Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 929

And also in discerning do I feel only my will’s procreating and evolving delight; and if there be innocence in my knowledge, it is because there is will to procreation in it.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1584

When Zarathustra had spoken thus unto the hunchback, and unto those of whom the hunchback was the mouthpiece and advocate, then did he turn to his disciples in profound dejection, and said:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 116

Lo, I teach you the Superman: he is that sea; in him can your great contempt be submerged.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2469

Everything goeth, everything returneth; eternally rolleth the wheel of existence. Everything dieth, everything blossometh forth again; eternally runneth on the year of existence.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1276

Your will and your valuations have ye put on the river of becoming; it betrayeth unto me an old Will to Power, what is believed by the people as good and evil.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3526

“The Vision and the Enigma” is perhaps an example of Nietzsche in his most obscure vein. We must know how persistently he inveighed against the oppressing and depressing influence of man’s sense of guilt and consciousness of sin in order fully to grasp the significance of this discourse. Slowly but surely, he thought the values of Christianity and Judaic traditions had done their work in the minds of men.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 747

But how could I be just from the heart! How can I give every one his own! Let this be enough for me: I give unto every one mine own.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2554

Unto thee did I spring: then fledst thou back from my bound; and towards me waved thy fleeing, flying tresses round!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2548

That I bade thee sing,—say now, say: WHICH of us now—oweth thanks?— Better still, however: sing unto me, sing, O my soul! And let me thank thee!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1939

“It giveth itself”—that is also a doctrine of submission. But I say unto you, ye comfortable ones, that IT TAKETH TO ITSELF, and will ever take more and more from you!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 466

Shrouded in thick melancholy, and eager for the little casualties that bring death: thus do they wait, and clench their teeth.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 190

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud—man.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 800

Ah! ye preach patience with what is earthly? This earthly is it that hath too much patience with you, ye blasphemers!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2672

“But thou knowest it, certainly,” answered the soothsayer warmly, “why dost thou conceal thyself? It is THE HIGHER MAN that crieth for thee!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 915

God is a conjecture: but who could drink all the bitterness of this conjecture without dying? Shall his faith be taken from the creating one, and from the eagle his flights into eagle-heights?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2917

Then ran Zarathustra up speedily and drove the animals aside; for he feared that some one had here met with harm, which the pity of the kine would hardly be able to relieve. But in this he was deceived; for behold, there sat a man on the ground who seemed to be persuading the animals to have no fear of him, a peaceable man and Preacher-on-the-Mount, out of whose eyes kindness itself preached. “What dost thou seek here?” called out Zarathustra in astonishment.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 520

Heroes and honourable ones, it would fain set up around it, the new idol! Gladly it basketh in the sunshine of good consciences,—the cold monster!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1619

Until the creating Will saith thereto: “But thus do I will it! Thus shall I will it!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 842

A hundred times hitherto hath spirit as well as virtue flown away and blundered. Alas! in our body dwelleth still all this delusion and blundering: body and will hath it there become.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3226

Thus had I sunken one day From mine own truth-insanity, From mine own fervid day-longings, Of day aweary, sick of sunshine, —Sunk downwards, evenwards, shadowwards: By one sole trueness All scorched and thirsty: —Bethinkst thou still, bethinkst thou, burning heart, How then thou thirstedest?— THAT I SHOULD BANNED BE FROM ALL THE TRUENESS! MERE FOOL! MERE POET!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1990

Meanwhile do I run with warm feet hither and thither on mine olive-mount: in the sunny corner of mine olive-mount do I sing, and mock at all pity.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2336

And also the learning shall ye LEARN only from me, the learning well!—He who hath ears let him hear!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1212

Thus did she laugh, the unbelievable one; but never do I believe her and her laughter, when she speaketh evil of herself.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1157

And with mountains shall the discerning one learn to BUILD! It is a small thing for the spirit to remove mountains,—did ye know that before?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1299

Whatever I create, and however much I love it,—soon must I be adverse to it, and to my love: so willeth my will.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2725

O Zarathustra, our fathers’ blood stirred in our veins at such words: it was like the voice of spring to old wine-casks.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1039

We bite no one, and go out of the way of him who would bite; and in all matters we have the opinion that is given us.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3138

Have a good distrust to-day ye, higher men, ye enheartened ones! Ye open-hearted ones! And keep your reasons secret! For this to-day is that of the populace.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2490

—“Ah, man returneth eternally! The small man returneth eternally!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1067

Not my hatred, but my loathing, gnawed hungrily at my life! Ah, ofttimes became I weary of spirit, when I found even the rabble spiritual!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2373

And often is it greater bravery to keep quiet and pass by, that THEREBY one may reserve oneself for a worthier foe!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 692

To many a one mayest thou not give thy hand, but only thy paw; and I wish thy paw also to have claws.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 510

Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as sin against laws and customs.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2584

—Thou thinkest thereon, O Zarathustra, I know it—of soon leaving me!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1131

The people have ye served and the people’s superstition—NOT the truth!—all ye famous wise ones! And just on that account did they pay you reverence.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1612

“And this itself is justice, the law of time—that he must devour his children:” thus did madness preach.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2053

Did it perhaps squat there along with another night-moth? For everywhere do I smell small concealed communities; and wherever there are closets there are new devotees therein, and the atmosphere of devotees.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 353

An earthly virtue is it which I love: little prudence is therein, and the least everyday wisdom.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1947

And SOON shall they stand before me like dry grass and prairie, and verily, weary of themselves—and panting for FIRE, more than for water!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3283

“They are merry,” he began again, “and who knoweth? perhaps at their host’s expense; and if they have learned of me to laugh, still it is not MY laughter they have learned.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 666

My brethren, I advise you not to neighbour-love—I advise you to furthest love!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3666

When the magician retaliates by saying that the spiritually conscientious one could have understood little of his song, the latter replies: “Thou praisest me in that thou separatest me from thyself.” The speech of the scientific man to his fellow higher men is well worth studying.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1237

Ah, we were made to remain nigh unto each other, ye kindly strange marvels; and not like timid birds did ye come to me and my longing—nay, but as trusting ones to a trusting one!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 31

His friends caused him many disappointments, which were the more bitter to him, inasmuch as he regarded friendship as such a sacred institution; and for the first time in his life he realised the whole horror of that loneliness to which, perhaps, all greatness is condemned. But to be forsaken is something very different from deliberately choosing blessed loneliness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 788

And when shall I want it?—He that hath a goal and an heir, wanteth death at the right time for the goal and the heir.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1942

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves—but first be such as LOVE THEMSELVES—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1796

Ye daring ones around me! Ye venturers and adventurers, and whoever of you have embarked with cunning sails on unexplored seas! Ye enigma-enjoyers!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 706

As I went on my way alone to-day, at the hour when the sun declineth, there met me an old woman, and she spake thus unto my soul:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 751

I have a question for thee alone, my brother: like a sounding-lead, cast I this question into thy soul, that I may know its depth.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2355

—All the swarming vermin of the “cultured,” that—feast on the sweat of every hero!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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