Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 544
Spirit, hath the actor, but little conscience of the spirit. He believeth always in that wherewith he maketh believe most strongly—in HIMSELF!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1457
But granting that some one did say in all seriousness that the poets lie too much: he was right—WE do lie too much.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2980
This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3596
In verses 28, 29, and 30 of the second portion of this discourse we meet with a doctrine which, at first sight, seems to be merely “le manoir a l’envers,” indeed one English critic has actually said of Nietzsche, that “Thus Spake Zarathustra” is no more than a compendium of modern views and maxims turned upside down. Examining these heterodox pronouncements a little more closely, however, we may possibly perceive their truth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1997
Seest thou not the souls hanging like limp dirty rags?—And they make newspapers also out of these rags!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 866
“DEAD ARE ALL THE GODS: NOW DO WE DESIRE THE SUPERMAN TO LIVE.”—Let this be our final will at the great noontide!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2839
He was a hidden God, full of secrecy. Verily, he did not come by his son otherwise than by secret ways. At the door of his faith standeth adultery.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1390
Also ye love the earth, and the earthly: I have divined you well!—but shame is in your love, and a bad conscience—ye are like the moon!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 533
Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the steam of these human sacrifices!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3155
Ask women: one giveth birth, not because it giveth pleasure. The pain maketh hens and poets cackle.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1580
It is, however, the smallest thing unto me since I have been amongst men, to see one person lacking an eye, another an ear, and a third a leg, and that others have lost the tongue, or the nose, or the head.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2487
“Eternally he returneth, the man of whom thou art weary, the small man”—so yawned my sadness, and dragged its foot and could not go to sleep.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2638
That I spake of sacrifices and honey-sacrifices, it was merely a ruse in talking and verily, a useful folly! Here aloft can I now speak freer than in front of mountain-caves and anchorites’ domestic animals.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2309
And he who ever “thrasheth straw,” why should he be allowed to rail at thrashing! Such a fool one would have to muzzle!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 36
In the afternoon, as often as my health permitted, I walked round the whole bay from Santa Margherita to beyond Porto Fino. This spot was all the more interesting to me, inasmuch as it was so dearly loved by the Emperor Frederick III. In the autumn of 1886 I chanced to be there again when he was revisiting this small, forgotten world of happiness for the last time.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3360
COME! COME! COME! LET US NOW WANDER! IT IS THE HOUR: LET US WANDER INTO THE NIGHT!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1625
“It is difficult to live amongst men, because silence is so difficult— especially for a babbler.”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2686
I know it well: thou wouldst fain be rid of me! Rather wouldst thou run into the forest and lay snares for evil beasts!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1110
There are those who preach my doctrine of life, and are at the same time preachers of equality, and tarantulas.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1599
“It was”: thus is the Will’s teeth-gnashing and lonesomest tribulation called. Impotent towards what hath been done—it is a malicious spectator of all that is past.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1
“Zarathustra” is my brother’s most personal work; it is the history of his most individual experiences, of his friendships, ideals, raptures, bitterest disappointments and sorrows. Above it all, however, there soars, transfiguring it, the image of his greatest hopes and remotest aims. My brother had the figure of Zarathustra in his mind from his very earliest youth: he once told me that even as a child he had dreamt of him.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1574
“Well! this hath just its time; but see to it, my disciples, that we have a good repast; and without delay! Thus do I mean to make amends for bad dreams!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3426
They still sleep in my cave; their dream still drinketh at my drunken songs. The audient ear for ME—the OBEDIENT ear, is yet lacking in their limbs.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2515
The hour hath now come for the down-goer to bless himself. Thus—ENDETH Zarathustra’s down-going.’”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 222
“They are mine animals,” said Zarathustra, and rejoiced in his heart.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 662
I teach you the friend and his overflowing heart. But one must know how to be a sponge, if one would be loved by overflowing hearts.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2617
If my virtue be a dancer’s virtue, and if I have often sprung with both feet into golden-emerald rapture:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1635
