Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2789
Thus didst thou whitewash thy lie before me when thou saidst: ‘I did so ONLY for amusement!’ There was also SERIOUSNESS therein, thou ART something of a penitent-in-spirit!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1754
A path which ascended daringly among boulders, an evil, lonesome path, which neither herb nor shrub any longer cheered, a mountain-path, crunched under the daring of my foot.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2590
—Blessed, however, is he who is thus charged! And verily, long must he hang like a heavy tempest on the mountain, who shall one day kindle the light of the future!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1427
Freedom do I love, and the air over fresh soil; rather would I sleep on ox-skins than on their honours and dignities.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2479
Such accusers of life—them life overcometh with a glance of the eye. “Thou lovest me?” saith the insolent one; “wait a little, as yet have I no time for thee.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 744
Devise me, then, the love which not only beareth all punishment, but also all guilt!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1900
Ask my foot if their lauding and luring strains please it! Verily, to such measure and ticktack, it liketh neither to dance nor to stand still.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3121
“Man must become better and eviler”—so do _I_ teach. The evilest is necessary for the Superman’s best.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 321
But it is a sickly thing to them, and gladly would they get out of their skin. Therefore hearken they to the preachers of death, and themselves preach backworlds.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3611
If the minor poet and philosopher has made us shy of the prophetic seriousness which characterized an Isaiah or a Jeremiah, it is surely our loss and the minor poet’s gain.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1837
Verily, distrustful am I of your insidious beauty! Like the lover am I, who distrusteth too sleek smiling.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 167
One still worketh, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 424
But the wind, which we see not, troubleth and bendeth it as it listeth. We are sorest bent and troubled by invisible hands.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1987
To one man, lonesomeness is the flight of the sick one; to another, it is the flight FROM the sick ones.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2203
Still more repugnant unto me, however, are all lickspittles; and the most repugnant animal of man that I found, did I christen “parasite”: it would not love, and would yet live by love.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3051
—All who do not want to live unless they learn again to HOPE—unless they learn from thee, O Zarathustra, the GREAT hope!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 889
Too slowly runneth all speaking for me:—into thy chariot, O storm, do I leap! And even thee will I whip with my spite!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2731
And Zarathustra went thoughtfully on, further and lower down, through forests and past moory bottoms; as it happeneth, however, to every one who meditateth upon hard matters, he trod thereby unawares upon a man. And lo, there spurted into his face all at once a cry of pain, and two curses and twenty bad invectives, so that in his fright he raised his stick and also struck the trodden one. Immediately afterwards, however, he regained his composure, and his heart laughed at the folly he had just committed.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1057
They cast their eye down into the fountain: and now glanceth up to me their odious smile out of the fountain.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3222
Or unto eagles like which fixedly, Long adown the precipice look, Adown THEIR precipice:— Oh, how they whirl down now, Thereunder, therein, To ever deeper profoundness whirling!— Then, Sudden, With aim aright, With quivering flight, On LAMBKINS pouncing, Headlong down, sore-hungry, For lambkins longing, Fierce ’gainst all lamb-spirits, Furious-fierce ’gainst all that look Sheeplike, or lambeyed, or crisp-woolly, —Grey, with lambsheep kindliness!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2819
“WHAT doth all the world know at present?” asked Zarathustra. “Perhaps that the old God no longer liveth, in whom all the world once believed?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2268
All that is called evil by the good, must come together in order that one truth may be born. O my brethren, are ye also evil enough for THIS truth?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1983
How COULD they endure my happiness, if I did not put around it accidents, and winter-privations, and bear-skin caps, and enmantling snowflakes!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2503
That thou must be the first to teach this teaching—how could this great fate not be thy greatest danger and infirmity!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 541
In the world even the best things are worthless without those who represent them: those representers, the people call great men.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1952
With warm feet and warm thoughts do I run where the wind is calm—to the sunny corner of mine olive-mount.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2669
