Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2244
Now do I await MY redemption—that I may go unto them for the last time.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2736
—“Whoever thou art,” said the trodden one, still enraged, “thou treadest also too nigh me with thy parable, and not only with thy foot!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 229
And if my wisdom should some day forsake me:—alas! it loveth to fly away!—may my pride then fly with my folly!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2723
We must HEAR him; him who teacheth: ‘Ye shall love peace as a means to new wars, and the short peace more than the long!’
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1326
Contempt is still in his eye, and loathing hideth in his mouth. To be sure, he now resteth, but he hath not yet taken rest in the sunshine.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2463
To each soul belongeth another world; to each soul is every other soul a back-world.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1828
So called everything unto me in signs: “It is time!” But I—heard not, until at last mine abyss moved, and my thought bit me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2685
With those words Zarathustra turned around to depart. Then said the soothsayer: “O Zarathustra, thou art a rogue!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1281
The living thing did I follow; I walked in the broadest and narrowest paths to learn its nature.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2904
My cave is large and deep and hath many corners; there findeth he that is most hidden his hiding-place. And close beside it, there are a hundred lurking-places and by-places for creeping, fluttering, and hopping creatures.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3595
The Will to Power is this force, “the instinct of self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results thereof.” A certain lack of acumen in psychological questions and the condition of affairs in England at the time Darwin wrote, may both, according to Nietzsche, have induced the renowned naturalist to describe the forces of nature as he did in his “Origin of Species”.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2478
The little man, especially the poet—how passionately doth he accuse life in words! Hearken to him, but do not fail to hear the delight which is in all accusation!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1615
“No deed can be annihilated: how could it be undone by the penalty! This, this is what is eternal in the ‘existence’ of penalty, that existence also must be eternally recurring deed and guilt!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2624
If I have swum playfully in profound luminous distances, and if my freedom’s avian wisdom hath come to me:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2234
Where I also found again mine old devil and arch-enemy, the spirit of gravity, and all that it created: constraint, law, necessity and consequence and purpose and will and good and evil:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 16
The author of “Zarathustra” never lost sight of that egregious example of a transvaluation of all values through Christianity, whereby the whole of the deified mode of life and thought of the Greeks, as well as strong Romedom, was almost annihilated or transvalued in a comparatively short time. Could not a rejuvenated Graeco-Roman system of valuing (once it had been refined and made more profound by the schooling which two thousand years of Christianity had provided) effect another such revolution within a calculable period of time, until that glorious type of manhood shall finally appear which is to be our new faith and hope, and in the creation of which Zarathustra exhorts us to participate?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 657
Thus saith the fool: “Association with men spoileth the character, especially when one hath none.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2654
Not that I would have a grudge against such wrathful ones on that account: they are well enough for laughter to me! Impatient must they now be, those big alarm-drums, which find a voice now or never!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3076
One thing is more necessary than the other, so sayest thou thyself: well, one thing is now more necessary UNTO ME than all others.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1087
And like a wind will I one day blow amongst them, and with my spirit, take the breath from their spirit: thus willeth my future.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1690
Then was there again spoken unto me without voice: “What knowest thou THEREOF! The dew falleth on the grass when the night is most silent.”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 369
Man is something that hath to be surpassed: and therefore shalt thou love thy virtues,—for thou wilt succumb by them.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3084
—THESE shall we slaughter quickly, and cook spicily with sage: it is so that I like them. And there is also no lack of roots and fruits, good enough even for the fastidious and dainty,—nor of nuts and other riddles for cracking.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 273
A small company is more welcome to me than a bad one: but they must come and go at the right time. So doth it accord with good sleep.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 935
The beauty of the Superman came unto me as a shadow. Ah, my brethren! Of what account now are—the Gods to me!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 61
As we have seen, each of the three parts of “Zarathustra” was written, after a more or less short period of preparation, in about ten days. The composition of the fourth part alone was broken by occasional interruptions. The first notes relating to this part were written while he and I were staying together in Zurich in September 1884.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1815
But one day will I take them up, and put each by itself alone: that it may learn lonesomeness and defiance and prudence.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1435
Like millstones do they work, and like pestles: throw only seed-corn unto them!—they know well how to grind corn small, and make white dust out of it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 254
Aye, for the game of creating, my brethren, there is needed a holy Yea unto life: ITS OWN will, willeth now the spirit; HIS OWN world winneth the world’s outcast.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 83
“No stranger to me is this wanderer: many years ago passed he by. Zarathustra he was called; but he hath altered.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2639
What to sacrifice! I squander what is given me, a squanderer with a thousand hands: how could I call that—sacrificing?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2222
—It is he, however, who createth man’s goal, and giveth to the earth its meaning and its future: he only EFFECTETH it THAT aught is good or bad.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2434
For the creators are hard. And blessedness must it seem to you to press your hand upon millenniums as upon wax,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3415
Ye higher men, for you doth it long, this joy, this irrepressible, blessed joy—for your woe, ye failures! For failures, longeth all eternal joy.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2827
“Lo! thou venerable one,” said he then, “what a fine and long hand! That is the hand of one who hath ever dispensed blessings. Now, however, doth it hold fast him whom thou seekest, me, Zarathustra.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2837
“To speak before three eyes,” said the old pope cheerfully (he was blind of one eye), “in divine matters I am more enlightened than Zarathustra himself—and may well be so.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1533
And from all hills there re-echoed: ‘All is empty, all is alike, all hath been!’
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 450
The new, would the noble man create, and a new virtue. The old, wanteth the good man, and that the old should be conserved.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2078
Now threaten me with the finger as mothers threaten; now smile upon me as mothers smile; now say just: “Who was it that like a whirlwind once rushed away from me?—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1742
Ah, that my hand hath not strength enough! Gladly, indeed, would I free thee from evil dreams!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2005
The moon hath its court, and the court hath its moon-calves: unto all, however, that cometh from the court do the mendicant people pray, and all appointable mendicant virtues.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1550
Brightness of midnight was ever around me; lonesomeness cowered beside her; and as a third, death-rattle stillness, the worst of my female friends.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1377
Ah, whither shall I now ascend with my longing! From all mountains do I look out for fatherlands and motherlands.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3473
In Part I. including the Prologue, no very great difficulties will appear. Zarathustra’s habit of designating a whole class of men or a whole school of thought by a single fitting nickname may perhaps lead to a little confusion at first; but, as a rule, when the general drift of his arguments is grasped, it requires but a slight effort of the imagination to discover whom he is referring to.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2353
Let him lie, until of his own accord he awakeneth,—until of his own accord he repudiateth all weariness, and what weariness hath taught through him!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1994
Here is the hell for anchorites’ thoughts: here are great thoughts seethed alive and boiled small.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2305
Unto your children shall ye MAKE AMENDS for being the children of your fathers: all the past shall ye THUS redeem! This new table do I place over you!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2809
Thou seekest for great men, thou strange fool? Who TAUGHT that to thee? Is to-day the time for it? Oh, thou bad seeker, why dost thou—tempt me?”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2616
Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love thee, O Eternity!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 310
A new pride taught me mine ego, and that teach I unto men: no longer to thrust one’s head into the sand of celestial things, but to carry it freely, a terrestrial head, which giveth meaning to the earth!