Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 322
Hearken rather, my brethren, to the voice of the healthy body; it is a more upright and pure voice.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3042
At thy tree, O Zarathustra, the gloomy and ill-constituted also refresh themselves; at thy look even the wavering become steady and heal their hearts.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2878
—Thou hast divined how the man feeleth who killed HIM. Stay! And if thou wilt go, thou impatient one, go not the way that I came. THAT way is bad.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2009
By all that is luminous and strong and good in thee, O Zarathustra! Spit on this city of shopmen and return back!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1968
A good roguish thing is also the long silence, and to look, like the winter-sky, out of a clear, round-eyed countenance:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 537
There, where the state CEASETH—pray look thither, my brethren! Do ye not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the Superman?—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2781
Thou peacock of peacocks, thou sea of vanity; WHAT didst thou represent before me, thou evil magician; WHOM was I meant to believe in when thou wailedst in such wise?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 277
And what were the ten reconciliations, and the ten truths, and the ten laughters with which my heart enjoyed itself?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 984
In fetters of false values and fatuous words! Oh, that some one would save them from their Saviour!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2561
I dance after thee, I follow even faint traces lonely. Where art thou? Give me thy hand! Or thy finger only!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1776
“Everything straight lieth,” murmured the dwarf, contemptuously. “All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3158
Be not virtuous beyond your powers! And seek nothing from yourselves opposed to probability!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2023
—That thou mightest have cause for much VENGEANCE! For vengeance, thou vain fool, is all thy foaming; I have divined thee well!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3141
And when truth hath once triumphed there, then ask yourselves with good distrust: “What strong error hath fought for it?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 483
I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 557
Innumerable are the small and pitiable ones; and of many a proud structure, rain-drops and weeds have been the ruin.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 887
Forsooth, there is a lake in me, sequestered and self-sufficing; but the stream of my love beareth this along with it, down—to the sea!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2577
And even should we not love each other from the bottom of our hearts,—must we then have a grudge against each other if we do not love each other perfectly?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2875
They persecute me: now art THOU my last refuge. NOT with their hatred, NOT with their bailiffs;—Oh, such persecution would I mock at, and be proud and cheerful!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1537
All our fountains have dried up, even the sea hath receded. All the ground trieth to gape, but the depth will not swallow!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 99
With singing, weeping, laughing, and mumbling do I praise the God who is my God. But what dost thou bring us as a gift?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1259
And now hath he struck up an awful, melancholy air; alas, he tooted as a mournful horn to mine ear!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 876
Mine enemies have grown powerful and have disfigured the likeness of my doctrine, so that my dearest ones have to blush for the gifts that I gave them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 829
Similes, are all names of good and evil; they do not speak out, they only hint. A fool who seeketh knowledge from them!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3231
Thus spake the conscientious one; the old magician, however, looked about him, enjoying his triumph, and on that account put up with the annoyance which the conscientious one caused him. “Be still!” said he with modest voice, “good songs want to re-echo well; after good songs one should be long silent.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2409
And whatever harm the world-maligners may do, the harm of the good is the harmfulest harm!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 774
But even your best love is only an enraptured simile and a painful ardour. It is a torch to light you to loftier paths.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3485
German philosophers, thanks to Schopenhauer, have earned rather a bad name for their views on women. It is almost impossible for one of them to write a line on the subject, however kindly he may do so, without being suspected of wishing to open a crusade against the fair sex.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1203
And with tears in his eyes shall he ask you for a dance; and I myself will sing a song to his dance:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 817
Verily, I divine you well, my disciples: ye strive like me for the bestowing virtue. What should ye have in common with cats and wolves?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 546
To upset—that meaneth with him to prove. To drive mad—that meaneth with him to convince. And blood is counted by him as the best of all arguments.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2227
Thus did my wise longing, born in the mountains, cry and laugh in me; a wild wisdom, verily!—my great pinion-rustling longing.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1826
For frost and winter I now longed: “Oh, that frost and winter would again make me crack and crunch!” sighed I:—then arose icy mist out of me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1763
But there is something in me which I call courage: it hath hitherto slain for me every dejection. This courage at last bade me stand still and say: “Dwarf! Thou! Or I!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2175
And especially that I am hostile to the spirit of gravity, that is bird-nature:—verily, deadly hostile, supremely hostile, originally hostile! Oh, whither hath my hostility not flown and misflown!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3114
These masters of to-day—surpass them, O my brethren—these petty people: THEY are the Superman’s greatest danger!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3027
Forgive me, however, ye despairing ones, for speaking such trivial words before you, unworthy, verily, of such guests! But ye do not divine WHAT maketh my heart wanton:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2815
Thus cursed Zarathustra impatiently in his heart, and considered how with averted look he might slip past the black man. But behold, it came about otherwise. For at the same moment had the sitting one already perceived him; and not unlike one whom an unexpected happiness overtaketh, he sprang to his feet, and went straight towards Zarathustra.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2441
—That I may one day be ready and ripe in the great noontide: ready and ripe like the glowing ore, the lightning-bearing cloud, and the swelling milk-udder:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 640
Older is the pleasure in the herd than the pleasure in the ego: and as long as the good conscience is for the herd, the bad conscience only saith: ego.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 475
But they want to be rid of life; what care they if they bind others still faster with their chains and gifts!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1493
“Behold!” said the old helmsman, “there goeth Zarathustra to hell!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3013
(But then did he fall asleep anew, and his soul spake against him and defended itself, and lay down again)—“Leave me alone! Hush! Hath not the world just now become perfect? Oh, for the golden round ball!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2985
Beware lest in the end a narrow faith capture thee, a hard, rigorous delusion! For now everything that is narrow and fixed seduceth and tempteth thee.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1627
“But why doth Zarathustra speak otherwise unto us than unto his disciples?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2056
Or they sit all day at swamps with angle-rods, and on that account think themselves PROFOUND; but whoever fisheth where there are no fish, I do not even call him superficial!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1673
Yesterday towards evening there spake unto me MY STILLEST HOUR: that is the name of my terrible mistress.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3379
Sweet lyre! Sweet lyre! I love thy tone, thy drunken, ranunculine tone!—how long, how far hath come unto me thy tone, from the distance, from the ponds of love!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2854
Nigh unto thee, though thou professest to be the ungodliest one, I feel a hale and holy odour of long benedictions: I feel glad and grieved thereby.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2418
O my brethren, have ye also understood this word? And what I once said of the “last man”?—