Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1583
A person putting a glass to his eyes, could even recognise further a small envious countenance, and also that a bloated soullet dangled at the stalk. The people told me, however, that the big ear was not only a man, but a great man, a genius. But I never believed in the people when they spake of great men—and I hold to my belief that it was a reversed cripple, who had too little of everything, and too much of one thing.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3500
This refers to all those philosophers hitherto, who have run in the harness of established values and have not risked their reputation with the people in pursuit of truth. The philosopher, however, as Nietzsche understood him, is a man who creates new values, and thus leads mankind in a new direction.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1904
To be sure, they also learn in their way to stride on and stride forward: that, I call their HOBBLING.—Thereby they become a hindrance to all who are in haste.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1424
But to the sheep I am no longer a scholar: so willeth my lot—blessings upon it!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2881
But that thou passedst me by in silence, that thou blushedst—I saw it well: thereby did I know thee as Zarathustra.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 759
Marriage: so call I the will of the twain to create the one that is more than those who created it. The reverence for one another, as those exercising such a will, call I marriage.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1171
Light am I: ah, that I were night! But it is my lonesomeness to be begirt with light!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2514
I have spoken my word. I break down by my word: so willeth mine eternal fate—as announcer do I succumb!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2082
—Wild and strange even when they love thee: for above all they want to be TREATED INDULGENTLY!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2768
Who warm’th me, who lov’th me still? Give ardent fingers! Give heartening charcoal-warmers! Prone, outstretched, trembling, Like him, half dead and cold, whose feet one warm’th— And shaken, ah! by unfamiliar fevers, Shivering with sharpened, icy-cold frost-arrows, By thee pursued, my fancy! Ineffable! Recondite! Sore-frightening! Thou huntsman ’hind the cloud-banks! Now lightning-struck by thee, Thou mocking eye that me in darkness watcheth: —Thus do I lie, Bend myself, twist myself, convulsed With all eternal torture, And smitten By thee, cruellest huntsman, Thou unfamiliar—GOD...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1546
A riddle is it still unto me, this dream; the meaning is hidden in it and encaged, and doth not yet fly above it on free pinions.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3430
“What happeneth unto me?” thought Zarathustra in his astonished heart, and slowly seated himself on the big stone which lay close to the exit from his cave. But while he grasped about with his hands, around him, above him and below him, and repelled the tender birds, behold, there then happened to him something still stranger: for he grasped thereby unawares into a mass of thick, warm, shaggy hair; at the same time, however, there sounded before him a roar,—a long, soft lion-roar.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3168
But what doth it matter, ye dice-players! Ye had not learned to play and mock, as one must play and mock! Do we not ever sit at a great table of mocking and playing?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3375
Ye good dancers, now is all delight over: wine hath become lees, every cup hath become brittle, the sepulchres mutter.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 861
Now do I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1396
And this do I call IMMACULATE perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3447
The title suggests all kinds of mysteries; a glance at the chapter-headings quickly confirms the suspicions already aroused, and the sub-title: “A Book for All and None”, generally succeeds in dissipating the last doubts the prospective purchaser may entertain concerning his fitness for the book or its fitness for him. And what happens?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 815
Only as image of the highest virtue came gold to the highest value. Goldlike, beameth the glance of the bestower. Gold-lustre maketh peace between moon and sun.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2703
We ARE NOT the first men—and have nevertheless to STAND FOR them: of this imposture have we at last become weary and disgusted.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 652
The phantom that runneth on before thee, my brother, is fairer than thou; why dost thou not give unto it thy flesh and thy bones? But thou fearest, and runnest unto thy neighbour.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 363
Illustrious is it to have many virtues, but a hard lot; and many a one hath gone into the wilderness and killed himself, because he was weary of being the battle and battlefield of virtues.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 675
Free, dost thou call thyself? Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3321
“O Zarathustra,” answered the shrewd magician, “thou art right, it was a stupid thing,—it was also repugnant to me.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2863
