Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 599
Ah! there are too many depths for all anchorites. Therefore, do they long so much for a friend, and for his elevation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1751
—For ye dislike to grope at a thread with cowardly hand; and where ye can DIVINE, there do ye hate to CALCULATE—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 820
Ye constrain all things to flow towards you and into you, so that they shall flow back again out of your fountain as the gifts of your love.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2922
—His great affliction: that, however, is at present called DISGUST. Who hath not at present his heart, his mouth and his eyes full of disgust? Thou also! Thou also! But behold these kine!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3574
This, like the first part of “The Soothsayer”, is obviously a reference to the Schopenhauerian Pessimism.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2195
Man is difficult to discover, and unto himself most difficult of all; often lieth the spirit concerning the soul. So causeth the spirit of gravity.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2860
—And again did Zarathustra’s feet run through mountains and forests, and his eyes sought and sought, but nowhere was he to be seen whom they wanted to see—the sorely distressed sufferer and crier. On the whole way, however, he rejoiced in his heart and was full of gratitude. “What good things,” said he, “hath this day given me, as amends for its bad beginning! What strange interlocutors have I found!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3337
Then, however, did it come to pass that Zarathustra, astonished at such merely roguish answers, jumped back to the door of his cave, and turning towards all his guests, cried out with a strong voice:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3660
A very important principle in Nietzsche’s philosophy is enunciated in the first verse of this paragraph. “The higher its type, always the seldomer doth a thing succeed” (see page 82 of “Beyond Good and Evil”). Those who, like some political economists, talk in a business-like way about the terrific waste of human life and energy, deliberately overlook the fact that the waste most to be deplored usually occurs among higher individuals.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1206
Of late did I gaze into thine eye, O Life! And into the unfathomable did I there seem to sink.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1975
But the clear, the honest, the transparent—these are for me the wisest silent ones: in them, so PROFOUND is the depth that even the clearest water doth not—betray it.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1337
But precisely to the hero is BEAUTY the hardest thing of all. Unattainable is beauty by all ardent wills.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 136
I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1929
I am Zarathustra the godless: where do I find mine equal? And all those are mine equals who give unto themselves their Will, and divest themselves of all submission.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 32
How he longed, in those days, for the ideal friend who would thoroughly understand him, to whom he would be able to say all, and whom he imagined he had found at various periods in his life from his earliest youth onwards. Now, however, that the way he had chosen grew ever more perilous and steep, he found nobody who could follow him: he therefore created a perfect friend for himself in the ideal form of a majestic philosopher, and made this creation the preacher of his gospel to the world.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1551
Keys did I carry, the rustiest of all keys; and I knew how to open with them the most creaking of all gates.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1807
For whatever happiness is still on its way ‘twixt heaven and earth, now seeketh for lodging a luminous soul: WITH HAPPINESS hath all light now become stiller.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1440
And when I lived with them, then did I live above them. Therefore did they take a dislike to me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3673
Now, with regard to the actual service and Ass-Festival, no reader who happens to be acquainted with the religious history of the Middle Ages will fail to see the allusion here to the asinaria festa which were by no means uncommon in France, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1476
Ghost-breathing and ghost-whisking, seemeth to me all the jingle-jangling of their harps; what have they known hitherto of the fervour of tones!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1148
In the wilderness have ever dwelt the conscientious, the free spirits, as lords of the wilderness; but in the cities dwell the well-foddered, famous wise ones—the draught-beasts.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3323
“There is something therein,” said the spiritually conscientious one, and put his finger to his nose, “there is something in this spectacle which even doeth good to my conscience.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 444
Thy wild dogs want liberty; they bark for joy in their cellar when thy spirit endeavoureth to open all prison doors.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2836
“Let him go, he is gone. And though it honoureth thee that thou speakest only in praise of this dead one, yet thou knowest as well as I WHO he was, and that he went curious ways.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3349
Meanwhile one after another had gone out into the open air, and into the cool, thoughtful night; Zarathustra himself, however, led the ugliest man by the hand, that he might show him his night-world, and the great round moon, and the silvery water-falls near his cave. There they at last stood still beside one another; all of them old people, but with comforted, brave hearts, and astonished in themselves that it was so well with them on earth; the mystery of the night, however, came nigher and nigher to their hearts. And anew Zarathustra thought to himself: “Oh, how well do they now please me, these higher men!”—but he did not say it aloud, for he respected their happiness and their silence.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 571
What we recognise in a man, we also irritate in him. Therefore be on your guard against the small ones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2022
What was it that first made thee grunt? Because no one sufficiently FLATTERED thee:—therefore didst thou seat thyself beside this filth, that thou mightest have cause for much grunting,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2847
He was also indistinct. How he raged at us, this wrath-snorter, because we understood him badly! But why did he not speak more clearly?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2173
My stomach—is surely an eagle’s stomach? For it preferreth lamb’s flesh. Certainly it is a bird’s stomach.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 775
Beyond yourselves shall ye love some day! Then LEARN first of all to love. And on that account ye had to drink the bitter cup of your love.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3643
At least the bars keep him in a place of rest; a place of confinement, at its worst, is real. “Beware lest in the end a narrow faith capture thee,” says Zarathustra, “for now everything that is narrow and fixed seduceth and tempteth thee.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2209
—To flicker like small flames on high masts: a small light, certainly, but a great comfort to cast-away sailors and shipwrecked ones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 601
And often with our love we want merely to overleap envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1714
I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2379
Go YOUR ways! and let the people and peoples go theirs!—gloomy ways, verily, on which not a single hope glinteth any more!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2767
The unfortunate one, also, did not seem to notice that some one was beside him; on the contrary, he continually looked around with moving gestures, like one forsaken and isolated from all the world. At last, however, after much trembling, and convulsion, and curling-himself-up, he began to lament thus:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3462
The first morality is active, creative, Dionysian. The second is passive, defensive,—to it belongs the “struggle for existence.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2573
To the rhythm of my whip shalt thou dance and cry! I forget not my whip?—Not I!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3639
In verse 26 we are vividly reminded of Herbert Spencer’s words “‘Le mariage de convenance’ is legalised prostitution.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2230
(That I may speak in parables and halt and stammer like the poets: and verily I am ashamed that I have still to be a poet!)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2039
Him who is of my type, will also the experiences of my type meet on the way: so that his first companions must be corpses and buffoons.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1109
My friends, I will not be mixed up and confounded with others.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3295
THAT do I take as the best sign: they become thankful. Not long will it be ere they devise festivals, and put up memorials to their old joys.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1048
That ye might become weary of the words “reward,” “retribution,” “punishment,” “righteous vengeance.”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2179
The ostrich runneth faster than the fastest horse, but it also thrusteth its head heavily into the heavy earth: thus is it with the man who cannot yet fly.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 573
Sawest thou not how often they became dumb when thou approachedst them, and how their energy left them like the smoke of an extinguishing fire?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 330
What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3631
Nietzsche detested the obtrusive and gushing pity that goes up to misery without a blush either on its cheek or in its heart—the pity which is only another form of self-glorification. “Thank God that I am not like thee!”—only this self-glorifying sentiment can lend a well-constituted man the impudence to SHOW his pity for the cripple and the ill-constituted.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2851
—“What do I hear!” said then the old pope, with intent ears; “O Zarathustra, thou art more pious than thou believest, with such an unbelief! Some God in thee hath converted thee to thine ungodliness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2974
Too oft, verily, did I follow close to the heels of truth: then did it kick me on the face. Sometimes I meant to lie, and behold! then only did I hit—the truth.