Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1819

—So that he may one day become my companion, a fellow-creator and fellow-enjoyer with Zarathustra:—such a one as writeth my will on my tables, for the fuller perfection of all things.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3422

“Thou great star,” spake he, as he had spoken once before, “thou deep eye of happiness, what would be all thy happiness if thou hadst not THOSE for whom thou shinest!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1956

Better even a little teeth-chattering than idol-adoration!—so willeth my nature. And especially have I a grudge against all ardent, steaming, steamy fire-idols.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2864

Blushing up to the very roots of his white hair, he turned aside his glance, and raised his foot that he might leave this ill-starred place. Then, however, became the dead wilderness vocal: for from the ground a noise welled up, gurgling and rattling, as water gurgleth and rattleth at night through stopped-up water-pipes; and at last it turned into human voice and human speech:—it sounded thus:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 294

This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction’s image and imperfect image—an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator:—thus did the world once seem to me.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3237

We SEEK different things even here aloft, ye and I. For I seek more SECURITY; on that account have I come to Zarathustra. For he is still the most steadfast tower and will—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3601

In my opinion this part is Nietzsche’s open avowal that all his philosophy, together with all his hopes, enthusiastic outbursts, blasphemies, prolixities, and obscurities, were merely so many gifts laid at the feet of higher men. He had no desire to save the world. What he wished to determine was: Who is to be master of the world? This is a very different thing.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 4

“How can one praise and glorify a nation as a whole?—Even among the Greeks, it was the INDIVIDUALS that counted.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1162

Ye are not eagles: thus have ye never experienced the happiness of the alarm of the spirit. And he who is not a bird should not camp above abysses.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2746

O happiness! O miracle! Praised be this day which enticed me into the swamp! Praised be the best, the livest cupping-glass, that at present liveth; praised be the great conscience-leech Zarathustra!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 562

Too proud art thou to kill these sweet-tooths. But take care lest it be thy fate to suffer all their poisonous injustice!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3419

Sing now yourselves the song, the name of which is “Once more,” the signification of which is “Unto all eternity!”—sing, ye higher men, Zarathustra’s roundelay!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 543

Around the devisers of new values revolveth the world:—invisibly it revolveth. But around the actors revolve the people and the glory: such is the course of things.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 974

But attend also to this word: All great love is above all its pity: for it seeketh—to create what is loved!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1797

Solve unto me the enigma that I then beheld, interpret unto me the vision of the lonesomest one!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2156

—The pliant, persuasive body, the dancer, whose symbol and epitome is the self-enjoying soul. Of such bodies and souls the self-enjoyment calleth itself “virtue.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2899

His pity knew no modesty: he crept into my dirtiest corners. This most prying, over-intrusive, over-pitiful one had to die.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2666

“Welcome hither,” said Zarathustra, “thou soothsayer of the great weariness, not in vain shalt thou once have been my messmate and guest.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1111

That they speak in favour of life, though they sit in their den, these poison-spiders, and withdrawn from life—is because they would thereby do injury.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2805

I myself, to be sure—I have as yet seen no great man. That which is great, the acutest eye is at present insensible to it. It is the kingdom of the populace.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3645

Here I think I may claim that my contention in regard to the purpose and aim of the whole of Nietzsche’s philosophy (as stated at the beginning of my Notes on Part IV.) is completely upheld.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3475

Again, “the good and just,” throughout the book, is the expression used in referring to the self-righteous of modern times,—those who are quite sure that they know all that is to be known concerning good and evil, and are satisfied that the values their little world of tradition has handed down to them, are destined to rule mankind as long as it lasts.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3634

“Their pity IS it from which I flee away,” he says—that is to say: “It is from their want of reverence and lack of shame in presence of my great misery!” The ugliest man despises himself; but Zarathustra said in his Prologue: “I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.” He therefore honours the ugliest man: sees height in his self-contempt, and invites him to join the other higher men in the cave.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1455

The disciple answered: “I believe in Zarathustra.” But Zarathustra shook his head and smiled.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 950

For in seeing the sufferer suffering—thereof was I ashamed on account of his shame; and in helping him, sorely did I wound his pride.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3461

