Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
3,679 passages indexed from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) — Page 33 of 74
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2601
If ever I have played dice with the Gods at the divine table of the earth, so that the earth quaked and ruptured, and snorted forth fire-streams:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1269
“Will to Truth” do ye call it, ye wisest ones, that which impelleth you and maketh you ardent?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 104
All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3153
Where your entire love is, namely, with your child, there is also your entire virtue! Your work, your will is YOUR “neighbour”: let no false values impose upon you!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 702
“Why stealest thou along so furtively in the twilight, Zarathustra? And what hidest thou so carefully under thy mantle?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 990
But so enjoineth their belief: “On your knees, up the stair, ye sinners!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2627
Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage-ring of rings—the ring of the return?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3472
Those who are sufficiently interested to desire to read his own detailed account of the society he would fain establish, will find an excellent passage in Aphorism 57 of “The Antichrist”.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1738
Everything as yet sleepeth, said he; even the sea sleepeth. Drowsily and strangely doth its eye gaze upon me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3428
Mine eagle is awake, and like me honoureth the sun. With eagle-talons doth it grasp at the new light. Ye are my proper animals; I love you.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 335
Thy Self laugheth at thine ego, and its proud prancings. “What are these prancings and flights of thought unto me?” it saith to itself. “A by-way to my purpose. I am the leading-string of the ego, and the prompter of its notions.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 168
One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1270
Will for the thinkableness of all being: thus do _I_ call your will!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3569
Even to call life “activity,” or to define it further as “the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations,” as Spencer has it, Nietzsche characterises as a “democratic idiosyncracy.” He says to define it in this way, “is to mistake the true nature and function of life, which is Will to Power....
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2454
Joy to me! Come hither! Give me thy hand—ha! let be! aha!—Disgust, disgust, disgust—alas to me!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1194
‘Tis night: now do all gushing fountains speak louder. And my soul also is a gushing fountain.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3396
How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2029
This precept, however, give I unto thee, in parting, thou fool: Where one can no longer love, there should one—PASS BY!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2145
Passion for power: the glowing scourge of the hardest of the heart-hard; the cruel torture reserved for the cruellest themselves; the gloomy flame of living pyres.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1916
In their hearts they want simply one thing most of all: that no one hurt them. Thus do they anticipate every one’s wishes and do well unto every one.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 58
In the autumn of 1883 my brother left the Engadine for Germany and stayed there a few weeks. In the following winter, after wandering somewhat erratically through Stresa, Genoa, and Spezia, he landed in Nice, where the climate so happily promoted his creative powers that he wrote the third part of “Zarathustra”.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1305
Thus did Life once teach me: and thereby, ye wisest ones, do I solve you the riddle of your hearts.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 677
Free from what? What doth that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall thine eye show unto me: free FOR WHAT?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1086
And as strong winds will we live above them, neighbours to the eagles, neighbours to the snow, neighbours to the sun: thus live the strong winds.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2998
—As a ship that putteth into the calmest cove:—it now draweth up to the land, weary of long voyages and uncertain seas. Is not the land more faithful?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1009
Greater ones, verily, have there been, and higher-born ones, than those whom the people call Saviours, those rapturous blusterers!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2186
Almost in the cradle are we apportioned with heavy words and worths: “good” and “evil”—so calleth itself this dowry. For the sake of it we are forgiven for living.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2378
Therein viewing, therein hewing—they are the same thing: therefore depart into the forests and lay your sword to sleep!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 488
Ye shall love peace as a means to new wars—and the short peace more than the long.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1422
I like to lie here where the children play, beside the ruined wall, among thistles and red poppies.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1972
That no one might see down into my depth and into mine ultimate will—for that purpose did I devise the long clear silence.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 178
Then, however, something happened which made every mouth mute and every eye fixed. In the meantime, of course, the rope-dancer had commenced his performance: he had come out at a little door, and was going along the rope which was stretched between two towers, so that it hung above the market-place and the people. When he was just midway across, the little door opened once more, and a gaudily-dressed fellow like a buffoon sprang out, and went rapidly after the first one.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1756
Upwards:—in spite of the spirit that drew it downwards, towards the abyss, the spirit of gravity, my devil and arch-enemy.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3551
Nietzsche is here completely in his element. Three things hitherto best cursed and most calumniated on earth, are brought forward to be weighed. Voluptuousness, thirst of power, and selfishness,—the three forces in humanity which Christianity has done most to garble and besmirch,—Nietzsche endeavours to reinstate in their former places of honour. Voluptuousness, or sensual pleasure, is a dangerous thing to discuss nowadays.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2366
—The soul most self-loving, in which all things have their current and counter-current, their ebb and their flow:—oh, how could THE LOFTIEST SOUL fail to have the worst parasites?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2862
When, however, the path again curved round a rock, all at once the landscape changed, and Zarathustra entered into a realm of death. Here bristled aloft black and red cliffs, without any grass, tree, or bird’s voice. For it was a valley which all animals avoided, even the beasts of prey, except that a species of ugly, thick, green serpent came here to die when they became old. Therefore the shepherds called this valley: “Serpent-death.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3129
Ye do not yet suffer enough for me! For ye suffer from yourselves, ye have not yet suffered FROM MAN. Ye would lie if ye spake otherwise! None of you suffereth from what _I_ have suffered.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 207
To allure many from the herd—for that purpose have I come. The people and the herd must be angry with me: a robber shall Zarathustra be called by the herdsmen.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3284
But what matter about that! They are old people: they recover in their own way, they laugh in their own way; mine ears have already endured worse and have not become peevish.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 574
Yea, my friend, the bad conscience art thou of thy neighbours; for they are unworthy of thee. Therefore they hate thee, and would fain suck thy blood.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 517
“On earth there is nothing greater than I: it is I who am the regulating finger of God”—thus roareth the monster. And not only the long-eared and short-sighted fall upon their knees!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3345
—Since ye have again become joyful! Ye have, verily, all blossomed forth: it seemeth to me that for such flowers as you, NEW FESTIVALS are required.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3502
In this discourse we get the best exposition in the whole book of Nietzsche’s doctrine of the Will to Power. I go into this question thoroughly in the Note on Chapter LVII.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3559
In his feverish scurry to find entertainment and diversion, whether in a novel, a newspaper, or a play, the modern man condemns his own age utterly; for he shows that in his heart of hearts he despises himself. One cannot change a condition of this sort in a day; to become endurable to oneself an inner transformation is necessary. Too long have we lost ourselves in our friends and entertainments to be able to find ourselves so soon at another’s bidding.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3594
“Much is reckoned higher than life itself by the living one.” Nietzsche says that to speak of the activity of life as a “struggle for existence,” is to state the case inadequately. He warns us not to confound Malthus with nature. There is something more than this struggle between the organic beings on this earth; want, which is supposed to bring this struggle about, is not so common as is supposed; some other force must be operative.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3384
—Of drunken midnight-death happiness, which singeth: the world is deep, AND DEEPER THAN THE DAY COULD READ!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3058
For he who himself standeth, like you, on sickly and tender legs, wisheth above all to be TREATED INDULGENTLY, whether he be conscious of it or hide it from himself.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1106
They are people of bad race and lineage; out of their countenances peer the hangman and the sleuth-hound.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 722
Let man fear woman when she hateth: for man in his innermost soul is merely evil; woman, however, is mean.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1050
Ah! my friends! That YOUR very Self be in your action, as the mother is in the child: let that be YOUR formula of virtue!