Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1447
“So have I heard thee say once before,” answered the disciple, “and then thou addedst: ‘But the poets lie too much.’ Why didst thou say that the poets lie too much?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2758
My spiritual conscience requireth from me that it should be so—that I should know one thing, and not know all else: they are a loathing unto me, all the semi-spiritual, all the hazy, hovering, and visionary.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3604
In “Beyond Good and Evil” he writes: “There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated...” He knew “from his painfullest recollections on what wretched obstacles promising developments of the highest rank have hitherto usually gone to pieces, broken down, sunk, and become contemptible.” Now in Part IV.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3184
Tortuously do all good things come nigh to their goal. Like cats they curve their backs, they purr inwardly with their approaching happiness,—all good things laugh.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2526
O my soul, I have given thee new names and gay-coloured playthings, I have called thee “Fate” and “the Circuit of circuits” and “the Navel-string of time” and “the Azure bell.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1649
From you would he learn his belief in himself; he feedeth upon your glances, he eateth praise out of your hands.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2253
What thou doest can no one do to thee again. Lo, there is no requital.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1563
“Thy life itself interpreteth unto us this dream, O Zarathustra!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3065
Out of your seed there may one day arise for me a genuine son and perfect heir: but that time is distant. Ye yourselves are not those unto whom my heritage and name belong.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2249
Behold, here is a new table; but where are my brethren who will carry it with me to the valley and into hearts of flesh?—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1743
And while Zarathustra thus spake, he laughed at himself with melancholy and bitterness. What! Zarathustra, said he, wilt thou even sing consolation to the sea?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 679
Terrible is aloneness with the judge and avenger of one’s own law. Thus is a star projected into desert space, and into the icy breath of aloneness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1096
Otherwise, however, would the tarantulas have it. “Let it be very justice for the world to become full of the storms of our vengeance”—thus do they talk to one another.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 316
Neither is Zarathustra indignant at a convalescent who looketh tenderly on his delusions, and at midnight stealeth round the grave of his God; but sickness and a sick frame remain even in his tears.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1521
Gold doth his breath exhale, and golden rain: so doth his heart desire. What are ashes and smoke and hot dregs to him!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2965
What? Must I ever be on the way? Whirled by every wind, unsettled, driven about? O earth, thou hast become too round for me!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1407
Bad air is always about you and your repasts: your lascivious thoughts, your lies, and secrets are indeed in the air!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2054
They sit for long evenings beside one another, and say: “Let us again become like little children and say, ‘good God!’”—ruined in mouths and stomachs by the pious confectioners.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1668
But disguised do I want to see YOU, ye neighbours and fellowmen, and well-attired and vain and estimable, as “the good and just;”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1606
This, yea, this alone is REVENGE itself: the Will’s antipathy to time, and its “It was.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1332
Also his hero-will hath he still to unlearn: an exalted one shall he be, and not only a sublime one:—the ether itself should raise him, the will-less one!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2589
Ready for lightning in its dark bosom, and for the redeeming flash of light, charged with lightnings which say Yea! which laugh Yea! ready for divining flashes of lightning:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3015
Who art thou then, O my soul!” (and here he became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 583
Do I counsel you to chastity? Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many almost a vice.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1822
The word blew to me through the keyhole and said “Come!” The door sprang subtlely open unto me, and said “Go!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2394
On that account want I the honest ones to say to one another: “We love each other: let us SEE TO IT that we maintain our love! Or shall our pledging be blundering?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 161
“What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?”—so asketh the last man and blinketh.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2522
O my soul, I restored to thee liberty over the created and the uncreated; and who knoweth, as thou knowest, the voluptuousness of the future?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3117
Have ye courage, O my brethren? Are ye stout-hearted? NOT the courage before witnesses, but anchorite and eagle courage, which not even a God any longer beholdeth?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2283
O my brethren, concerning the stars and the future there hath hitherto been only illusion, and not knowledge; and THEREFORE concerning good and evil there hath hitherto been only illusion and not knowledge!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 28
“Zarathustra born on lake Urmi; left his home in his thirtieth year, went into the province of Aria, and, during ten years of solitude in the mountains, composed the Zend-Avesta.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 916
God is a thought—it maketh all the straight crooked, and all that standeth reel. What? Time would be gone, and all the perishable would be but a lie?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3031
At house and home with me shall no one despair: in my purlieus do I protect every one from his wild beasts. And that is the first thing which I offer you: security!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 628
Verily, my brother, if thou knewest but a people’s need, its land, its sky, and its neighbour, then wouldst thou divine the law of its surmountings, and why it climbeth up that ladder to its hope.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3029
To myself have ye given this power,—a good gift, mine honourable guests! An excellent guest’s-present! Well, do not then upbraid when I also offer you something of mine.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1101
What the father hath hid cometh out in the son; and oft have I found in the son the father’s revealed secret.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 68
Zarathustra CREATED the most portentous error, MORALITY, consequently he should also be the first to PERCEIVE that error, not only because he has had longer and greater experience of the subject than any other thinker—all history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things:—the more important point is that Zarathustra was more truthful than any other thinker.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 305
But that “other world” is well concealed from man, that dehumanised, inhuman world, which is a celestial naught; and the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 917
To think this is giddiness and vertigo to human limbs, and even vomiting to the stomach: verily, the reeling sickness do I call it, to conjecture such a thing.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2600
If ever I have laughed with the laughter of the creative lightning, to which the long thunder of the deed followeth, grumblingly, but obediently:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1575
The soothsayer, however, shall eat and drink at my side: and verily, I will yet show him a sea in which he can drown himself!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1876
But thou blushest? Have I spoken unspeakable things? Have I abused, when I meant to bless thee?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 615
Art thou a slave? Then thou canst not be a friend. Art thou a tyrant? Then thou canst not have friends.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2206
Verily, I learned waiting also, and thoroughly so,—but only waiting for MYSELF. And above all did I learn standing and walking and running and leaping and climbing and dancing.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2149
Passion for power: the terrible teacher of great contempt, which preacheth to their face to cities and empires: “Away with thee!”—until a voice crieth out of themselves: “Away with ME!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 134
I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 171
They are clever and know all that hath happened: so there is no end to their raillery. People still fall out, but are soon reconciled—otherwise it spoileth their stomachs.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 559
Exhausted I see thee, by poisonous flies; bleeding I see thee, and torn at a hundred spots; and thy pride will not even upbraid.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1215
For thus do things stand with us three. In my heart do I love only Life—and verily, most when I hate her!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3123
Such things, however, are not said for long ears. Every word, also, is not suited for every mouth. These are fine far-away things: at them sheep’s claws shall not grasp!