Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 289
Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2641
—The best bait, as huntsmen and fishermen require it. For if the world be as a gloomy forest of animals, and a pleasure-ground for all wild huntsmen, it seemeth to me rather—and preferably—a fathomless, rich sea;
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 377
And thou, red judge, if thou would say audibly all thou hast done in thought, then would every one cry: “Away with the nastiness and the virulent reptile!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1860
And oft have I longed to pin them fast with the jagged gold-wires of lightning, that I might, like the thunder, beat the drum upon their kettle-bellies:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3448
“Thus Spake Zarathustra” is taken home; the reader, who perchance may know no more concerning Nietzsche than a magazine article has told him, tries to read it and, understanding less than half he reads, probably never gets further than the second or third part,—and then only to feel convinced that Nietzsche himself was “rather hazy” as to what he was talking about. Such chapters as “The Child with the Mirror”, “In the Happy Isles”, “The Grave-Song,” “Immaculate Perception,” “The Stillest Hour”, “The Seven Seals”, and many others, are almost utterly devoid of meaning to all those who do not know something of Nietzsche’s life, his aims and his friendships.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2289
—Abandoned to the favour, the spirit and the madness of every generation that cometh, and reinterpreteth all that hath been as its bridge!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 688
Injustice and filth cast they at the lonesome one: but, my brother, if thou wouldst be a star, thou must shine for them none the less on that account!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3503
Nietzsche was not an iconoclast from choice. Those who hastily class him with the anarchists (or the Progressivists of the last century) fail to understand the high esteem in which he always held both law and discipline. In verse 41 of this most decisive discourse he truly explains his position when he says: “...he who hath to be a creator in good and evil—verily he hath first to be a destroyer, and break values in pieces.” This teaching in regard to self-control is evidence enough of his reverence for law.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2531
O my soul, there is nowhere a soul which could be more loving and more comprehensive and more extensive! Where could future and past be closer together than with thee?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2984
To such unsettled ones as thou, seemeth at last even a prisoner blessed. Didst thou ever see how captured criminals sleep? They sleep quietly, they enjoy their new security.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3648
“Ye higher men, think ye that I am here to put right what ye have put wrong? Or that I wished henceforth to make snugger couches for you sufferers? Or show you restless, miswandering, misclimbing ones new and easier footpaths?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1663
And ye wise and knowing ones, ye would flee from the solar-glow of the wisdom in which the Superman joyfully batheth his nakedness!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 497
In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another. I know you.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2689
Shouldst thou however find honey therein, well! just lick it up, thou growling bear, and sweeten thy soul! For in the evening we want both to be in good spirits;
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 897
Yea, ye also, my friends, will be alarmed by my wild wisdom; and perhaps ye will flee therefrom, along with mine enemies.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2410
O my brethren, into the hearts of the good and just looked some one once on a time, who said: “They are the Pharisees.” But people did not understand him.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3352
And that I testify so much is still not enough for me. It is worth while living on the earth: one day, one festival with Zarathustra, hath taught me to love the earth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2050
And verily, thou choosest the hour well: for just now do the nocturnal birds again fly abroad. The hour hath come for all light-dreading people, the vesper hour and leisure hour, when they do not—“take leisure.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2969
With thee have I pushed into all the forbidden, all the worst and the furthest: and if there be anything of virtue in me, it is that I have had no fear of any prohibition.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 215
And thou, my first companion, rest in peace! Well have I buried thee in thy hollow tree; well have I hid thee from the wolves.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3109
In that ye have despised, ye higher men, that maketh me hope. For the great despisers are the great reverers.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3649
“Nay! Nay! Three times nay! Always more, always better ones of your type shall succumb—for ye shall always have it worse and harder.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 554
Flee, my friend, into thy solitude: I see thee stung all over by the poisonous flies. Flee thither, where a rough, strong breeze bloweth!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1767
Courage is the best slayer: courage slayeth also fellow-suffering. Fellow-suffering, however, is the deepest abyss: as deeply as man looketh into life, so deeply also doth he look into suffering.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3110
