Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3661
Economy was never precisely one of nature’s leading principles. All this sentimental wailing over the larger proportion of failures than successes in human life, does not seem to take into account the fact that it is the rarest thing on earth for a highly organised being to attain to the fullest development and activity of all its functions, simply because it is so highly organised. The blind Will to Power in nature therefore stands in urgent need of direction by man.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2486
A long twilight limped on before me, a fatally weary, fatally intoxicated sadness, which spake with yawning mouth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2270
BESIDE the bad conscience hath hitherto grown all KNOWLEDGE! Break up, break up, ye discerning ones, the old tables!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1700
Then was there again spoken unto me without voice: “Thou must yet become a child, and be without shame.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1887
The same day, however, he gave his discourse on the bedwarfing virtue.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 506
A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears unto me, for now will I say unto you my word concerning the death of peoples.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 942
Verily, I like them not, the merciful ones, whose bliss is in their pity: too destitute are they of bashfulness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3469
He by no means regarded man as the highest possible being which evolution could arrive at; for though his physical development may have reached its limit, this is not the case with his mental or spiritual attributes. If the process be a fact; if things have BECOME what they are, then, he contends, we may describe no limit to man’s aspirations.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2146
Passion for power: the wicked gadfly which is mounted on the vainest peoples; the scorner of all uncertain virtue; which rideth on every horse and on every pride.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3667
By means of it, Nietzsche pays a high tribute to the honesty of the true specialist, while, in representing him as the only one who can resist the demoniacal influence of the magician’s music, he elevates him at a stroke, above all those present.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 565
Often, also, do they show themselves to thee as amiable ones. But that hath ever been the prudence of the cowardly. Yea! the cowardly are wise!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1703
Then did a laughing take place all around me. Alas, how that laughing lacerated my bowels and cut into my heart!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2380
Let there the trader rule, where all that still glittereth is—traders’ gold. It is the time of kings no longer: that which now calleth itself the people is unworthy of kings.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2052
—For a hunt after susceptible simpletons: all mouse-traps for the heart have again been set! And whenever I lift a curtain, a night-moth rusheth out of it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 776
Bitterness is in the cup even of the best love: thus doth it cause longing for the Superman; thus doth it cause thirst in thee, the creating one!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3593
He transforms the “Struggle for Existence”—the passive and involuntary condition—into the “Struggle for Power,” which is active and creative, and much more in harmony with Darwin’s own view, given above, concerning the importance of the organism itself. The change is one of such far-reaching importance that we cannot dispose of it in a breath, as a mere play upon words.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2343
Ye world-weary ones, however! Ye earth-idlers! You, shall one beat with stripes! With stripes shall one again make you sprightly limbs.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1179
A hunger ariseth out of my beauty: I should like to injure those I illumine; I should like to rob those I have gifted:—thus do I hunger for wickedness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1719
He, however, who is of my nature doth not avoid such an hour: the hour that saith unto him: Now only dost thou go the way to thy greatness! Summit and abyss—these are now comprised together!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2266
Oh, those good ones! GOOD MEN NEVER SPEAK THE TRUTH. For the spirit, thus to be good, is a malady.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 524
The state, I call it, where all are poison-drinkers, the good and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good and the bad: the state, where the slow suicide of all—is called “life.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3305
Thou goest straight and crooked ways; it concerneth thee little what seemeth straight or crooked unto us men. Beyond good and evil is thy domain. It is thine innocence not to know what innocence is.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3435
But soon there came to him his recollection, and he took in at a glance all that had taken place between yesterday and to-day. “Here is indeed the stone,” said he, and stroked his beard, “on IT sat I yester-morn; and here came the soothsayer unto me, and here heard I first the cry which I heard just now, the great cry of distress.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1789
Thereby had the dog been terrified: for dogs believe in thieves and ghosts. And when I again heard such howling, then did it excite my commiseration once more.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2916
