Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3501
Here Zarathustra sings about the ideals and friendships of his youth. Verses 27 to 31 undoubtedly refer to Richard Wagner (see Note on Chapter LXV.).
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1639
This providence is over my fate, that I have to be without foresight.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3206
Tell me, mine animals: these higher men, all of them—do they perhaps not SMELL well? O pure odours around me! Now only do I know and feel how I love you, mine animals.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3318
The ugliest man is to blame for it all: he hath reawakened him. And if he say that he once killed him, with Gods DEATH is always just a prejudice.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1963
For especially wicked am I in the morning: at the early hour when the pail rattleth at the well, and horses neigh warmly in grey lanes:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1209
But changeable am I only, and wild, and altogether a woman, and no virtuous one:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3423
And if they remained in their chambers whilst thou art already awake, and comest and bestowest and distributest, how would thy proud modesty upbraid for it!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1891
I am courteous towards them, as towards all small annoyances; to be prickly towards what is small, seemeth to me wisdom for hedgehogs.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2401
The earthquake discloseth new fountains. In the earthquake of old peoples new fountains burst forth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3063
And though ye be high and of a higher type, much in you is crooked and misshapen. There is no smith in the world that could hammer you right and straight for me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3457
For when the dead-leaf butterfly is in danger, it clings to the side of a twig, and what it says to its foe is practically this: “I am not a butterfly, I am a dead leaf, and can be of no use to thee.” This is a lie which is good to the butterfly, for it preserves it. In nature every species of organic being instinctively adopts and practises those acts which most conduce to the prevalence or supremacy of its kind.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1275
The ignorant, to be sure, the people—they are like a river on which a boat floateth along: and in the boat sit the estimates of value, solemn and disguised.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3207
—And Zarathustra said once more: “I love you, mine animals!” The eagle, however, and the serpent pressed close to him when he spake these words, and looked up to him. In this attitude were they all three silent together, and sniffed and sipped the good air with one another. For the air here outside was better than with the higher men.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1867
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but fugitive shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 553
Away from the market-place and from fame taketh place all that is great: away from the market-place and from fame have ever dwelt the devisers of new values.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1783
And this slow spider which creepeth in the moonlight, and this moonlight itself, and thou and I in this gateway whispering together, whispering of eternal things—must we not all have already existed?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1604
And thus doth it roll stones out of animosity and ill-humour, and taketh revenge on whatever doth not, like it, feel rage and ill-humour.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3179
He—did not love sufficiently: otherwise would he also have loved us, the laughing ones! But he hated and hooted us; wailing and teeth-gnashing did he promise us.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1616
Unless the Will should at last deliver itself, and Willing become non-Willing—:” but ye know, my brethren, this fabulous song of madness!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3174
What wonder that many a vessel shattereth! Learn to laugh at yourselves, as ye ought to laugh! Ye higher men, O, how much is still possible!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 133
I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2313
Therefore preach the visionaries and bowed-heads (whose hearts are also bowed down): “The world itself is a filthy monster.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 711
Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the child. But what is woman for man?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2214
“This—is now MY way,—where is yours?” Thus did I answer those who asked me “the way.” For THE way—it doth not exist!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 164
They have left the regions where it is hard to live; for they need warmth. One still loveth one’s neighbour and rubbeth against him; for one needeth warmth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 129
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2103
Everything among them talketh, everything is out-talked. And that which yesterday was still too hard for time itself and its tooth, hangeth to-day, outchamped and outchewed, from the mouths of the men of to-day.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1200
And even the little God may he find, who is dearest to maidens: beside the well lieth he quietly, with closed eyes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3195
—Even the worst thing hath good dancing-legs: so learn, I pray you, ye higher men, to put yourselves on your proper legs!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2566
Now beside me! And quickly, wickedly springing! Now up! And over!—Alas! I have fallen myself overswinging!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3308
At this place in the litany, however, Zarathustra could no longer control himself; he himself cried out YE-A, louder even than the ass, and sprang into the midst of his maddened guests. “Whatever are you about, ye grown-up children?” he exclaimed, pulling up the praying ones from the ground. “Alas, if any one else, except Zarathustra, had seen you:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 391
Him who now turneth sick, the evil overtaketh which is now the evil: he seeketh to cause pain with that which causeth him pain. But there have been other ages, and another evil and good.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 551
On account of those abrupt ones, return into thy security: only in the market-place is one assailed by Yea? or Nay?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 953
I, however, am a bestower: willingly do I bestow as friend to friends. Strangers, however, and the poor, may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree: thus doth it cause less shame.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1092
Thus do I speak unto you in parable, ye who make the soul giddy, ye preachers of EQUALITY! Tarantulas are ye unto me, and secretly revengeful ones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 682
One day wilt thou see no longer thy loftiness, and see too closely thy lowliness; thy sublimity itself will frighten thee as a phantom. Thou wilt one day cry: “All is false!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1362
This, yea this, is bitterness to my bowels, that I can neither endure you naked nor clothed, ye present-day men!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1932
—Imploring that it might find home and heart with me, and saying flatteringly: “See, O Zarathustra, how friend only cometh unto friend!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2474
And ye—ye have made a lyre-lay out of it? Now, however, do I lie here, still exhausted with that biting and spitting-away, still sick with mine own salvation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2567
Oh, see me lying, thou arrogant one, and imploring grace! Gladly would I walk with thee—in some lovelier place!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1652
This is, however, my third manly prudence: I am not put out of conceit with the WICKED by your timorousness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2107
With suppressed truths, with fool’s hand and befooled heart, and rich in petty lies of pity:—thus have I ever lived among men.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2362
For the soul which hath the longest ladder, and can go deepest down: how could there fail to be most parasites upon it?—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2041
To those believers shall he who is of my type among men not bind his heart; in those spring-times and many-hued meadows shall he not believe, who knoweth the fickly faint-hearted human species!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1007
And when a person goeth through fire for his teaching—what doth that prove! It is more, verily, when out of one’s own burning cometh one’s own teaching!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3040
—In the end, however, grasping out for ITS dominion with strong, green branches, asking weighty questions of the wind, the storm, and whatever is at home on high places;
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 639
Peoples once hung over them tables of the good. Love which would rule and love which would obey, created for themselves such tables.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 856
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 15
This type must not be regarded as a fanciful figure: it is not a nebulous hope which is to be realised at some indefinitely remote period, thousands of years hence; nor is it a new species (in the Darwinian sense) of which we can know nothing, and which it would therefore be somewhat absurd to strive after. But it is meant to be a possibility which men of the present could realise with all their spiritual and physical energies, provided they adopted the new values.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1254
And when I performed my hardest task, and celebrated the triumph of my victories, then did ye make those who loved me call out that I then grieved them most.