Conflicting moral codes have been no more than the conflicting weapons of different classes of men; for in mankind there is a continual war between the powerful, the noble, the strong, and the well-constituted on the one side, and the impotent, the mean, the weak, and the ill-constituted on the other. The war is a war of moral principles. The morality of the powerful class, Nietzsche calls NOBLE- or MASTER-MORALITY; that of the weak and subordinate class he calls SLAVE-MORALITY. In the first morality it is the eagle which, looking down upon a browsing lamb, contends that “eating lamb is good.” In the second, the slave-morality, it is the lamb which, looking up from the sward, bleats dissentingly: “Eating lamb is evil.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2083

Here, however, art thou at home and house with thyself; here canst thou utter everything, and unbosom all motives; nothing is here ashamed of concealed, congealed feelings.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1513

This counsel, however, do I counsel to kings and churches, and to all that is weak with age or virtue—let yourselves be o’erthrown! That ye may again come to life, and that virtue—may come to you!—”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3050

—For they themselves are on the way to thee, the last remnant of God among men—that is to say, all the men of great longing, of great loathing, of great satiety,

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 535

Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1993

Why wouldst thou wade through this mire? Have pity upon thy foot! Spit rather on the gate of the city, and—turn back!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1201

Verily, in broad daylight did he fall asleep, the sluggard! Had he perhaps chased butterflies too much?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3460

Applying this principle to mankind, Nietzsche attacked Christian moral values. He declared them to be, like all other morals, merely an expedient for protecting a certain type of man. In the case of Christianity this type was, according to Nietzsche, a low one.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1622

And who hath taught it reconciliation with time, and something higher than all reconciliation?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 701

With my tears, go into thine isolation, my brother. I love him who seeketh to create beyond himself, and thus succumbeth.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1721

Thou goest the way to thy greatness: it must now be thy best courage that there is no longer any path behind thee!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2372

I love the brave: but it is not enough to be a swordsman,—one must also know WHEREON to use swordsmanship!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 855

Verily, I advise you: depart from me, and guard yourselves against Zarathustra! And better still: be ashamed of him! Perhaps he hath deceived you.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 838

Here paused Zarathustra awhile, and looked lovingly on his disciples. Then he continued to speak thus—and his voice had changed:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3452

In regard to the actual philosophical views expounded in this work, there is an excellent way of clearing up any difficulties they may present, and that is by an appeal to Nietzsche’s other works. Again and again, of course, he will be found to express himself so clearly that all reference to his other writings may be dispensed with; but where this is not the case, the advice he himself gives is after all the best to be followed here, viz.:—to regard such works as: “Joyful Science”, “Beyond Good and Evil”, “The Genealogy of Morals”, “The Twilight of the Idols”, “The Antichrist”, “The Will to Power”, etc., etc., as the necessary preparation for “Thus Spake Zarathustra”.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2217

For that hour do I now wait: for first must the signs come unto me that it is MINE hour—namely, the laughing lion with the flock of doves.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3046

‘Why doth he not come who hath so long announced himself?’ thus do many people ask; ‘hath solitude swallowed him up? Or should we perhaps go to him?’

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2115

—That I saw and scented in every one, what was ENOUGH of spirit for him, and what was TOO MUCH!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2630

Woe unto all loving ones who have not an elevation which is above their pity!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 195

At the gate of the town the grave-diggers met him: they shone their torch on his face, and, recognising Zarathustra, they sorely derided him. “Zarathustra is carrying away the dead dog: a fine thing that Zarathustra hath turned a grave-digger! For our hands are too cleanly for that roast. Will Zarathustra steal the bite from the devil? Well then, good luck to the repast! If only the devil is not a better thief than Zarathustra!—he will steal them both, he will eat them both!” And they laughed among themselves, and put their heads together.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1030

And others are there who are drawn downwards: their devils draw them. But the more they sink, the more ardently gloweth their eye, and the longing for their God.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1951

I honour him, that bad guest, but gladly leave him alone. Gladly do I run away from him; and when one runneth WELL, then one escapeth him!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1685

And I answered: “Ah, is it MY word? Who am _I_? I await the worthier one; I am not worthy even to succumb by it.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2804

And ask counsel of mine animals, mine eagle and my serpent: they shall help thee to seek. My cave however is large.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1360

Verily, I myself am the scared crow that once saw you naked, and without paint; and I flew away when the skeleton ogled at me.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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