Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 127
When Zarathustra had thus spoken, one of the people called out: “We have now heard enough of the rope-dancer; it is time now for us to see him!” And all the people laughed at Zarathustra. But the rope-dancer, who thought the words applied to him, began his performance.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2405
—An attempt, my brethren! And NO “contract”! Destroy, I pray you, destroy that word of the soft-hearted and half-and-half!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 296
Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 410
Ye tell me, “Life is hard to bear.” But for what purpose should ye have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 489
You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1823
But I lay enchained to my love for my children: desire spread this snare for me—the desire for love—that I should become the prey of my children, and lose myself in them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3663
“What hath hitherto been the greatest sin here on earth? Was it not the word of him who said: ‘Woe unto them that laugh now!’ 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 2647
For THIS am I from the heart and from the beginning—drawing, hither-drawing, upward-drawing, upbringing; a drawer, a trainer, a training-master, who not in vain counselled himself once on a time: “Become what thou art!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1317
O’erhung with ugly truths, the spoil of his hunting, and rich in torn raiment; many thorns also hung on him—but I saw no rose.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2883
For that I am too RICH, rich in what is great, frightful, ugliest, most unutterable! Thy shame, O Zarathustra, HONOURED me!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1302
For what is not, cannot will; that, however, which is in existence—how could it still strive for existence!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3644
At the noon of life Nietzsche said he entered the world; with him man came of age. We are now held responsible for our actions; our old guardians, the gods and demi-gods of our youth, the superstitions and fears of our childhood, withdraw; the field lies open before us; we lived through our morning with but one master—chance—; let us see to it that we MAKE our afternoon our own (see Note XLIX., Part III.).
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 834
When ye despise pleasant things, and the effeminate couch, and cannot couch far enough from the effeminate: there is the origin of your virtue.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3180
Must one then curse immediately, when one doth not love? That—seemeth to me bad taste. Thus did he, however, this absolute one. He sprang from the populace.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 785
Thus to die is best; the next best, however, is to die in battle, and sacrifice a great soul.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 635
Valuing is creating: hear it, ye creating ones! Valuation itself is the treasure and jewel of the valued things.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2411
The good and just themselves were not free to understand him; their spirit was imprisoned in their good conscience. The stupidity of the good is unfathomably wise.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1549
The odour of dust-covered eternities did I breathe: sultry and dust-covered lay my soul. And who could have aired his soul there!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2125
How confidently did my dream contemplate this finite world, not new-fangledly, not old-fangledly, not timidly, not entreatingly:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2061
Five words about old things did I hear yester-night at the garden-wall: they came from such old, sorrowful, arid night-watchmen.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 731
Swaddle it up and hold its mouth: otherwise it will scream too loudly, the little truth.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1357
And though one be a trier of the reins, who still believeth that ye have reins! Out of colours ye seem to be baked, and out of glued scraps.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 962
Ah, my brethren! One knoweth a little too much about every one! And many a one becometh transparent to us, but still we can by no means penetrate him.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3522
Nietzsche practically tells us here that it is not he who intentionally wears eccentric clothes or does eccentric things who is truly the individualist. The profound man, who is by nature differentiated from his fellows, feels this difference too keenly to call attention to it by any outward show.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1752
To you only do I tell the enigma that I SAW—the vision of the lonesomest one.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1829
Ah, abysmal thought, which art MY thought! When shall I find strength to hear thee burrowing, and no longer tremble?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2550
—A golden bark saw I gleam on darkened waters, a sinking, drinking, reblinking, golden swing-bark!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2342
And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman’s breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3382
—Now doth it wish to die, to die of happiness. Ye higher men, do ye not feel it? There welleth up mysteriously an odour,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 430
“Thou saidst the truth, Zarathustra. I trust myself no longer since I sought to rise into the height, and nobody trusteth me any longer; how doth that happen?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2299
Not that your family have become courtly at courts, and that ye have learned—gay-coloured, like the flamingo—to stand long hours in shallow pools:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3019
Thus spake Zarathustra, and rose from his couch beside the tree, as if awakening from a strange drunkenness: and behold! there stood the sun still exactly above his head. One might, however, rightly infer therefrom that Zarathustra had not then slept long.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1608
THE SPIRIT OF REVENGE: my friends, that hath hitherto been man’s best contemplation; and where there was suffering, it was claimed there was always penalty.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1372
“Amazing is the poverty of my ribs!” thus hath spoken many a present-day man.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1002
In their pity was their spirit drowned; and when they swelled and o’erswelled with pity, there always floated to the surface a great folly.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 451
But it is not the danger of the noble man to turn a good man, but lest he should become a blusterer, a scoffer, or a destroyer.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2350
Now gloweth the sun upon him, and the dogs lick at his sweat: but he lieth there in his obstinacy and preferreth to languish:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 725
“Lo! now hath the world become perfect!”—thus thinketh every woman when she obeyeth with all her love.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2879
Art thou angry with me because I have already racked language too long? Because I have already counselled thee? But know that it is I, the ugliest man,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 193
When Zarathustra had said this to his heart, he put the corpse upon his shoulders and set out on his way. Yet had he not gone a hundred steps, when there stole a man up to him and whispered in his ear—and lo! he that spake was the buffoon from the tower. “Leave this town, O Zarathustra,” said he, “there are too many here who hate thee. The good and just hate thee, and call thee their enemy and despiser; the believers in the orthodox belief hate thee, and call thee a danger to the multitude.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3572
He alone would suffice to carry Nietzsche’s point against all those who are opposed to the other conditions, to the conditions which would have saved Rome, which have maintained the strength of the Jewish race, and which are strictly maintained by every breeder of animals throughout the world. Darwin in his remarks relative to the degeneration of CULTIVATED types of animals through the action of promiscuous breeding, brings Gobineau support from the realm of biology.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 163
“We have discovered happiness”—say the last men, and blink thereby.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3032
The second thing, however, is my little finger. And when ye have THAT, then take the whole hand also, yea, and the heart with it! Welcome here, welcome to you, my guests!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2194
Women know that, the choicest of them: a little fatter a little leaner— oh, how much fate is in so little!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2451
Thou stirrest, stretchest thyself, wheezest? Up! Up! Not wheeze, shalt thou,—but speak unto me! Zarathustra calleth thee, Zarathustra the godless!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1411
A God’s soul, I once thought I saw playing in your games, ye pure discerners! No better arts did I once dream of than your arts!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1464
And if there come unto them tender emotions, then do the poets always think that nature herself is in love with them:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 290
Once on a time, Zarathustra also cast his fancy beyond man, like all backworldsmen. The work of a suffering and tortured God, did the world then seem to me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 306
Verily, it is difficult to prove all being, and hard to make it speak. Tell me, ye brethren, is not the strangest of all things best proved?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1566
Verily, like a thousand peals of children’s laughter cometh Zarathustra into all sepulchres, laughing at those night-watchmen and grave-guardians, and whoever else rattleth with sinister keys.