Zarathustra, however, became absorbed in dark recollections, for it seemed to him as if he had once before stood in this valley. And much heaviness settled on his mind, so that he walked slowly and always more slowly, and at last stood still. Then, however, when he opened his eyes, he saw something sitting by the wayside shaped like a man, and hardly like a man, something nondescript. And all at once there came over Zarathustra a great shame, because he had gazed on such a thing.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3249
“ZARATHUSTRA!” cried all of them there assembled, as if with one voice, and burst out at the same time into a great laughter; there arose, however, from them as it were a heavy cloud. Even the magician laughed, and said wisely: “Well! It is gone, mine evil spirit!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2248
Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables—half-written.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1378
But a home have I found nowhere: unsettled am I in all cities, and decamping at all gates.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3520
This discourse is very important. In “Beyond Good and Evil” we hear often enough that the select and superior man must wear a mask, and here we find this injunction explained. “And he who would not languish amongst men, must learn to drink out of all glasses: and he who would keep clean amongst men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.” This, I venture to suggest, requires some explanation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 686
Thou goest beyond them: but the higher thou risest, the smaller doth the eye of envy see thee. Most of all, however, is the flying one hated.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1791
BUT THERE LAY A MAN! And there! The dog leaping, bristling, whining—now did it see me coming—then did it howl again, then did it CRY:—had I ever heard a dog cry so for help?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3035
—Who however could have humbled himself as thou hast done, with such pride? THAT uplifteth us ourselves; a refreshment is it, to our eyes and hearts.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2167
And precisely THAT was to be virtue and was to be called virtue—to abuse selfishness! And “selfless”—so did they wish themselves with good reason, all those world-weary cowards and cross-spiders!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1621
Hath the Will become its own deliverer and joy-bringer? Hath it unlearned the spirit of revenge and all teeth-gnashing?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1234
From you, my dearest dead ones, cometh unto me a sweet savour, heart-opening and melting. Verily, it convulseth and openeth the heart of the lone seafarer.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1335
Verily, not in satiety shall his longing cease and disappear, but in beauty! Gracefulness belongeth to the munificence of the magnanimous.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1483
Even before the ugliest of all buffaloes doth it spread out its tail; never doth it tire of its lace-fan of silver and silk.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 401
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it even becometh populace.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2907
Thus spake Zarathustra and went his way, more thoughtfully and slowly even than before: for he asked himself many things, and hardly knew what to answer.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1325
Far too long did he sit in the shade; the cheeks of the penitent of the spirit became pale; he almost starved on his expectations.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1515
“Church?” answered I, “that is a kind of state, and indeed the most mendacious. But remain quiet, thou dissembling dog! Thou surely knowest thine own species best!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 300
Suffering was it, and impotence—that created all backworlds; and the short madness of happiness, which only the greatest sufferer experienceth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1220
Is she beautiful? What do I know! But the oldest carps are still lured by her.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1321
And ye tell me, friends, that there is to be no dispute about taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute about taste and tasting!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2038
The rest: these are always the great majority, the common-place, the superfluous, the far too many—those all are cowardly!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1620
But did it ever speak thus? And when doth this take place? Hath the Will been unharnessed from its own folly?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 631
“To honour father and mother, and from the root of the soul to do their will”—this table of surmounting hung another people over them, and became powerful and permanent thereby.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2976
‘To live as I incline, or not to live at all’: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have _I_ still—inclination?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3005
—‘For happiness, how little sufficeth for happiness!’ Thus spake I once and thought myself wise. But it was a blasphemy: THAT have I now learned. Wise fools speak better.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1634
And THEREFORE do I live blindly among men, as if I knew them not: that my hand may not entirely lose belief in firmness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 768
This one went forth in quest of truth as a hero, and at last got for himself a small decked-up lie: his marriage he calleth it.