Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3294

They empty their hearts, good times return unto them, they keep holiday and ruminate,—they become THANKFUL.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 904

Lo, what fulness is around us! And out of the midst of superabundance, it is delightful to look out upon distant seas.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 811

Verily, a goal had Zarathustra; he threw his ball. Now be ye friends the heirs of my goal; to you throw I the golden ball.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1382

When yester-eve the moon arose, then did I fancy it about to bear a sun: so broad and teeming did it lie on the horizon.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2936

“Why dost thou tempt me?” answered the other. “Thou knowest it thyself better even than I. What was it drove me to the poorest, O Zarathustra? Was it not my disgust at the richest?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1730

Thus spake Zarathustra to himself while ascending, comforting his heart with harsh maxims: for he was sore at heart as he had never been before. And when he had reached the top of the mountain-ridge, behold, there lay the other sea spread out before him: and he stood still and was long silent. The night, however, was cold at this height, and clear and starry.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 542

Little do the people understand what is great—that is to say, the creating agency. But they have a taste for all representers and actors of great things.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 810

Thus will I die myself, that ye friends may love the earth more for my sake; and earth will I again become, to have rest in her that bore me.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 508

It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2452

I, Zarathustra, the advocate of living, the advocate of suffering, the advocate of the circuit—thee do I call, my most abysmal thought!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1729

Yea! To look down upon myself, and even upon my stars: that only would I call my SUMMIT, that hath remained for me as my LAST summit!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 532

Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the idolatry of the superfluous!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1884

And Zarathustra stood still and meditated. At last he said sorrowfully: “There hath EVERYTHING become smaller!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3567

Fundamentally everything standeth still.” But soon the spring cometh and with it the thaw-wind. It breaks the ice, and the ice breaks down the foot-bridges and railings, whereupon everything is swept away. This state of affairs, according to Nietzsche, has now been reached. “Oh, my brethren, is not everything AT PRESENT IN FLUX? Have not all railings and foot-bridges fallen into the water? Who would still HOLD ON to ‘good’ and ‘evil’?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3163

And if he founded monasteries, and inscribed over their portals: “The way to holiness,”—I should still say: What good is it! it is a new folly!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 174

And here ended the first discourse of Zarathustra, which is also called “The Prologue”: for at this point the shouting and mirth of the multitude interrupted him. “Give us this last man, O Zarathustra,”—they called out—“make us into these last men! Then will we make thee a present of the Superman!” And all the people exulted and smacked their lips. Zarathustra, however, turned sad, and said to his heart:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1675

To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground giveth way under him, and the dream beginneth.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1436

They keep a sharp eye on one another, and do not trust each other the best. Ingenious in little artifices, they wait for those whose knowledge walketh on lame feet,—like spiders do they wait.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1344

The virtue of the pillar shalt thou strive after: more beautiful doth it ever become, and more graceful—but internally harder and more sustaining—the higher it riseth.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2933

Whoever at present drip, like bulgy bottles out of all-too-small necks:—of such bottles at present one willingly breaketh the necks.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2484

“Ah, that his baddest is so very small! Ah, that his best is so very small!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2138

Voluptuousness: unto all hair-shirted despisers of the body, a sting and stake; and, cursed as “the world,” by all backworldsmen: for it mocketh and befooleth all erring, misinferring teachers.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1019

Ah! this is my sorrow: into the basis of things have reward and punishment been insinuated—and now even into the basis of your souls, ye virtuous ones!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 771

Careful, have I found all buyers, and all of them have astute eyes. But even the astutest of them buyeth his wife in a sack.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 584

These are continent, to be sure: but doggish lust looketh enviously out of all that they do.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 84

Then thou carriedst thine ashes into the mountains: wilt thou now carry thy fire into the valleys? Fearest thou not the incendiary’s doom?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 239

Or is it this: To love those who despise us, and give one’s hand to the phantom when it is going to frighten us?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1991

Thus slowly wandering through many peoples and divers cities, did Zarathustra return by round-about roads to his mountains and his cave. And behold, thereby came he unawares also to the gate of the GREAT CITY. Here, however, a foaming fool, with extended hands, sprang forward to him and stood in his way. It was the same fool whom the people called “the ape of Zarathustra:” for he had learned from him something of the expression and modulation of language, and perhaps liked also to borrow from the store of his wisdom. And the fool talked thus to Zarathustra:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3269

Thus spake the wanderer who called himself Zarathustra’s shadow; and before any one answered him, he had seized the harp of the old magician, crossed his legs, and looked calmly and sagely around him:—with his nostrils, however, he inhaled the air slowly and questioningly, like one who in new countries tasteth new foreign air. Afterward he began to sing with a kind of roaring.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 250

To assume the right to new values—that is the most formidable assumption for a load-bearing and reverent spirit. Verily, unto such a spirit it is preying, and the work of a beast of prey.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1944

But why talk I, when no one hath MINE ears! It is still an hour too early for me here.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2582

There is an old heavy, heavy, booming-clock: it boometh by night up to thy cave:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2603

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 2728

—When the kings thus discoursed and talked eagerly of the happiness of their fathers, there came upon Zarathustra no little desire to mock at their eagerness: for evidently they were very peaceable kings whom he saw before him, kings with old and refined features. But he restrained himself. “Well!” said he, “thither leadeth the way, there lieth the cave of Zarathustra; and this day is to have a long evening! At present, however, a cry of distress calleth me hastily away from you.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3387

The purest are to be masters of the world, the least known, the strongest, the midnight-souls, who are brighter and deeper than any day.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2546

—Already glowest thou and dreamest, already drinkest thou thirstily at all deep echoing wells of consolation, already reposeth thy melancholy in the bliss of future songs!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3313

He who said ‘God is a Spirit’—made the greatest stride and slide hitherto made on earth towards unbelief: such a dictum is not easily amended again on earth!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2213

—Neither a good nor a bad taste, but MY taste, of which I have no longer either shame or secrecy.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1800

—The shepherd however bit as my cry had admonished him; he bit with a strong bite! Far away did he spit the head of the serpent—: and sprang up.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 495

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 612

Let thy pity be a divining: to know first if thy friend wanteth pity. Perhaps he loveth in thee the unmoved eye, and the look of eternity.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2286

Is there not even in all life—robbing and slaying? And for such precepts to be called holy, was not TRUTH itself thereby—slain?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2508

Thou wouldst speak, and without trembling, buoyant rather with bliss, for a great weight and worry would be taken from thee, thou patientest one!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 434

How ashamed I am of my clambering and stumbling! How I mock at my violent panting! How I hate him who flieth! How tired I am on the height!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 85

Yea, I recognise Zarathustra. Pure is his eye, and no loathing lurketh about his mouth. Goeth he not along like a dancer?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1290

Wherever I found a living thing, there found I Will to Power; and even in the will of the servant found I the will to be master.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3254

HE—loveth his enemies: this art knoweth he better than any one I have seen. But he taketh revenge for it—on his friends!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 268

That they may not quarrel with one another, the good females! And about thee, thou unhappy one!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2858

In my domain shall no one come to grief; my cave is a good haven. And best of all would I like to put every sorrowful one again on firm land and firm legs.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1949

—Herald shall they one day with flaming tongues: It cometh, it is nigh, THE GREAT NOONTIDE!