Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1311

Let us SPEAK thereof, ye wisest ones, even though it be bad. To be silent is worse; all suppressed truths become poisonous.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 561

But thou, profound one, thou sufferest too profoundly even from small wounds; and ere thou hadst recovered, the same poison-worm crawled over thy hand.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1529

And once more Zarathustra shook his head and wondered. “What am I to think of it!” said he once more.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 772

Many short follies—that is called love by you. And your marriage putteth an end to many short follies, with one long stupidity.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2185

For to its possessor is all possession well concealed, and of all treasure-pits one’s own is last excavated—so causeth the spirit of gravity.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 501

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 441

It rendeth my heart. Better than thy words express it, thine eyes tell me all thy danger.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3408

—Wanted ye ever once to come twice; said ye ever: “Thou pleasest me, happiness! Instant! Moment!” then wanted ye ALL to come back again!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3335

One thing however do I know,—from thyself did I learn it once, O Zarathustra: he who wanteth to kill most thoroughly, LAUGHETH.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1964

Impatiently do I then wait, that the clear sky may finally dawn for me, the snow-bearded winter-sky, the hoary one, the whitehead,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1221

Changeable is she, and wayward; often have I seen her bite her lip, and pass the comb against the grain of her hair.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 899

My wild wisdom became pregnant on the lonesome mountains; on the rough stones did she bear the youngest of her young.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2390

And lost be the day to us in which a measure hath not been danced. And false be every truth which hath not had laughter along with it!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 385

And he hearkened unto his weak reason: like lead lay its words upon him—thereupon he robbed when he murdered. He did not mean to be ashamed of his madness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3256

“Go not away!” said then the wanderer who called himself Zarathustra’s shadow, “abide with us—otherwise the old gloomy affliction might again fall upon us.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1018

And now ye upbraid me for teaching that there is no reward-giver, nor paymaster? And verily, I do not even teach that virtue is its own reward.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1477

They are also not pure enough for me: they all muddle their water that it may seem deep.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 923

For the creator himself to be the new-born child, he must also be willing to be the child-bearer, and endure the pangs of the child-bearer.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 982

It moveth my heart for those priests. They also go against my taste; but that is the smallest matter unto me, since I am among men.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2326

Break up for me, O my brethren, break up also that NEW table! The weary-o’-the-world put it up, and the preachers of death and the jailer: for lo, it is also a sermon for slavery:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2811

Not long, however, after Zarathustra had freed himself from the magician, he again saw a person sitting beside the path which he followed, namely a tall, black man, with a haggard, pale countenance: THIS MAN grieved him exceedingly. “Alas,” said he to his heart, “there sitteth disguised affliction; methinketh he is of the type of the priests: what do THEY want in my domain?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 11

The phrase “the rearing of the Superman,” has very often been misunderstood. By the word “rearing,” in this case, is meant the act of modifying by means of new and higher values—values which, as laws and guides of conduct and opinion, are now to rule over mankind. In general the doctrine of the Superman can only be understood correctly in conjunction with other ideas of the author’s, such as:—the Order of Rank, the Will to Power, and the Transvaluation of all Values.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1175

I know not the happiness of the receiver; and oft have I dreamt that stealing must be more blessed than receiving.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 857

One requiteth a teacher badly if one remain merely a scholar. And why will ye not pluck at my wreath?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 77

Therefore must I descend into the deep: as thou doest in the evening, when thou goest behind the sea, and givest light also to the nether-world, thou exuberant star!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1231

Evening hath come on: forgive me that evening hath come on!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2632

And lately did I hear him say these words: “God is dead: of his pity for man hath God died.”—ZARATHUSTRA, II., “The Pitiful.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2643

Especially the human world, the human sea:—towards IT do I now throw out my golden angle-rod and say: Open up, thou human abyss!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 23

