Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1368

Unfruitful are ye: THEREFORE do ye lack belief. But he who had to create, had always his presaging dreams and astral premonitions—and believed in believing!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 650

Do I advise you to neighbour-love? Rather do I advise you to neighbour-flight and to furthest love!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1420

When I lay asleep, then did a sheep eat at the ivy-wreath on my head,—it ate, and said thereby: “Zarathustra is no longer a scholar.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3547

Later in the book we shall see how his profound compassion leads him into temptation, and how frantically he struggles against it. In verses 31 and 32, he tells us to what extent he had to modify himself in order to be endured by his fellows whom he loved (see also verse 12 in “Manly Prudence”).

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 10

All-too-similar are they still to each other. Verily even the greatest found I—all-too-human!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1487

Spectators, seeketh the spirit of the poet—should they even be buffaloes!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3263

Many lands have I seen, my nose hath learned to test and estimate many kinds of air: but with thee do my nostrils taste their greatest delight!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2472

—O ye wags and barrel-organs! answered Zarathustra, and smiled once more, how well do ye know what had to be fulfilled in seven days:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1805

Alone am I again, and like to be so, alone with the pure heaven, and the open sea; and again is the afternoon around me.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3414

—So rich is joy that it thirsteth for woe, for hell, for hate, for shame, for the lame, for the WORLD,—for this world, Oh, ye know it indeed!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2018

Why wentest thou not into the forest? Or why didst thou not till the ground? Is the sea not full of green islands?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1661

And verily, ye good and just! In you there is much to be laughed at, and especially your fear of what hath hitherto been called “the devil!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1614

“Can there be deliverance when there is eternal justice? Alas, unrollable is the stone, ‘It was’: eternal must also be all penalties!” Thus did madness preach.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3527

What were once but expedients devised for the discipline of a certain portion of humanity, had now passed into man’s blood and had become instincts.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3546

The broad altruism of the law-giver, thinking over vast eras of time, was continually being pitted by Nietzsche, in himself, against that transient and meaner sympathy for the neighbour which he more perhaps than any of his contemporaries had suffered from, but which he was certain involved enormous dangers not only for himself but also to the next and subsequent generations (see Note B., where “pity” is mentioned among the degenerate virtues).

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 796

To many men life is a failure; a poison-worm gnaweth at their heart. Then let them see to it that their dying is all the more a success.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 220

I make for my goal, I follow my course; over the loitering and tardy will I leap. Thus let my on-going be their down-going!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1454

Believest thou that he there spake the truth? Why dost thou believe it?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1428

I am too hot and scorched with mine own thought: often is it ready to take away my breath. Then have I to go into the open air, and away from all dusty rooms.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1244

Worse evil did ye do unto me than all manslaughter; the irretrievable did ye take from me:—thus do I speak unto you, mine enemies!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1142

Ah! for me to learn to believe in your “conscientiousness,” ye would first have to break your venerating will.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3075

For at this point the soothsayer interrupted the greeting of Zarathustra and his guests: he pressed forward as one who had no time to lose, seized Zarathustra’s hand and exclaimed: “But Zarathustra!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 721

Let man fear woman when she loveth: then maketh she every sacrifice, and everything else she regardeth as worthless.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3242

For fear—that is man’s original and fundamental feeling; through fear everything is explained, original sin and original virtue. Through fear there grew also MY virtue, that is to say: Science.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3156

Ye creating ones, in you there is much uncleanliness. That is because ye have had to be mothers.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1094

Therefore do I tear at your web, that your rage may lure you out of your den of lies, and that your revenge may leap forth from behind your word “justice.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 845

Still fight we step by step with the giant Chance, and over all mankind hath hitherto ruled nonsense, the lack-of-sense.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1569

New stars hast thou made us see, and new nocturnal glories: verily, laughter itself hast thou spread out over us like a many-hued canopy.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2507

And if thou wouldst now die, O Zarathustra, behold, we know also how thou wouldst then speak to thyself:—but thine animals beseech thee not to die yet!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1523

The gold, however, and the laughter—these doth he take out of the heart of the earth: for, that thou mayst know it,—THE HEART OF THE EARTH IS OF GOLD.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2830

“He who most loved and possessed him hath now also lost him most—:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2498

That I have to sing once more—THAT consolation did I devise for myself, and THIS convalescence: would ye also make another lyre-lay thereof?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1410

Verily ye deceive, ye “contemplative ones!” Even Zarathustra was once the dupe of your godlike exterior; he did not divine the serpent’s coil with which it was stuffed.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2947

—“Well!” said Zarathustra, “thou shouldst also see MINE animals, mine eagle and my serpent,—their like do not at present exist on earth.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2296

—Verily, not to a nobility which ye could purchase like traders with traders’ gold; for little worth is all that hath its price.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2073

That took place when the unGodliest utterance came from a God himself—the utterance: “There is but one God! Thou shalt have no other Gods before me!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1717

It returneth only, it cometh home to me at last—mine own Self, and such of it as hath been long abroad, and scattered among things and accidents.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2992

“Hush! Hush! Hath not the world now become perfect? What hath happened unto me?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1036

Ah! how ineptly cometh the word “virtue” out of their mouth! And when they say: “I am just,” it always soundeth like: “I am just—revenged!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3398

Thou grape-vine! Why dost thou praise me? Have I not cut thee! I am cruel, thou bleedest—: what meaneth thy praise of my drunken cruelty?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2893

Thou warnedst against his error; thou warnedst—the first to do so—against pity:—not every one, not none, but thyself and thy type.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 633

Verily, men have given unto themselves all their good and bad. Verily, they took it not, they found it not, it came not unto them as a voice from heaven.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1116

On a thousand bridges and piers shall they throng to the future, and always shall there be more war and inequality among them: thus doth my great love make me speak!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1771

Then happened that which made me lighter: for the dwarf sprang from my shoulder, the prying sprite! And it squatted on a stone in front of me. There was however a gateway just where we halted.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 663

I teach you the friend in whom the world standeth complete, a capsule of the good,—the creating friend, who hath always a complete world to bestow.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1790

Where was now the dwarf? And the gateway? And the spider? And all the whispering? Had I dreamt? Had I awakened? ‘Twixt rugged rocks did I suddenly stand alone, dreary in the dreariest moonlight.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1497

The earth, said he, hath a skin; and this skin hath diseases. One of these diseases, for example, is called “man.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 197

“Hunger attacketh me,” said Zarathustra, “like a robber. Among forests and swamps my hunger attacketh me, and late in the night.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 460

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2171

My hand—is a fool’s hand: woe unto all tables and walls, and whatever hath room for fool’s sketching, fool’s scrawling!