grovelling, That aye must lie, That wittingly, wilfully, aye must lie: For booty lusting, Motley masked, Self-hidden, shrouded, Himself his booty— HE—of truth the wooer? Nay! Mere fool! Mere poet! Just motley speaking, From mask of fool confusedly shouting, Circumambling on fabricated word-bridges, On motley rainbow-arches, ‘Twixt the spurious heavenly, And spurious earthly, Round us roving, round us soaring,— MERE FOOL! MERE POET!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 931

But to man doth it ever impel me anew, my fervent creative will; thus impelleth it the hammer to the stone.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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