In that ye have despaired, there is much to honour. For ye have not learned to submit yourselves, ye have not learned petty policy.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 358
All thy passions in the end became virtues, and all thy devils angels.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2456
At last, after seven days, Zarathustra raised himself upon his couch, took a rosy apple in his hand, smelt it and found its smell pleasant. Then did his animals think the time had come to speak unto him.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3354
Thus spake the ugliest man; it was not, however, far from midnight. And what took place then, think ye? As soon as the higher men heard his question, they became all at once conscious of their transformation and convalescence, and of him who was the cause thereof: then did they rush up to Zarathustra, thanking, honouring, caressing him, and kissing his hands, each in his own peculiar way; so that some laughed and some wept.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3229
Alas, to all free spirits who are not on their guard against SUCH magicians! It is all over with their freedom: thou teachest and temptest back into prisons,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1989
Let them sympathise with me and sigh with me on account of my chilblains: “At the ice of knowledge will he yet FREEZE TO DEATH!”—so they mourn.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 179
“Go on, halt-foot,” cried his frightful voice, “go on, lazy-bones, interloper, sallow-face!—lest I tickle thee with my heel! What dost thou here between the towers? In the tower is the place for thee, thou shouldst be locked up; to one better than thyself thou blockest the way!”—And with every word he came nearer and nearer the first one.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2144
Voluptuousness:—but I will have hedges around my thoughts, and even around my words, lest swine and libertine should break into my gardens!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3338
“O ye wags, all of you, ye buffoons! Why do ye dissemble and disguise yourselves before me!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 948
And when we learn better to enjoy ourselves, then do we unlearn best to give pain unto others, and to contrive pain.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 877
Lost are my friends; the hour hath come for me to seek my lost ones!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1576
Thus spake Zarathustra. Then did he gaze long into the face of the disciple who had been the dream-interpreter, and shook his head.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 411
Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1514
Thus spake I before the fire-dog: then did he interrupt me sullenly, and asked: “Church? What is that?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 297
A man was he, and only a poor fragment of a man and ego. Out of mine own ashes and glow it came unto me, that phantom. And verily, it came not unto me from the beyond!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3021
Thereupon Zarathustra rushed forward to his cave, and behold! what a spectacle awaited him after that concert! For there did they all sit together whom he had passed during the day: the king on the right and the king on the left, the old magician, the pope, the voluntary beggar, the shadow, the intellectually conscientious one, the sorrowful soothsayer, and the ass; the ugliest man, however, had set a crown on his head, and had put round him two purple girdles,—for he liked, like all ugly ones, to disguise himself and play the handsome person. In the midst, however, of that sorrowful company stood Zarathustra’s eagle, ruffled and disquieted, for it had been called upon to answer too much for which its pride had not any answer; the wise serpent however hung round its neck.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2067
—Thus spake to each other the two old night-watchmen and light-scarers, and tooted thereupon sorrowfully on their horns: so did it happen yester-night at the garden-wall.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3339
How the hearts of all of you convulsed with delight and wickedness, because ye had at last become again like little children—namely, pious,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1423
A scholar am I still to the children, and also to the thistles and red poppies. Innocent are they, even in their wickedness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 900
Now runneth she foolishly in the arid wilderness, and seeketh and seeketh the soft sward—mine old, wild wisdom!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2228
And oft did it carry me off and up and away and in the midst of laughter; then flew I quivering like an arrow with sun-intoxicated rapture:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2681
Cease to splash THEREON, thou rain-cloud of the forenoon! Do I not already stand here wet with thy misery, and drenched like a dog?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1449
Is my experience but of yesterday? It is long ago that I experienced the reasons for mine opinions.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 355
Once hadst thou passions and calledst them evil. But now hast thou only thy virtues: they grew out of thy passions.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2045
“We have again become pious”—so do those apostates confess; and some of them are still too pusillanimous thus to confess.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2225
On their great grave-highway did I seat myself, and even beside the carrion and vultures—and I laughed at all their bygone and its mellow decaying glory.