Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
3,679 passages indexed from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) — Page 47 of 74
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2130
How I thank my morning-dream that I thus at to-day’s dawn, weighed the world! As a humanly good thing did it come unto me, this dream and heart-comforter!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1704
And there was spoken unto me for the last time: “O Zarathustra, thy fruits are ripe, but thou art not ripe for thy fruits!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1100
Fretted conceit and suppressed envy—perhaps your fathers’ conceit and envy: in you break they forth as flame and frenzy of vengeance.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 55
There is an instinct for rhythmic relations which embraces wide areas of forms (length, the need of a wide-embracing rhythm, is almost the measure of the force of an inspiration, a sort of counterpart to its pressure and tension). Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3048
Now do the waves rise and rise around thy mountain, O Zarathustra. And however high be thy height, many of them must rise up to thee: thy boat shall not rest much longer on dry ground.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 896
Verily, like a storm cometh my happiness, and my freedom! But mine enemies shall think that THE EVIL ONE roareth over their heads.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2256
He who is of the populace wisheth to live gratuitously; we others, however, to whom life hath given itself—we are ever considering WHAT we can best give IN RETURN!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1632
This, this is MY declivity and my danger, that my gaze shooteth towards the summit, and my hand would fain clutch and lean—on the depth!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2525
O my soul, I have taken from thee all obeying and knee-bending and homage-paying; I have myself given thee the names, “Change of need” and “Fate.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3679
The above I know to be open to much criticism. I shall be grateful to all those who will be kind enough to show me where and how I have gone wrong; but I should like to point out that, as they stand, I have not given to these Notes by any means their final form.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3059
My arms and my legs, however, I do not treat indulgently, I DO NOT TREAT MY WARRIORS INDULGENTLY: how then could ye be fit for MY warfare?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 926
All FEELING suffereth in me, and is in prison: but my WILLING ever cometh to me as mine emancipator and comforter.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 237
Or is it this: To be sick and dismiss comforters, and make friends of the deaf, who never hear thy requests?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 622
No people could live without first valuing; if a people will maintain itself, however, it must not value as its neighbour valueth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2511
I come again with this sun, with this earth, with this eagle, with this serpent—NOT to a new life, or a better life, or a similar life:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 465
But they only are refuted, and their eye, which seeth only one aspect of existence.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 878
With these words Zarathustra started up, not however like a person in anguish seeking relief, but rather like a seer and a singer whom the spirit inspireth. With amazement did his eagle and serpent gaze upon him: for a coming bliss overspread his countenance like the rosy dawn.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1527
But it may have been my shadow. Ye have surely heard something of the Wanderer and his Shadow?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3514
Here we seem to have a puzzle. Zarathustra himself, while relating his experience with the fire-dog to his disciples, fails to get them interested in his narrative, and we also may be only too ready to turn over these pages under the impression that they are little more than a mere phantasy or poetical flight. Zarathustra’s interview with the fire-dog is, however, of great importance.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2912
I love the great despisers. Man is something that hath to be surpassed.”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2882
Every one else would have thrown to me his alms, his pity, in look and speech. But for that—I am not beggar enough: that didst thou divine.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1216
But that I am fond of Wisdom, and often too fond, is because she remindeth me very strongly of Life!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1186
Many suns circle in desert space: to all that is dark do they speak with their light—but to me they are silent.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2510
But the plexus of causes returneth in which I am intertwined,—it will again create me! I myself pertain to the causes of the eternal return.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 264
Ten times must thou laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise thy stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb thee in the night.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1755
Mutely marching over the scornful clinking of pebbles, trampling the stone that let it slip: thus did my foot force its way upwards.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1656
And oft did I ask with a shake of the head: Why still rattle, ye rattle-snakes?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 893