—“PITY!” answered the soothsayer from an overflowing heart, and raised both his hands aloft—“O Zarathustra, I have come that I may seduce thee to thy last sin!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 890
Like a cry and an huzza will I traverse wide seas, till I find the Happy Isles where my friends sojourn;—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1104
In all their lamentations soundeth vengeance, in all their eulogies is maleficence; and being judge seemeth to them bliss.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2297
Let it not be your honour henceforth whence ye come, but whither ye go! Your Will and your feet which seek to surpass you—let these be your new honour!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3079
(Thus spake the soothsayer. When Zarathustra’s animals, however, heard these words, they ran away in terror. For they saw that all they had brought home during the day would not be enough to fill the one soothsayer.)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3007
—What hath befallen me: Hark! Hath time flown away? Do I not fall? Have I not fallen—hark! into the well of eternity?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 100
When Zarathustra had heard these words, he bowed to the saint and said: “What should I have to give thee! Let me rather hurry hence lest I take aught away from thee!”—And thus they parted from one another, the old man and Zarathustra, laughing like schoolboys.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2448
Unbind the fetters of thine ears: listen! For I wish to hear thee! Up! Up! There is thunder enough to make the very graves listen!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2762
“O thou strange fellow, how much doth this very evidence teach me—namely, thou thyself! And not all, perhaps, might I pour into thy rigorous ear!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3498
While writing this, Nietzsche is supposed to have been thinking of the island of Ischia which was ultimately destroyed by an earthquake. His teaching here is quite clear. He was among the first thinkers of Europe to overcome the pessimism which godlessness generally brings in its wake. He points to creating as the surest salvation from the suffering which is a concomitant of all higher life. “What would there be to create,” he asks, “if there were—Gods?” His ideal, the Superman, lends him the cheerfulness necessary to the overcoming of that despair usually attendant upon godlessness and upon the apparent aimlessness of a world without a god.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2485
The great disgust at man—IT strangled me and had crept into my throat: and what the soothsayer had presaged: “All is alike, nothing is worth while, knowledge strangleth.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 531
My brethren, will ye suffocate in the fumes of their maws and appetites! Better break the windows and jump into the open air!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1232
“Yonder is the grave-island, the silent isle; yonder also are the graves of my youth. Thither will I carry an evergreen wreath of life.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2406
O my brethren! With whom lieth the greatest danger to the whole human future? Is it not with the good and just?—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3650
In the first seven verses of this discourse, I cannot help seeing a gentle allusion to Schopenhauer’s habits as a bon-vivant. For a pessimist, be it remembered, Schopenhauer led quite an extraordinary life. He ate well, loved well, played the flute well, and I believe he smoked the best cigars. What follows is clear enough.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 121
The hour when ye say: “What good is my justice! I do not see that I am fervour and fuel. The just, however, are fervour and fuel!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1118
Good and evil, and rich and poor, and high and low, and all names of values: weapons shall they be, and sounding signs, that life must again and again surpass itself!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1698
Then was there again spoken unto me as a whispering: “It is the stillest words which bring the storm. Thoughts that come with doves’ footsteps guide the world.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1766
Courage slayeth also giddiness at abysses: and where doth man not stand at abysses! Is not seeing itself—seeing abysses?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2356
I form circles around me and holy boundaries; ever fewer ascend with me ever higher mountains: I build a mountain-range out of ever holier mountains.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 112
Once the soul looked contemptuously on the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing:—the soul wished the body meagre, ghastly, and famished. Thus it thought to escape from the body and the earth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1156
And the blindness of the blind one, and his seeking and groping, shall yet testify to the power of the sun into which he hath gazed,—did ye know that before?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1674
And thus did it happen—for everything must I tell you, that your heart may not harden against the suddenly departing one!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1003
Eagerly and with shouts drove they their flock over their foot-bridge; as if there were but one foot-bridge to the future! Verily, those shepherds also were still of the flock!