Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1544
And this is the discourse that Zarathustra spake when he awoke; his voice, however, came unto his disciples as from afar:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1121
And just behold, my friends! Here where the tarantula’s den is, riseth aloft an ancient temple’s ruins—just behold it with enlightened eyes!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3189
This crown of the laughter, this rose-garland crown: I myself have put on this crown, I myself have consecrated my laughter. No one else have I found to-day potent enough for this.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1426
Too long did my soul sit hungry at their table: not like them have I got the knack of investigating, as the knack of nut-cracking.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 341
No longer can your Self do that which it desireth most:—create beyond itself. That is what it desireth most; that is all its fervour.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3675
He tells them not to forget that night and the ass-festival, for “such things only the convalescent devise! And should ye celebrate it again,” he concludes, “do it from love to yourselves, do it also from love to me! And in remembrance of ME!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1402
But now doth your emasculated ogling profess to be “contemplation!” And that which can be examined with cowardly eyes is to be christened “beautiful!” Oh, ye violators of noble names!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3355
The old soothsayer, however, danced with delight; and though he was then, as some narrators suppose, full of sweet wine, he was certainly still fuller of sweet life, and had renounced all weariness. There are even those who narrate that the ass then danced: for not in vain had the ugliest man previously given it wine to drink.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2388
Only the birds are still beyond him. And if man should yet learn to fly, alas! TO WHAT HEIGHT—would his rapacity fly!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 263
Ten truths must thou find during the day; otherwise wilt thou seek truth during the night, and thy soul will have been hungry.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 767
Yea, I would that the earth shook with convulsions when a saint and a goose mate with one another.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3651
Nietzsche admits, here, that at one time he had thought of appealing to the people, to the crowd in the market-place, but that he had ultimately to abandon the task. He bids higher men depart from the market-place.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2919
To that end, however, I would fain learn of these kine. For I tell thee that I have already talked half a morning unto them, and just now were they about to give me their answer. Why dost thou disturb them?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2447
Up, abysmal thought out of my depth! I am thy cock and morning dawn, thou overslept reptile: Up! Up! My voice shall soon crow thee awake!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 29
“The sun of knowledge stands once more at midday; and the serpent of eternity lies coiled in its light—: It is YOUR time, ye midday brethren.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2110
And, fool that I was, when they misjudged me, I indulged them on that account more than myself, being habitually hard on myself, and often even taking revenge on myself for the indulgence.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2759
Where mine honesty ceaseth, there am I blind, and want also to be blind. Where I want to know, however, there want I also to be honest—namely, severe, rigorous, restricted, cruel and inexorable.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3181
And he himself just did not love sufficiently; otherwise would he have raged less because people did not love him. All great love doth not SEEK love:—it seeketh more.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 558
Thou art not stone; but already hast thou become hollow by the numerous drops. Thou wilt yet break and burst by the numerous drops.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1026
Thus is the light of your virtue still on its way, even when its work is done. Be it forgotten and dead, still its ray of light liveth and travelleth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2051
I hear it and smell it: it hath come—their hour for hunt and procession, not indeed for a wild hunt, but for a tame, lame, snuffling, soft-treaders’, soft-prayers’ hunt,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2845
Well! At all events, one way or other—he is gone! He was counter to the taste of mine ears and eyes; worse than that I should not like to say against him.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1112
To those would they thereby do injury who have power at present: for with those the preaching of death is still most at home.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3410
—Ye eternal ones, ye love it eternally and for all time: and also unto woe do ye say: Hence! Go! but come back! FOR JOYS ALL WANT—ETERNITY!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2707
Immediately thereupon, Zarathustra, who had opened ears and eyes to this talk, rose from his hiding-place, advanced towards the kings, and thus began:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2539
—Than in gushing tears pour forth all thy grief concerning thy fulness, and concerning the craving of the vine for the vintager and vintage-knife!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1965
—The winter-sky, the silent winter-sky, which often stifleth even its sun!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 494
They call you heartless: but your heart is true, and I love the bashfulness of your good-will. Ye are ashamed of your flow, and others are ashamed of their ebb.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1538
‘Alas! where is there still a sea in which one could be drowned?’ so soundeth our plaint—across shallow swamps.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2810
Thus spake Zarathustra, comforted in his heart, and went laughing on his way.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2576
We are both of us genuine ne’er-do-wells and ne’er-do-ills. Beyond good and evil found we our island and our green meadow—we two alone! Therefore must we be friendly to each other!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 653
Ye cannot endure it with yourselves, and do not love yourselves sufficiently: so ye seek to mislead your neighbour into love, and would fain gild yourselves with his error.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1263
How did I ever bear it? How did I survive and surmount such wounds? How did my soul rise again out of those sepulchres?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1376
Verily, it shall not on that account become heavier to me! And not from you, ye present-day men, shall my great weariness arise.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1570
Now will children’s laughter ever from coffins flow; now will a strong wind ever come victoriously unto all mortal weariness: of this thou art thyself the pledge and the prophet!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2635
Then went his animals again thoughtfully around him, and placed themselves once more in front of him. “O Zarathustra,” said they, “it is consequently FOR THAT REASON that thou thyself always becometh yellower and darker, although thy hair looketh white and flaxen? Lo, thou sittest in thy pitch!”—“What do ye say, mine animals?” said Zarathustra, laughing; “verily I reviled when I spake of pitch. As it happeneth with me, so is it with all fruits that turn ripe.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 726
Obey, must the woman, and find a depth for her surface. Surface, is woman’s soul, a mobile, stormy film on shallow water.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 707
“Much hath Zarathustra spoken also to us women, but never spake he unto us concerning woman.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 320
Verily, not in backworlds and redeeming blood-drops: but in the body do they also believe most; and their own body is for them the thing-in-itself.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1594
And it is all my poetisation and aspiration to compose and collect into unity what is fragment and riddle and fearful chance.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1852
Together did we learn everything; together did we learn to ascend beyond ourselves to ourselves, and to smile uncloudedly:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2996
—How long and weary it becometh, my strange soul! Hath a seventh-day evening come to it precisely at noontide? Hath it already wandered too long, blissfully, among good and ripe things?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3124
Ye higher men, think ye that I am here to put right what ye have put wrong?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2207
This however is my teaching: he who wisheth one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing and dancing:—one doth not fly into flying!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 361
And nothing evil groweth in thee any longer, unless it be the evil that groweth out of the conflict of thy virtues.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1579
Zarathustra, however, answered thus unto him who so spake: When one taketh his hump from the hunchback, then doth one take from him his spirit—so do the people teach. And when one giveth the blind man eyes, then doth he see too many bad things on the earth: so that he curseth him who healed him. He, however, who maketh the lame man run, inflicteth upon him the greatest injury; for hardly can he run, when his vices run away with him—so do the people teach concerning cripples. And why should not Zarathustra also learn from the people, when the people learn from Zarathustra?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1431
Should one lay hold of them, then do they raise a dust like flour-sacks, and involuntarily: but who would divine that their dust came from corn, and from the yellow delight of the summer fields?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 753
Art thou the victorious one, the self-conqueror, the ruler of thy passions, the master of thy virtues? Thus do I ask thee.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2918
“What do I here seek?” answered he: “the same that thou seekest, thou mischief-maker; that is to say, happiness upon earth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1099
Ye preachers of equality, the tyrant-frenzy of impotence crieth thus in you for “equality”: your most secret tyrant-longings disguise themselves thus in virtue-words!