Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 909
God is a conjecture: but I should like your conjecturing restricted to the conceivable.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1024
It is your dearest Self, your virtue. The ring’s thirst is in you: to reach itself again struggleth every ring, and turneth itself.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 954
Beggars, however, one should entirely do away with! Verily, it annoyeth one to give unto them, and it annoyeth one not to give unto them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2726
When the swords ran among one another like red-spotted serpents, then did our fathers become fond of life; the sun of every peace seemed to them languid and lukewarm, the long peace, however, made them ashamed.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 19
“We, the new, the nameless, the hard-to-understand,”—it says there,—“we firstlings of a yet untried future—we require for a new end also a new means, namely, a new healthiness, stronger, sharper, tougher, bolder and merrier than all healthiness hitherto.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1885
Everywhere do I see lower doorways: he who is of MY type can still go therethrough, but—he must stoop!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1494
About the same time that these sailors landed on the fire-isle, there was a rumour that Zarathustra had disappeared; and when his friends were asked about it, they said that he had gone on board a ship by night, without saying whither he was going.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2934
Wanton avidity, bilious envy, careworn revenge, populace-pride: all these struck mine eye. It is no longer true that the poor are blessed. The kingdom of heaven, however, is with the kine.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1958
Heartily, verily, even when I CREEP into bed—: there, still laugheth and wantoneth my hidden happiness; even my deceptive dream laugheth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2545
—Thy great deliverer, O my soul, the nameless one—for whom future songs only will find names! And verily, already hath thy breath the fragrance of future songs,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2191
And verily! Many a thing also that is OUR OWN is hard to bear! And many internal things in man are like the oyster—repulsive and slippery and hard to grasp;—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3331
Is it then true what they say, that thou hast again awakened him? And why? Was he not for good reasons killed and made away with?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1091
Revenge is in thy soul: wherever thou bitest, there ariseth black scab; with revenge, thy poison maketh the soul giddy!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2292
Thus is all the past abandoned: for it might some day happen for the populace to become master, and drown all time in shallow waters.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2587
If I be a diviner and full of the divining spirit which wandereth on high mountain-ridges, ‘twixt two seas,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3045
‘Doth Zarathustra still live? It is no longer worth while to live, everything is indifferent, everything is useless: or else—we must live with Zarathustra!’
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 186
When Zarathustra had said this the dying one did not reply further; but he moved his hand as if he sought the hand of Zarathustra in gratitude.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 921
Creating—that is the great salvation from suffering, and life’s alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2384
If THEY had—bread for nothing, alas! for what would THEY cry! Their maintainment—that is their true entertainment; and they shall have it hard!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 996
As corpses they thought to live; in black draped they their corpses; even in their talk do I still feel the evil flavour of charnel-houses.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1114
With these preachers of equality will I not be mixed up and confounded. For thus speaketh justice UNTO ME: “Men are not equal.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2953
“Away, away from me!” cried he once more, and heaved his stick at the fond beggar, who, however, ran nimbly away.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 933
Now rageth my hammer ruthlessly against its prison. From the stone fly the fragments: what’s that to me?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1526
“What am I to think of it!” said Zarathustra. “Am I indeed a ghost?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2717
—Even if it should happen to be a rhyme not suited for every one’s ears. I unlearned long ago to have consideration for long ears. Well then! Well now!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2794
A great man I wanted to appear, and persuaded many; but the lie hath been beyond my power. On it do I collapse.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1298
That I have to be struggle, and becoming, and purpose, and cross-purpose—ah, he who divineth my will, divineth well also on what CROOKED paths it hath to tread!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2397
Not only to propagate yourselves onwards but UPWARDS—thereto, O my brethren, may the garden of marriage help you!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2068
To me, however, did the heart writhe with laughter, and was like to break; it knew not where to go, and sunk into the midriff.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2541
—Thou wilt have to sing with passionate song, until all seas turn calm to hearken unto thy longing,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2247
—So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with GOLDEN oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2950
Now, however, take leave at once of thy kine, thou strange one! thou amiable one! though it be hard for thee. For they are thy warmest friends and preceptors!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3489
By destroying these particular instincts, that is to say by attempting to masculinise woman, and to feminise men, we jeopardise the future of our people. The general democratic movement of modern times, in its frantic struggle to mitigate all differences, is now invading even the world of sex. It is against this movement that Nietzsche raises his voice; he would have woman become ever more woman and man become ever more man.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 315
Gentle is Zarathustra to the sickly. Verily, he is not indignant at their modes of consolation and ingratitude. May they become convalescents and overcomers, and create higher bodies for themselves!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2161
Baser still it regardeth the obsequious, doggish one, who immediately lieth on his back, the submissive one; and there is also wisdom that is submissive, and doggish, and pious, and obsequious.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3041
—Answering more weightily, a commander, a victor! Oh! who should not ascend high mountains to behold such growths?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1218
And when once Life asked me: “Who is she then, this Wisdom?”—then said I eagerly: “Ah, yes! Wisdom!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1197
Cease not your dancing, ye lovely maidens! No game-spoiler hath come to you with evil eye, no enemy of maidens.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 388
What is this man? A mass of diseases that reach out into the world through the spirit; there they want to get their prey.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1490
Penitents of the spirit have I seen appearing; they grew out of the poets.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1592
Is he a poet? Or a genuine one? An emancipator? Or a subjugator? A good one? Or an evil one?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1280
But that ye may understand my gospel of good and evil, for that purpose will I tell you my gospel of life, and of the nature of all living things.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3166
Hath there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints of the wilderness? AROUND THEM was not only the devil loose—but also the swine.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 895
Violently will my breast then heave; violently will it blow its storm over the mountains: thus cometh its assuagement.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3411
All joy wanteth the eternity of all things, it wanteth honey, it wanteth lees, it wanteth drunken midnight, it wanteth graves, it wanteth grave-tears’ consolation, it wanteth gilded evening-red—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2892
Hath an immodest one ever been answered more courteously?—Thou, however, O Zarathustra, passedst him by, and saidst: ‘Nay! Nay! Three times Nay!’
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2290
A great potentate might arise, an artful prodigy, who with approval and disapproval could strain and constrain all the past, until it became for him a bridge, a harbinger, a herald, and a cock-crowing.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2658
—On an eternal ground, on hard primary rock, on this highest, hardest, primary mountain-ridge, unto which all winds come, as unto the storm-parting, asking Where? and Whence? and Whither?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 147
I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1183
He who ever bestoweth is in danger of losing his shame; to him who ever dispenseth, the hand and heart become callous by very dispensing.