I know not you men: this gloom and consolation is often spread around me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1138
Stiff-necked and artful, like the ass, have ye always been, as the advocates of the people.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2389
Thus would I have man and woman: fit for war, the one; fit for maternity, the other; both, however, fit for dancing with head and legs.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1043
And many a one who cannot see men’s loftiness, calleth it virtue to see their baseness far too well: thus calleth he his evil eye virtue.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3665
The only one to resist the “melancholy voluptuousness” of his art, is the spiritually conscientious one—the scientific specialist of whom we read in the discourse entitled “The Leech”. He takes the harp from the magician and cries for air, while reproving the musician in the style of “The Case of Wagner”.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1495
Thus there arose some uneasiness. After three days, however, there came the story of the ship’s crew in addition to this uneasiness—and then did all the people say that the devil had taken Zarathustra. His disciples laughed, sure enough, at this talk; and one of them said even: “Sooner would I believe that Zarathustra hath taken the devil.” But at the bottom of their hearts they were all full of anxiety and longing: so their joy was great when on the fifth day Zarathustra appeared amongst them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1873
A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer—_to dance_ on the feet of chance.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3149
Do not let yourselves be imposed upon or put upon! Who then is YOUR neighbour? Even if ye act “for your neighbour”—ye still do not create for him!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3597
Regarding good and evil as purely relative values, it stands to reason that what may be bad or evil in a given man, relative to a certain environment, may actually be good if not highly virtuous in him relative to a certain other environment.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1395
That would be the dearest thing to me”—thus doth the seduced one seduce himself,—“to love the earth as the moon loveth it, and with the eye only to feel its beauty.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 452
Ah! I have known noble ones who lost their highest hope. And then they disparaged all high hopes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1217
She hath her eye, her laugh, and even her golden angle-rod: am I responsible for it that both are so alike?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2489
My sighing sat on all human graves, and could no longer arise: my sighing and questioning croaked and choked, and gnawed and nagged day and night:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2720
With those rhymes of Zarathustra the kings were delighted; the king on the right, however, said: “O Zarathustra, how well it was that we set out to see thee!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1167
But ye servants of the people, ye famous wise ones—how COULD ye go with me!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 347
To be sure, thou wouldst call it by name and caress it; thou wouldst pull its ears and amuse thyself with it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 20
He whose soul longeth to experience the whole range of hitherto recognised values and desirabilities, and to circumnavigate all the coasts of this ideal ‘Mediterranean Sea’, who, from the adventures of his most personal experience, wants to know how it feels to be a conqueror, and discoverer of the ideal—as likewise how it is with the artist, the saint, the legislator, the sage, the scholar, the devotee, the prophet, and the godly non-conformist of the old style:—requires one thing above all for that purpose, GREAT HEALTHINESS—such healthiness as one not only possesses, but also constantly acquires and must acquire, because one unceasingly sacrifices it again, and must sacrifice it!—And now, after having been long on the way in this fashion, we Argonauts of the ideal, more courageous perhaps than prudent, and often enough shipwrecked and brought to grief, nevertheless dangerously healthy, always healthy again,—it would seem as if, in recompense for it all, that we have a still undiscovered country before us, the boundaries of which no one has yet seen, a beyond to all countries and corners of the ideal known hitherto, a world so over-rich in the beautiful, the strange, the questionable, the frightful, and the divine, that our curiosity as well as our thirst for possession thereof, have got out of hand—alas!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1247
Thus spake once in a happy hour my purity: “Divine shall everything be unto me.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1133
But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs—is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 503
So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 213
Companions, the creator seeketh, and such as know how to whet their sickles. Destroyers, will they be called, and despisers of good and evil. But they are the reapers and rejoicers.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1304
Much is reckoned higher than life itself by the living one; but out of the very reckoning speaketh—the Will to Power!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2460
Did perhaps a new knowledge come to thee, a bitter, grievous knowledge? Like leavened dough layest thou, thy soul arose and swelled beyond all its bounds.—”