The spear which I hurl at mine enemies! How grateful am I to mine enemies that I may at last hurl it!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3544
It is clear that this applies to all those breathless and hasty “tasters of everything,” who plunge too rashly into the sea of independent thought and “heresy,” and who, having miscalculated their strength, find it impossible to keep their head above water. “A little older, a little colder,” says Nietzsche. They soon clamber back to the conventions of the age they intended reforming. The French then say “le diable se fait hermite,” but these men, as a rule, have never been devils, neither do they become angels; for, in order to be really good or evil, some strength and deep breathing is required. Those who are more interested in supporting orthodoxy than in being over nice concerning the kind of support they give it, often refer to these people as evidence in favour of the true faith.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3238
—To-day, when everything tottereth, when all the earth quaketh. Ye, however, when I see what eyes ye make, it almost seemeth to me that ye seek MORE INSECURITY,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1084
Verily, no food of which the impure could be fellow-partakers! Fire, would they think they devoured, and burn their mouths!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3228
Thou seducest, thou false one, thou subtle one, to unknown desires and deserts. And alas, that such as thou should talk and make ado about the TRUTH!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3432
When all this went on Zarathustra spake only a word: “MY CHILDREN ARE NIGH, MY CHILDREN”—, then he became quite mute. His heart, however, was loosed, and from his eyes there dropped down tears and fell upon his hands. And he took no further notice of anything, but sat there motionless, without repelling the animals further. Then flew the doves to and fro, and perched on his shoulder, and caressed his white hair, and did not tire of their tenderness and joyousness. The strong lion, however, licked always the tears that fell on Zarathustra’s hands, and roared and growled shyly. Thus did these animals do.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2908
“How poor indeed is man,” thought he in his heart, “how ugly, how wheezy, how full of hidden shame!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1677
The hour-hand moved on, the timepiece of my life drew breath—never did I hear such stillness around me, so that my heart was terrified.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1999
They hound one another, and know not whither! They inflame one another, and know not why! They tinkle with their pinchbeck, they jingle with their gold.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2745
For the sake of the leech did I lie here by this swamp, like a fisher, and already had mine outstretched arm been bitten ten times, when there biteth a still finer leech at my blood, Zarathustra himself!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 920
But of time and of becoming shall the best similes speak: a praise shall they be, and a justification of all perishableness!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1726
To learn TO LOOK AWAY FROM oneself, is necessary in order to see MANY THINGS:—this hardiness is needed by every mountain-climber.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3077
A word at the right time: didst thou not invite me to TABLE? And here are many who have made long journeys. Thou dost not mean to feed us merely with discourses?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2872
—“Stay! Do not pass by! I have divined what axe it was that struck thee to the ground: hail to thee, O Zarathustra, that thou art again upon thy feet!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1412
Serpents’ filth and evil odour, the distance concealed from me: and that a lizard’s craft prowled thereabouts lasciviously.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2210
By divers ways and wendings did I arrive at my truth; not by one ladder did I mount to the height where mine eye roveth into my remoteness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1694
Knowest thou not who is most needed by all? He who commandeth great things.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 549
But the hour presseth them; so they press thee. And also from thee they want Yea or Nay. Alas! thou wouldst set thy chair betwixt For and Against?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 576
Flee, my friend, into thy solitude—and thither, where a rough strong breeze bloweth. It is not thy lot to be a fly-flap.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2640
And when I desired honey I only desired bait, and sweet mucus and mucilage, for which even the mouths of growling bears, and strange, sulky, evil birds, water:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 522
It seeketh to allure by means of you, the many-too-many! Yea, a hellish artifice hath here been devised, a death-horse jingling with the trappings of divine honours!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 919
All the imperishable—that’s but a simile, and the poets lie too much.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 41
“I found no one ripe for many of my thoughts; the case of ‘Zarathustra’ proves that one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by any one.” My brother was very much discouraged by the feebleness of the response he was given, and as he was striving just then to give up the practice of taking hydrate of chloral—a drug he had begun to take while ill with influenza,—the following spring, spent in Rome, was a somewhat gloomy one for him.