Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1817

Yonder where the storms rush down into the sea, and the snout of the mountain drinketh water, shall each on a time have his day and night watches, for HIS testing and recognition.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1136

Your people would ye justify in their reverence: that called ye “Will to Truth,” ye famous wise ones!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 448

Noble thou feelest thyself still, and noble others also feel thee still, though they bear thee a grudge and cast evil looks. Know this, that to everybody a noble one standeth in the way.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3523

He is shamefast and bashful with those who surround him and wishes not to be discovered by them, just as one instinctively avoids all lavish display of comfort or wealth in the presence of a poor friend.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1180

Withdrawing my hand when another hand already stretcheth out to it; hesitating like the cascade, which hesitateth even in its leap:—thus do I hunger for wickedness!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 464

They meet an invalid, or an old man, or a corpse—and immediately they say: “Life is refuted!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1665

Ah, I became tired of those highest and best ones: from their “height” did I long to be up, out, and away to the Superman!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3217

The day dieth out, unto all things cometh now the evening, also unto the best things; hear now, and see, ye higher men, what devil—man or woman—this spirit of evening-melancholy is!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2986

Thou hast lost thy goal. Alas, how wilt thou forego and forget that loss? Thereby—hast thou also lost thy way!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 925

But so willeth it my creating Will, my fate. Or, to tell you it more candidly: just such a fate—willeth my Will.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1126

Alas! There hath the tarantula bit me myself, mine old enemy! Divinely steadfast and beautiful, it hath bit me on the finger!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 97

“And what doeth the saint in the forest?” asked Zarathustra.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3351

“My friends, all of you,” said the ugliest man, “what think ye? For the sake of this day—_I_ am for the first time content to have lived mine entire life.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1370

Alas, how ye stand there before me, ye unfruitful ones; how lean your ribs! And many of you surely have had knowledge thereof.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2423

And now only cometh unto him the great terror, the great outlook, the great sickness, the great nausea, the great sea-sickness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2772

Ha! Ha! And torturest me, fool that thou art, Dead-torturest quite my pride? Give LOVE to me—who warm’th me still? Who lov’th me still?— Give ardent fingers, Give heartening charcoal-warmers, Give me, the lonesomest, The ice (ah! seven-fold frozen ice, For very enemies, For foes, doth make one thirst), Give, yield to me, Cruellest foe, —THYSELF!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2677

In vain would any one come to this height who sought HIM here: caves would he find, indeed, and back-caves, hiding-places for hidden ones; but not lucky mines, nor treasure-chambers, nor new gold-veins of happiness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1089

Lo, this is the tarantula’s den! Wouldst thou see the tarantula itself? Here hangeth its web: touch this, so that it may tremble.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1005

Characters of blood did they write on the way they went, and their folly taught that truth is proved by blood.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1979

Those dingy, fire-warmed, used-up, green-tinted, ill-natured souls—how COULD their envy endure my happiness!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 417

I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1257

And when I offered my holiest as a sacrifice, immediately did your “piety” put its fatter gifts beside it: so that my holiest suffocated in the fumes of your fat.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2649

Therefore do I here wait, crafty and scornful upon high mountains, no impatient one, no patient one; rather one who hath even unlearnt patience,—because he no longer “suffereth.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3454

In offering this little commentary to the Nietzsche student, I should like it to be understood that I make no claim as to its infallibility or indispensability. It represents but an attempt on my part—a very feeble one perhaps—to give the reader what little help I can in surmounting difficulties which a long study of Nietzsche’s life and works has enabled me, partially I hope, to overcome.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2796

“It honoureth thee,” said Zarathustra gloomily, looking down with sidelong glance, “it honoureth thee that thou soughtest for greatness, but it betrayeth thee also. Thou art not great.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 505

Somewhere there are still peoples and herds, but not with us, my brethren: here there are states.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1125

Thus, steadfast and beautiful, let us also be enemies, my friends! Divinely will we strive AGAINST one another!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2439

And thy last greatness, my Will, spare it for thy last—that thou mayest be inexorable IN thy victory! Ah, who hath not succumbed to his victory!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1264

Yea, something invulnerable, unburiable is with me, something that would rend rocks asunder: it is called MY WILL. Silently doth it proceed, and unchanged throughout the years.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2826

Thus spake the hoary man, and gazed with keen eyes at him who stood before him. Zarathustra however seized the hand of the old pope and regarded it a long while with admiration.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 491

Ye say it is the good cause which halloweth even war? I say unto you: it is the good war which halloweth every cause.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1705

So must thou go again into solitude: for thou shalt yet become mellow.”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1556

Alpa! cried I, who carrieth his ashes unto the mountain? Alpa! Alpa! who carrieth his ashes unto the mountain?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1080

A summer on the loftiest height, with cold fountains and blissful stillness: oh, come, my friends, that the stillness may become more blissful!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1413

But I came NIGH unto you: then came to me the day,—and now cometh it to you,—at an end is the moon’s love affair!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 610

Sawest thou ever thy friend asleep? Wert thou not dismayed at thy friend looking so? O my friend, man is something that hath to be surpassed.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1857

The passing clouds I detest—those stealthy cats of prey: they take from thee and me what is common to us—the vast unbounded Yea- and Amen-saying.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3332

Thou thyself seemest to me awakened: what didst thou do? why didst THOU turn round? Why didst THOU get converted? Speak, thou nondescript!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3176

Set around you small, good, perfect things, ye higher men. Their golden maturity healeth the heart. The perfect teacheth one to hope.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3159

Walk in the footsteps in which your fathers’ virtue hath already walked! How would ye rise high, if your fathers’ will should not rise with you?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 836

Verily, a new good and evil is it! Verily, a new deep murmuring, and the voice of a new fountain!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2093

We do not question each other, we do not complain to each other; we go together openly through open doors.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1185

Whence have gone the tears of mine eye, and the down of my heart? Oh, the lonesomeness of all bestowers! Oh, the silence of all shining ones!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3433

All this went on for a long time, or a short time: for properly speaking, there is NO time on earth for such things—. Meanwhile, however, the higher men had awakened in Zarathustra’s cave, and marshalled themselves for a procession to go to meet Zarathustra, and give him their morning greeting: for they had found when they awakened that he no longer tarried with them. When, however, they reached the door of the cave and the noise of their steps had preceded them, the lion started violently; it turned away all at once from Zarathustra, and roaring wildly, sprang towards the cave. The higher men, however, when they heard the lion roaring, cried all aloud as with one voice, fled back and vanished in an instant.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2477

When the great man crieth—: immediately runneth the little man thither, and his tongue hangeth out of his mouth for very lusting. He, however, calleth it his “pity.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2211

And unwillingly only did I ask my way—that was always counter to my taste! Rather did I question and test the ways themselves.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1555

Thrice did there peal peals at the gate like thunders, thrice did the vaults resound and howl again: then did I go to the gate.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3603

He would probably have argued that we only see the successful cases. Being a great man himself, he was well aware of the dangers threatening greatness in our age.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2646

Until, biting at my sharp hidden hooks, they have to come up unto MY height, the motleyest abyss-groundlings, to the wickedest of all fishers of men.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2975

Too much hath become clear unto me: now it doth not concern me any more. Nothing liveth any longer that I love,—how should I still love myself?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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