Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3529
Nietzsche is able to think cheerfully and optimistically of the possibility of life in this world recurring again and again, when he has once cast the dwarf from his shoulders, and he announces his doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence of all things great and small to his arch-enemy and in defiance of him.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3431
“THE SIGN COMETH,” said Zarathustra, and a change came over his heart. And in truth, when it turned clear before him, there lay a yellow, powerful animal at his feet, resting its head on his knee,—unwilling to leave him out of love, and doing like a dog which again findeth its old master. The doves, however, were no less eager with their love than the lion; and whenever a dove whisked over its nose, the lion shook its head and wondered and laughed.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1470
Ah, how I am weary of all the inadequate that is insisted on as actual! Ah, how I am weary of the poets!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1839
Away with thee, thou blissful hour! With thee hath there come to me an involuntary bliss! Ready for my severest pain do I here stand:—at the wrong time hast thou come!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 813
When Zarathustra had taken leave of the town to which his heart was attached, the name of which is “The Pied Cow,” there followed him many people who called themselves his disciples, and kept him company. Thus came they to a crossroad. Then Zarathustra told them that he now wanted to go alone; for he was fond of going alone. His disciples, however, presented him at his departure with a staff, on the golden handle of which a serpent twined round the sun. Zarathustra rejoiced on account of the staff, and supported himself thereon; then spake he thus to his disciples:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1841
There, already approacheth eventide: the sun sinketh. Away—my happiness!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3178
Did he himself find no cause for laughter on the earth? Then he sought badly. A child even findeth cause for it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1204
A dance-song and satire on the spirit of gravity my supremest, powerfulest devil, who is said to be “lord of the world.”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3017
When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things,—when wilt thou drink this strange soul—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3279
Oh, weep ye not, Gentle spirits! Weep ye not, ye Date-fruit spirits! Milk-bosoms! Ye sweetwood-heart Purselets! Weep ye no more, Pallid Dudu! Be a man, Suleika! Bold! Bold! —Or else should there perhaps Something strengthening, heart-strengthening, Here most proper be? Some inspiring text? Some solemn exhortation?— Ha! Up now! honour! Moral honour! European honour! Blow again, continue, Bellows-box of virtue! Ha! Once more thy roaring, Thy moral roaring! As a virtuous lion Nigh the daughters of deserts roaring! —For virtue’s out-howl, Ye very dearest maidens, Is more than every European fervour, European hot-hunger! And now do I stand here, As European, I can’t be different, God’s help to me! Amen!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2802
—And here there arose a long silence between them: Zarathustra, however, became profoundly absorbed in thought, so that he shut his eyes. But afterwards coming back to the situation, he grasped the hand of the magician, and said, full of politeness and policy:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1023
Ye love your virtue as a mother loveth her child; but when did one hear of a mother wanting to be paid for her love?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 762
Marriage they call it all; and they say their marriages are made in heaven.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 379
An idea made this pale man pale. Adequate was he for his deed when he did it, but the idea of it, he could not endure when it was done.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3054
(“‘Plain language and plainly?’ Good God!” said here the king on the left to himself; “one seeth he doth not know the good Occidentals, this sage out of the Orient!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3347
Forget not this night and this ass-festival, ye higher men! THAT did ye devise when with me, that do I take as a good omen,—such things only the convalescents devise!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1961
With a wickedness do I begin every day: I mock at the winter with a cold bath: on that account grumbleth my stern house-mate.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3188
Lift up your hearts, my brethren, high, higher! And do not forget your legs! Lift up also your legs, ye good dancers, and better still, if ye stand upon your heads!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 586
And how nicely can doggish lust beg for a piece of spirit, when a piece of flesh is denied it!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 354
But that bird built its nest beside me: therefore, I love and cherish it—now sitteth it beside me on its golden eggs.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1289
Hearken now unto my word, ye wisest ones! Test it seriously, whether I have crept into the heart of life itself, and into the roots of its heart!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 812
Best of all, do I see you, my friends, throw the golden ball! And so tarry I still a little while on the earth—pardon me for it!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2873
