Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1666

A horror came over me when I saw those best ones naked: then there grew for me the pinions to soar away into distant futures.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3152

In your self-seeking, ye creating ones, there is the foresight and foreseeing of the pregnant! What no one’s eye hath yet seen, namely, the fruit—this, sheltereth and saveth and nourisheth your entire love.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2302

—And verily, wherever this “Holy Spirit” led its knights, always in such campaigns did—goats and geese, and wryheads and guyheads run FOREMOST!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 885

Utterance have I become altogether, and the brawling of a brook from high rocks: downward into the valleys will I hurl my speech.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2467

How lovely is all speech and all falsehoods of tones! With tones danceth our love on variegated rainbows.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 736

When, however, ye have an enemy, then return him not good for evil: for that would abash him. But prove that he hath done something good to you.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2072

They did not “begloom” themselves to death—that do people fabricate! On the contrary, they—LAUGHED themselves to death once on a time!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1363

All that is unhomelike in the future, and whatever maketh strayed birds shiver, is verily more homelike and familiar than your “reality.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2414

The second one, however, who discovered their country—the country, heart and soil of the good and just,—it was he who asked: “Whom do they hate most?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1912

Ah, even upon their hypocrisy did mine eyes’ curiosity alight; and well did I divine all their fly-happiness, and their buzzing around sunny window-panes.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2880

—Who have also the largest, heaviest feet. Where _I_ have gone, the way is bad. I tread all paths to death and destruction.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1718

And one thing more do I know: I stand now before my last summit, and before that which hath been longest reserved for me. Ah, my hardest path must I ascend! Ah, I have begun my lonesomest wandering!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3064

Ye are only bridges: may higher ones pass over upon you! Ye signify steps: so do not upbraid him who ascendeth beyond you into HIS height!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2631

Thus spake the devil unto me, once on a time: “Even God hath his hell: it is his love for man.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2615

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 1214

Then had I almost answered indignantly and told the truth to the angry one; and one cannot answer more indignantly than when one “telleth the truth” to one’s Wisdom.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2340

Not in vain doth your lip hang down:—a small worldly wish still sitteth thereon! And in your eye—floateth there not a cloudlet of unforgotten earthly bliss?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2294

For many noble ones are needed, and many kinds of noble ones, FOR A NEW NOBILITY! Or, as I once said in parable: “That is just divinity, that there are Gods, but no God!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1567

With thy laughter wilt thou frighten and prostrate them: fainting and recovering will demonstrate thy power over them.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 429

Zarathustra smiled, and said: “Many a soul one will never discover, unless one first invent it.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 125

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the frenzy with which ye should be inoculated?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2956

My shadow calleth me? What matter about my shadow! Let it run after me! I—run away from it.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 946

Verily, I have done this and that for the afflicted: but something better did I always seem to do when I had learned to enjoy myself better.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2126

—As if a big round apple presented itself to my hand, a ripe golden apple, with a coolly-soft, velvety skin:—thus did the world present itself unto me:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1518

When I had said this, the fire-dog acted as if mad with envy. “What!” cried he, “the most important creature on earth? And people think it so?” And so much vapour and terrible voices came out of his throat, that I thought he would choke with vexation and envy.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2087

—When thou spakest: ‘Let mine animals lead me! More dangerous have I found it among men than among animals:’—THAT was forsakenness!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1664

Ye highest men who have come within my ken! this is my doubt of you, and my secret laughter: I suspect ye would call my Superman—a devil!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2065

“Prove? As if HE had ever proved anything! Proving is difficult to him; he layeth great stress on one’s BELIEVING him.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3200

Which hateth the consumptive populace-dogs, and all the ill-constituted, sullen brood:—praised be this spirit of all free spirits, the laughing storm, which bloweth dust into the eyes of all the melanopic and melancholic!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1938

And when ye take, then is it like stealing, ye small virtuous ones; but even among knaves HONOUR saith that “one shall only steal when one cannot rob.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 398

It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the reading idlers.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2807

At last bursteth the frog which hath inflated itself too long: then cometh out the wind. To prick a swollen one in the belly, I call good pastime. Hear that, ye boys!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2943

Rather seemest thou to me a plant-eater and a root-man. Perhaps thou grindest corn. Certainly, however, thou art averse to fleshly joys, and thou lovest honey.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 162

The earth hath then become small, and on it there hoppeth the last man who maketh everything small. His species is ineradicable like that of the ground-flea; the last man liveth longest.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2419

With whom lieth the greatest danger to the whole human future? Is it not with the good and just?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3429

Thus spake Zarathustra; then, however, it happened that all on a sudden he became aware that he was flocked around and fluttered around, as if by innumerable birds,—the whizzing of so many wings, however, and the crowding around his head was so great that he shut his eyes. And verily, there came down upon him as it were a cloud, like a cloud of arrows which poureth upon a new enemy. But behold, here it was a cloud of love, and showered upon a new friend.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 637

Change of values—that is, change of the creating ones. Always doth he destroy who hath to be a creator.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 998

Better songs would they have to sing, for me to believe in their Saviour: more like saved ones would his disciples have to appear unto me!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 525

Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft—and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto them!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 613

Let thy pity for thy friend be hid under a hard shell; thou shalt bite out a tooth upon it. Thus will it have delicacy and sweetness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1586

This is the terrible thing to mine eye, that I find man broken up, and scattered about, as on a battle- and butcher-ground.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3561

In the last verse Nietzsche challenges us to show that our way is the right way. In his teaching he does not coerce us, nor does he overpersuade; he simply says: “I am a law only for mine own, I am not a law for all. This—is now MY way,—where is yours?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2528

O my soul, every sun shed I upon thee, and every night and every silence and every longing:—then grewest thou up for me as a vine.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3142

Be on your guard also against the learned! They hate you, because they are unproductive! They have cold, withered eyes before which every bird is unplumed.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 66

His reasons, however, for choosing Zarathustra of all others to be his mouthpiece, he gives us in the following words:—“People have never asked me, as they should have done, what the name Zarathustra precisely means in my mouth, in the mouth of the first Immoralist; for what distinguishes that philosopher from all others in the past is the very fact that he was exactly the reverse of an immoralist.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2284

“Thou shalt not rob! Thou shalt not slay!”—such precepts were once called holy; before them did one bow the knee and the head, and take off one’s shoes.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1880

When Zarathustra was again on the continent, he did not go straightway to his mountains and his cave, but made many wanderings and questionings, and ascertained this and that; so that he said of himself jestingly: “Lo, a river that floweth back unto its source in many windings!” For he wanted to learn what had taken place AMONG MEN during the interval: whether they had become greater or smaller. And once, when he saw a row of new houses, he marvelled, and said:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2004

“From on high,” drippeth the star, and the gracious spittle; for the high, longeth every starless bosom.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2588

Wandereth ‘twixt the past and the future as a heavy cloud—hostile to sultry plains, and to all that is weary and can neither die nor live:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2821

Now, however, am I out of service, without master, and yet not free; likewise am I no longer merry even for an hour, except it be in recollections.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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