Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
3,679 passages indexed from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) — Page 41 of 74
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1600
Not backward can the Will will; that it cannot break time and time’s desire—that is the Will’s lonesomest tribulation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2177
Other singers are there, to be sure, to whom only the full house maketh the voice soft, the hand eloquent, the eye expressive, the heart wakeful:—those do I not resemble.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 139
I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1716
The time is now past when accidents could befall me; and what COULD now fall to my lot which would not already be mine own!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1943
—Such as love with great love, such as love with great contempt!” Thus speaketh Zarathustra the godless.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2914
“What hath happened unto me?” he asked himself, “something warm and living quickeneth me; it must be in the neighbourhood.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2458
Step out of thy cave: the world waiteth for thee as a garden. The wind playeth with heavy fragrance which seeketh for thee; and all brooks would like to run after thee.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 367
He whom the flame of jealousy encompasseth, turneth at last, like the scorpion, the poisoned sting against himself.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3647
Nietzsche would be a hard bed to higher men. He would make them harder; for, in order to be a law unto himself, man must possess the requisite hardness. “I wait for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul.” He says in par. 6 of “Higher Man”:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2674
The soothsayer, however, did not heed Zarathustra’s alarm, but listened and listened in the downward direction. When, however, it had been still there for a long while, he looked behind, and saw Zarathustra standing trembling.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 394
Many things in your good people cause me disgust, and verily, not their evil. I would that they had a madness by which they succumbed, like this pale criminal!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1190
Oh, ye only is it, ye dark, nightly ones, that extract warmth from the shining ones! Oh, ye only drink milk and refreshment from the light’s udders!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1724
Upon thine own head, and beyond thine own heart! Now must the gentlest in thee become the hardest.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2718
(Here, however, it happened that the ass also found utterance: it said distinctly and with malevolence, Y-E-A.)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1955
A hard guest is he,—but I honour him, and do not worship, like the tenderlings, the pot-bellied fire-idol.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1545
Hear, I pray you, the dream that I dreamed, my friends, and help me to divine its meaning!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1465
And that she stealeth to their ear to whisper secrets into it, and amorous flatteries: of this do they plume and pride themselves, before all mortals!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2957
Thus spake Zarathustra to his heart and ran away. But the one behind followed after him, so that immediately there were three runners, one after the other—namely, foremost the voluntary beggar, then Zarathustra, and thirdly, and hindmost, his shadow. But not long had they run thus when Zarathustra became conscious of his folly, and shook off with one jerk all his irritation and detestation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2585
“Yea,” answered I, hesitatingly, “but thou knowest it also”—And I said something into her ear, in amongst her confused, yellow, foolish tresses.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 521
Everything will it give YOU, if YE worship it, the new idol: thus it purchaseth the lustre of your virtue, and the glance of your proud eyes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3052
Thus spake the king on the right, and seized the hand of Zarathustra in order to kiss it; but Zarathustra checked his veneration, and stepped back frightened, fleeing as it were, silently and suddenly into the far distance. After a little while, however, he was again at home with his guests, looked at them with clear scrutinising eyes, and said:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 870
Thus passed with the lonesome one months and years; his wisdom meanwhile increased, and caused him pain by its abundance.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3562
Nietzsche himself declares this to be the most decisive portion of the whole of “Thus Spake Zarathustra”. It is a sort of epitome of his leading doctrines. In verse 12 of the second paragraph, we learn how he himself would fain have abandoned the poetical method of expression had he not known only too well that the only chance a new doctrine has of surviving, nowadays, depends upon its being given to the world in some kind of art-form. Just as prophets, centuries ago, often had to have recourse to the mask of madness in order to mitigate the hatred of those who did not and could not see as they did; so, to-day, the struggle for existence among opinions and values is so great, that an art-form is practically the only garb in which a new philosophy can dare to introduce itself to us.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1149
Not that I on that account upbraid them: but serving ones do they remain, and harnessed ones, even though they glitter in golden harness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2888
