Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
3,679 passages indexed from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) — Page 46 of 74
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1589
A seer, a purposer, a creator, a future itself, and a bridge to the future—and alas! also as it were a cripple on this bridge: all that is Zarathustra.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 261
Ten times a day must thou overcome thyself: that causeth wholesome weariness, and is poppy to the soul.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2466
Have not names and tones been given unto things that man may refresh himself with them? It is a beautiful folly, speaking; therewith danceth man over everything.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 708
And I answered her: “Concerning woman, one should only talk unto men.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 446
To purify himself, is still necessary for the freedman of the spirit. Much of the prison and the mould still remaineth in him: pure hath his eye still to become.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3390
—Have cleverer hands, grasp after deeper happiness, after deeper unhappiness, grasp after some God; grasp not after me:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 22
Another ideal runs on before us, a strange, tempting ideal full of danger, to which we should not like to persuade any one, because we do not so readily acknowledge any one’s RIGHT THERETO: the ideal of a spirit who plays naively (that is to say involuntarily and from overflowing abundance and power) with everything that has hitherto been called holy, good, intangible, or divine; to whom the loftiest conception which the people have reasonably made their measure of value, would already practically imply danger, ruin, abasement, or at least relaxation, blindness, or temporary self-forgetfulness; the ideal of a humanly superhuman welfare and benevolence, which will often enough appear INHUMAN, for example, when put alongside of all past seriousness on earth, and alongside of all past solemnities in bearing, word, tone, look, morality, and pursuit, as their truest involuntary parody—and WITH which, nevertheless, perhaps THE GREAT SERIOUSNESS only commences, when the proper interrogative mark is set up, the fate of the soul changes, the hour-hand moves, and tragedy begins...”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2368
Everything of to-day—it falleth, it decayeth; who would preserve it! But I—I wish also to push it!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2120
In my dream, in my last morning-dream, I stood to-day on a promontory— beyond the world; I held a pair of scales, and WEIGHED the world.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 126
Lo, I teach you the Superman: he is that lightning, he is that frenzy!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2910
Even this man hath loved himself, as he hath despised himself,—a great lover methinketh he is, and a great despiser.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1911
“I serve, thou servest, we serve”—so chanteth here even the hypocrisy of the rulers—and alas! if the first lord be ONLY the first servant!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1682
Then was there again spoken unto me without voice: “Thou WILT not, Zarathustra? Is this true? Conceal thyself not behind thy defiance!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 243
What is the great dragon which the spirit is no longer inclined to call Lord and God? “Thou shalt,” is the great dragon called. But the spirit of the lion saith, “I will.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3566
Nietzsche teaches that nothing is stable,—not even values,—not even the concepts good and evil. He likens life unto a stream. But foot-bridges and railings span the stream, and they seem to stand firm. Many will be reminded of good and evil when they look upon these structures; for thus these same values stand over the stream of life, and life flows on beneath them and leaves them standing. When, however, winter comes and the stream gets frozen, many inquire: “Should not everything—STAND STILL?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 922
Yea, much bitter dying must there be in your life, ye creators! Thus are ye advocates and justifiers of all perishableness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2673
“The higher man?” cried Zarathustra, horror-stricken: “what wanteth HE? What wanteth HE? The higher man! What wanteth he here?”—and his skin covered with perspiration.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1082
Cast but your pure eyes into the well of my delight, my friends! How could it become turbid thereby! It shall laugh back to you with ITS purity.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3533
This, like “The Wanderer”, is one of the many introspective passages in the work, and is full of innuendos and hints as to the Nietzschean outlook on life.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1439
We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 114
But ye, also, my brethren, tell me: What doth your body say about your soul? Is your soul not poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 426
“Why art thou frightened on that account?—But it is the same with man as with the tree.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 93
“No,” replied Zarathustra, “I give no alms. I am not poor enough for that.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3565
This refers, of course, to the reception pioneers of Nietzsche’s stamp meet with at the hands of their contemporaries.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2769
Smite deeper! Smite yet once more! Pierce through and rend my heart! What mean’th this torture With dull, indented arrows? Why look’st thou hither, Of human pain not weary, With mischief-loving, godly flash-glances? Not murder wilt thou, But torture, torture? For why—ME torture, Thou mischief-loving, unfamiliar God?—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 271
He who leadeth his sheep to the greenest pasture, shall always be for me the best shepherd: so doth it accord with good sleep.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 400
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3137
Is this to-day not that of the populace? The populace however knoweth not what is great and what is small, what is straight and what is honest: it is innocently crooked, it ever lieth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1825
But brooding lay the sun of my love upon me, in his own juice stewed Zarathustra,—then did shadows and doubts fly past me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 176
Calm is my soul, and clear, like the mountains in the morning. But they think me cold, and a mocker with terrible jests.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1520
And that I may also maintain the right, hear the story of another fire-dog; he speaketh actually out of the heart of the earth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 678
Canst thou give unto thyself thy bad and thy good, and set up thy will as a law over thee? Canst thou be judge for thyself, and avenger of thy law?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 945
May my destiny ever lead unafflicted ones like you across my path, and those with whom I MAY have hope and repast and honey in common!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 694
Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way to thyself! And past thyself and thy seven devils leadeth thy way!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 435
Here the youth was silent. And Zarathustra contemplated the tree beside which they stood, and spake thus:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 49
The second part of “Zarathustra” was written between the 26th of June and the 6th July. “This summer, finding myself once more in the sacred place where the first thought of ‘Zarathustra’ flashed across my mind, I conceived the second part. Ten days sufficed. Neither for the second, the first, nor the third part, have I required a day longer.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1505
Where ye are, there must always be dregs at hand, and much that is spongy, hollow, and compressed: it wanteth to have freedom.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3395
—Is the wind not a dog? It whineth, it barketh, it howleth. Ah! Ah! how she sigheth! how she laugheth, how she wheezeth and panteth, the midnight!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3060
With you I should spoil all my victories. And many of you would tumble over if ye but heard the loud beating of my drums.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2046
Unto them I look into the eye,—before them I say it unto their face and unto the blush on their cheeks: Ye are those who again PRAY!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2524
O my soul, I taught thee so to persuade that thou persuadest even the grounds themselves to thee: like the sun, which persuadeth even the sea to its height.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1926
And especially do their teachers of submission shout this;—but precisely in their ears do I love to cry: “Yea! I AM Zarathustra, the godless!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2955
“It is verily becoming too much for me; these mountains swarm; my kingdom is no longer of THIS world; I require new mountains.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1127
“Punishment must there be, and justice”—so thinketh it: “not gratuitously shall he here sing songs in honour of enmity!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3136
Take good care there, ye higher men! For nothing is more precious to me, and rarer, than honesty.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2275
“Fundamentally standeth everything still”—that is an appropriate winter doctrine, good cheer for an unproductive period, a great comfort for winter-sleepers and fireside-loungers.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1224
And if thou wert right—is it proper to say THAT in such wise to my face! But now, pray, speak also of thy Wisdom!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1260
Murderous minstrel, instrument of evil, most innocent instrument! Already did I stand prepared for the best dance: then didst thou slay my rapture with thy tones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 651
Higher than love to your neighbour is love to the furthest and future ones; higher still than love to men, is love to things and phantoms.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2516
When the animals had spoken these words they were silent and waited, so that Zarathustra might say something to them: but Zarathustra did not hear that they were silent. On the contrary, he lay quietly with closed eyes like a person sleeping, although he did not sleep; for he communed just then with his soul. The serpent, however, and the eagle, when they found him silent in such wise, respected the great stillness around him, and prudently retired.