Thou hast divined, I know it well, how the man feeleth who killed him,—the murderer of God. Stay! Sit down here beside me; it is not to no purpose.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 255
Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2055
Or they look for long evenings at a crafty, lurking cross-spider, that preacheth prudence to the spiders themselves, and teacheth that “under crosses it is good for cobweb-spinning!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3590
The former says in his “Origin of Species”, concerning the causes of variability: “...there are two factors, namely, the nature of the organism, and the nature of the conditions.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1765
Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby hath he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph hath he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1063
And many a one who hath come along as a destroyer, and as a hailstorm to all cornfields, wanted merely to put his foot into the jaws of the rabble, and thus stop their throat.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 352
Not as the law of a God do I desire it, not as a human law or a human need do I desire it; it is not to be a guide-post for me to superearths and paradises.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2764
Fain would I also make amends to thy body for Zarathustra treading upon thee with his feet: I think about that. Just now, however, a cry of distress calleth me hastily away from thee.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 755
I would have thy victory and freedom long for a child. Living monuments shalt thou build to thy victory and emancipation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1401
Loving and perishing: these have rhymed from eternity. Will to love: that is to be ready also for death. Thus do I speak unto you cowards!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2377
Keep your eye clear of their For and Against! There is there much right, much wrong: he who looketh on becometh wroth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1849
We have been friends from the beginning: to us are grief, gruesomeness, and ground common; even the sun is common to us.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2742
Well! Up thither is the way to Zarathustra’s cave: it is not far,—wilt thou not attend to thy wounds at my home?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2889
Too long have we acknowledged them to be right, those petty people: SO we have at last given them power as well;—and now do they teach that ‘good is only what petty people call good.’
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3518
In verse 19 we are told what Nietzsche called Redemption—that is to say, the ability to say of all that is past: “Thus would I have it.” The in ability to say this, and the resentment which results therefrom, he regards as the source of all our feelings of revenge, and all our desires to punish—punishment meaning to him merely a euphemism for the word revenge, invented in order to still our consciences.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 667
Wouldst thou go into isolation, my brother? Wouldst thou seek the way unto thyself? Tarry yet a little and hearken unto me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 329
“Ego,” sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing—in which thou art unwilling to believe—is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not “ego,” but doeth it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1371
Many a one hath said: “There hath surely a God filched something from me secretly whilst I slept? Verily, enough to make a girl for himself therefrom!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3306
Lo! how thou spurnest none from thee, neither beggars nor kings. Thou sufferest little children to come unto thee, and when the bad boys decoy thee, then sayest thou simply, YE-A.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 879
What hath happened unto me, mine animals?—said Zarathustra. Am I not transformed? Hath not bliss come unto me like a whirlwind?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1486
Verily, their spirit itself is the peacock of peacocks, and a sea of vanity!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2241
—As composer, riddle-reader, and redeemer of chance, did I teach them to create the future, and all that HATH BEEN—to redeem by creating.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2245
For once more will I go unto men: AMONGST them will my sun set; in dying will I give them my choicest gift!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1020
But like the snout of the boar shall my word grub up the basis of your souls; a ploughshare will I be called by you.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 187
Meanwhile the evening came on, and the market-place veiled itself in gloom. Then the people dispersed, for even curiosity and terror become fatigued. Zarathustra, however, still sat beside the dead man on the ground, absorbed in thought: so he forgot the time. But at last it became night, and a cold wind blew upon the lonely one. Then arose Zarathustra and said to his heart:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3003
Do not sing, thou prairie-bird, my soul! Do not even whisper! Lo—hush! The old noontide sleepeth, it moveth its mouth: doth it not just now drink a drop of happiness—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1559
And in the roaring, and whistling, and whizzing the coffin burst up, and spouted out a thousand peals of laughter.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1541
Verily, said he unto his disciples, a little while, and there cometh the long twilight. Alas, how shall I preserve my light through it!