When, however, he spied about and sought for the comforters of his lonesomeness, behold, there were kine there standing together on an eminence, whose proximity and smell had warmed his heart. The kine, however, seemed to listen eagerly to a speaker, and took no heed of him who approached. When, however, Zarathustra was quite nigh unto them, then did he hear plainly that a human voice spake in the midst of the kine, and apparently all of them had turned their heads towards the speaker.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3272
Hail! hail! to that whale, fishlike, If it thus for its guest’s convenience Made things nice!—(ye well know, Surely, my learned allusion?) Hail to its belly, If it had e’er A such loveliest oasis-belly As this is: though however I doubt about it, —With this come I out of Old-Europe, That doubt’th more eagerly than doth any Elderly married woman. May the Lord improve it! Amen!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2436
This new table, O my brethren, put I up over you: BECOME HARD!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2693
Thereupon the two kings made a halt; they smiled and looked towards the spot whence the voice proceeded, and afterwards looked into each other’s faces. “Such things do we also think among ourselves,” said the king on the right, “but we do not utter them.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1643
Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies? Where, however, pride is wounded, there groweth up something better than pride.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 514
Confusion of language of good and evil; this sign I give unto you as the sign of the state. Verily, the will to death, indicateth this sign! Verily, it beckoneth unto the preachers of death!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1681
And at last I answered, like one defiant: “Yea, I know it, but I will not speak it!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2324
“He who learneth much unlearneth all violent cravings”—that do people now whisper to one another in all the dark lanes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3073
—What would I not surrender that I might have one thing: THESE children, THIS living plantation, THESE life-trees of my will and of my highest hope!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 548
Full of clattering buffoons is the market-place,—and the people glory in their great men! These are for them the masters of the hour.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2960
But doth Zarathustra need to be frightened by his shadow? Also, methinketh that after all it hath longer legs than mine.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 756
Beyond thyself shalt thou build. But first of all must thou be built thyself, rectangular in body and soul.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2376
—Especially many of the rabble, who din your ears with noise about people and peoples.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 334
There is more sagacity in thy body than in thy best wisdom. And who then knoweth why thy body requireth just thy best wisdom?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1358
All times and peoples gaze divers-coloured out of your veils; all customs and beliefs speak divers-coloured out of your gestures.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1636
I sit at the gateway for every rogue, and ask: Who wisheth to deceive me?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 362
My brother, if thou be fortunate, then wilt thou have one virtue and no more: thus goest thou easier over the bridge.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3385
Leave me alone! Leave me alone! I am too pure for thee. Touch me not! Hath not my world just now become perfect?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 766
Worthy did this man seem, and ripe for the meaning of the earth: but when I saw his wife, the earth seemed to me a home for madcaps.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1641
And thus spake I often to myself for consolation: “Courage! Cheer up! old heart! An unhappiness hath failed to befall thee: enjoy that as thy—happiness!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3162
A folly would it be! Much, verily, doth it seem to me for such a one, if he should be the husband of one or of two or of three women.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1013
With thunder and heavenly fireworks must one speak to indolent and somnolent senses.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2274
Cometh, however, the hard winter, the stream-tamer, then learn even the wittiest distrust, and verily, not only the simpletons then say: “Should not everything—STAND STILL?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 201
The old man withdrew, but came back immediately and offered Zarathustra bread and wine. “A bad country for the hungry,” said he; “that is why I live here. Animal and man come unto me, the anchorite. But bid thy companion eat and drink also, he is wearier than thou.” Zarathustra answered: “My companion is dead; I shall hardly be able to persuade him to eat.” “That doth not concern me,” said the old man sullenly; “he that knocketh at my door must take what I offer him. Eat, and fare ye well!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2400
For the earthquake—it choketh up many wells, it causeth much languishing: but it bringeth also to light inner powers and secrets.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3575
We must be careful to separate this paragraph, in sense, from the previous four paragraphs. Nietzsche is still dealing with Pessimism here; but it is the pessimism of the hero—the man most susceptible of all to desperate views of life, owing to the obstacles that are arrayed against him in a world where men of his kind are very rare and are continually being sacrificed. It was to save this man that Nietzsche wrote.