Although the figure of Zarathustra and a large number of the leading thoughts in this work had appeared much earlier in the dreams and writings of the author, “Thus Spake Zarathustra” did not actually come into being until the month of August 1881 in Sils Maria; and it was the idea of the Eternal Recurrence of all things which finally induced my brother to set forth his new views in poetic language. In regard to his first conception of this idea, his autobiographical sketch, “Ecce Homo”, written in the autumn of 1888, contains the following passage:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3082

On this occasion, when the soothsayer was longing for wine, it happened that the king on the left, the silent one, also found expression for once. “WE took care,” said he, “about wine, I, along with my brother the king on the right: we have enough of wine,—a whole ass-load of it. So there is nothing lacking but bread.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 382

Hearken, ye judges! There is another madness besides, and it is BEFORE the deed. Ah! ye have not gone deep enough into this soul!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 319

Too well do I know those godlike ones: they insist on being believed in, and that doubt is sin. Too well, also, do I know what they themselves most believe in.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2501

Sing and bubble over, O Zarathustra, heal thy soul with new lays: that thou mayest bear thy great fate, which hath not yet been any one’s fate!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 902

The figs fall from the trees, they are good and sweet; and in falling the red skins of them break. A north wind am I to ripe figs.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2276

“Fundamentally standeth everything still”—: but CONTRARY thereto, preacheth the thawing wind!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1389

This parable speak I unto you sentimental dissemblers, unto you, the “pure discerners!” You do _I_ call—covetous ones!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 680

To-day sufferest thou still from the multitude, thou individual; to-day hast thou still thy courage unabated, and thy hopes.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2695

“Good manners?” replied angrily and bitterly the other king: “what then do we run out of the way of? Is it not ‘good manners’? Our ‘good society’?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 697

Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way of the creating one: a God wilt thou create for thyself out of thy seven devils!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1998

Hearest thou not how spirit hath here become a verbal game? Loathsome verbal swill doth it vomit forth!—And they make newspapers also out of this verbal swill.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3512

This is a record of Nietzsche’s final breach with his former colleagues—the scholars of Germany. Already after the publication of the “Birth of Tragedy”, numbers of German philologists and professional philosophers had denounced him as one who had strayed too far from their flock, and his lectures at the University of Bale were deserted in consequence; but it was not until 1879, when he finally severed all connection with University work, that he may be said to have attained to the freedom and independence which stamp this discourse.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2887

Beyond all these do I look, as a dog looketh over the backs of thronging flocks of sheep. They are petty, good-wooled, good-willed, grey people.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1744

Ah, thou amiable fool, Zarathustra, thou too-blindly confiding one! But thus hast thou ever been: ever hast thou approached confidently all that is terrible.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3258

Those kings may well put on a good air before us still: for that have THEY learned best of us all at present! Had they however no one to see them, I wager that with them also the bad game would again commence,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 96

Go not to men, but stay in the forest! Go rather to the animals! Why not be like me—a bear amongst bears, a bird amongst birds?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2568

—In the paths of love, through bushes variegated, quiet, trim! Or there along the lake, where gold-fishes dance and swim!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1034

Verily, in those have I mine amusement: wherever I find such clocks I shall wind them up with my mockery, and they shall even whirr thereby!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 202

Thereafter Zarathustra again went on for two hours, trusting to the path and the light of the stars: for he was an experienced night-walker, and liked to look into the face of all that slept. When the morning dawned, however, Zarathustra found himself in a thick forest, and no path was any longer visible. He then put the dead man in a hollow tree at his head—for he wanted to protect him from the wolves—and laid himself down on the ground and moss. And immediately he fell asleep, tired in body, but with a tranquil soul.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3388

O day, thou gropest for me? Thou feelest for my happiness? For thee am I rich, lonesome, a treasure-pit, a gold chamber?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 381

The streak of chalk bewitcheth the hen; the stroke he struck bewitched his weak reason. Madness AFTER the deed, I call this.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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