As the heron looketh contemptuously at shallow pools, with backward-bent head, so do I look at the throng of grey little waves and wills and souls.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 474
Were they consistently pitiful, then would they make their neighbours sick of life. To be wicked—that would be their true goodness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3186
And verily, a statue have I not become, not yet do I stand there stiff, stupid and stony, like a pillar; I love fast racing.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1333
He hath subdued monsters, he hath solved enigmas. But he should also redeem his monsters and enigmas; into heavenly children should he transform them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1801
No longer shepherd, no longer man—a transfigured being, a light-surrounded being, that LAUGHED! Never on earth laughed a man as HE laughed!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1066
Are poisoned fountains necessary, and stinking fires, and filthy dreams, and maggots in the bread of life?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 27
During the month of August 1881 my brother resolved to reveal the teaching of the Eternal Recurrence, in dithyrambic and psalmodic form, through the mouth of Zarathustra. Among the notes of this period, we found a page on which is written the first definite plan of “Thus Spake Zarathustra”:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3169
And if great things have been a failure with you, have ye yourselves therefore—been a failure? And if ye yourselves have been a failure, hath man therefore—been a failure? If man, however, hath been a failure: well then! never mind!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1931
And verily, many a chance came imperiously unto me: but still more imperiously did my WILL speak unto it,—then did it lie imploringly upon its knees—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1953
There do I laugh at my stern guest, and am still fond of him; because he cleareth my house of flies, and quieteth many little noises.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 986
False values and fatuous words: these are the worst monsters for mortals—long slumbereth and waiteth the fate that is in them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3255
Thus spake the old magician, and the higher men applauded him; so that Zarathustra went round, and mischievously and lovingly shook hands with his friends,—like one who hath to make amends and apologise to every one for something. When however he had thereby come to the door of his cave, lo, then had he again a longing for the good air outside, and for his animals,—and wished to steal out.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1249
“All days shall be holy unto me”—so spake once the wisdom of my youth: verily, the language of a joyous wisdom!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 606
Thou wouldst wear no raiment before thy friend? It is in honour of thy friend that thou showest thyself to him as thou art? But he wisheth thee to the devil on that account!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3116
And rather despair than submit yourselves. And verily, I love you, because ye know not to-day how to live, ye higher men! For thus do YE live—best!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3004
—An old brown drop of golden happiness, golden wine? Something whisketh over it, its happiness laugheth. Thus—laugheth a God. Hush!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2239
Verily, also new stars did I make them see, along with new nights; and over cloud and day and night, did I spread out laughter like a gay-coloured canopy.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1562
Thus did Zarathustra relate his dream, and then was silent: for as yet he knew not the interpretation thereof. But the disciple whom he loved most arose quickly, seized Zarathustra’s hand, and said:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3600
This is a final paean which Zarathustra sings to Eternity and the marriage-ring of rings, the ring of the Eternal Recurrence.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 40
As a matter of fact, however, what he complained of most was his spiritual condition—that indescribable forsakenness—to which he gives such heartrending expression in “Zarathustra”. Even the reception which the first part met with at the hands of friends and acquaintances was extremely disheartening: for almost all those to whom he presented copies of the work misunderstood it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3205
“O pure odours around me,” cried he, “O blessed stillness around me! But where are mine animals? Hither, hither, mine eagle and my serpent!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 592
Not when the truth is filthy, but when it is shallow, doth the discerning one go unwillingly into its waters.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2844
“Thou old pope,” said here Zarathustra interposing, “hast thou seen THAT with thine eyes? It could well have happened in that way: in that way, AND also otherwise. When Gods die they always die many kinds of death.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2035
Around light and liberty did they once flutter like gnats and young poets. A little older, a little colder: and already are they mystifiers, and mumblers and mollycoddles.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2675
“O Zarathustra,” he began, with sorrowful voice, “thou dost not stand there like one whose happiness maketh him giddy: thou wilt have to dance lest thou tumble down!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2732
“Pardon me,” said he to the trodden one, who had got up enraged, and had seated himself, “pardon me, and hear first of all a parable.