Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2977

Have _I_—still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1732

Ah, this sombre, sad sea, below me! Ah, this sombre nocturnal vexation! Ah, fate and sea! To you must I now GO DOWN!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 38

The first part of “Zarathustra” was written in about ten days—that is to say, from the beginning to about the middle of February 1883. “The last lines were written precisely in the hallowed hour when Richard Wagner gave up the ghost in Venice.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3055

But he meaneth ‘blunt language and bluntly’—well! That is not the worst taste in these days!”)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2181

Not, to be sure, with the love of the sick and infected, for with them stinketh even self-love!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1292

And as the lesser surrendereth himself to the greater that he may have delight and power over the least of all, so doth even the greatest surrender himself, and staketh—life, for the sake of power.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1163

Ye seem to me lukewarm ones: but coldly floweth all deep knowledge. Ice-cold are the innermost wells of the spirit: a refreshment to hot hands and handlers.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1228

An unknown presence is about me, and gazeth thoughtfully. What! Thou livest still, Zarathustra?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 366

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 90

Zarathustra answered: “What spake I of love! I am bringing gifts unto men.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 230

Three metamorphoses of the spirit do I designate to you: how the spirit becometh a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1300

And even thou, discerning one, art only a path and footstep of my will: verily, my Will to Power walketh even on the feet of thy Will to Truth!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1409

A God’s mask have ye hung in front of you, ye “pure ones”: into a God’s mask hath your execrable coiling snake crawled.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1935

—By your many small virtues, by your many small omissions, and by your many small submissions!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2553

My heels reared aloft, my toes they hearkened,—thee they would know: hath not the dancer his ear—in his toe!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1450

Should I not have to be a cask of memory, if I also wanted to have my reasons with me?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2926

“Speak not of me, thou strange one; thou amiable one!” said Zarathustra, and restrained his affection, “speak to me firstly of thyself! Art thou not the voluntary beggar who once cast away great riches,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3341

But now leave, I pray you, THIS nursery, mine own cave, where to-day all childishness is carried on. Cool down, here outside, your hot child-wantonness and heart-tumult!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3066

Not for you do I wait here in these mountains; not with you may I descend for the last time. Ye have come unto me only as a presage that higher ones are on the way to me,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2198

All-satisfiedness, which knoweth how to taste everything,—that is not the best taste! I honour the refractory, fastidious tongues and stomachs, which have learned to say “I” and “Yea” and “Nay.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3517

Zarathustra here addresses cripples. He tells them of other cripples—the GREAT MEN in this world who have one organ or faculty inordinately developed at the cost of their other faculties. This is doubtless a reference to a fact which is too often noticeable in the case of so many of the world’s giants in art, science, or religion.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3578

The first ten verses, here, are reminiscent of “War and Warriors” and of “The Flies in the Market-place.” Verses 11 and 12, however, are particularly important. There is a strong argument in favour of the sharp differentiation of castes and of races (and even of sexes; see Note on Chapter XVIII.) running all through Nietzsche’s writings. But sharp differentiation also implies antagonism in some form or other—hence Nietzsche’s fears for modern men.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1481

Certainly, one findeth pearls in them: thereby they are the more like hard molluscs. And instead of a soul, I have often found in them salt slime.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 384

But his weak reason understood not this madness, and it persuaded him. “What matter about blood!” it said; “wishest thou not, at least, to make booty thereby? Or take revenge?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2281

Once did one BELIEVE in soothsayers and astrologers; and THEREFORE did one believe, “Everything is fate: thou shalt, for thou must!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2777

—“Leave off,” said the old man, and sprang up from the ground, “strike me no more, O Zarathustra! I did it only for amusement!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 672

Art thou a new strength and a new authority? A first motion? A self-rolling wheel? Canst thou also compel stars to revolve around thee?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1967

Of all good things the origin is a thousandfold,—all good roguish things spring into existence for joy: how could they always do so—for once only!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 914

Yea, I have drawn the conclusion; now, however, doth it draw me.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1925

And when I call out: “Curse all the cowardly devils in you, that would fain whimper and fold the hands and adore”—then do they shout: “Zarathustra is godless.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 80

Bless the cup that is about to overflow, that the water may flow golden out of it, and carry everywhere the reflection of thy bliss!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3106

The most careful ask to-day: “How is man to be maintained?” Zarathustra however asketh, as the first and only one: “How is man to be SURPASSED?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 194

It was thy good fortune to be laughed at: and verily thou spakest like a buffoon. It was thy good fortune to associate with the dead dog; by so humiliating thyself thou hast saved thy life to-day. Depart, however, from this town,—or to-morrow I shall jump over thee, a living man over a dead one.” And when he had said this, the buffoon vanished; Zarathustra, however, went on through the dark streets.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1320

As a tiger doth he ever stand, on the point of springing; but I do not like those strained souls; ungracious is my taste towards all those self-engrossed ones.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1062

And many a one who hath gone into the wilderness and suffered thirst with beasts of prey, disliked only to sit at the cistern with filthy camel-drivers.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1285

This, however, is the third thing which I heard—namely, that commanding is more difficult than obeying. And not only because the commander beareth the burden of all obeyers, and because this burden readily crusheth him:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3087

“Just hear this glutton Zarathustra!” said he jokingly: “doth one go into caves and high mountains to make such repasts?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1588

The present and the bygone upon earth—ah! my friends—that is MY most unbearable trouble; and I should not know how to live, if I were not a seer of what is to come.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2470

Everything breaketh, everything is integrated anew; eternally buildeth itself the same house of existence. All things separate, all things again greet one another; eternally true to itself remaineth the ring of existence.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2676

But although thou shouldst dance before me, and leap all thy side-leaps, no one may say unto me: ‘Behold, here danceth the last joyous man!’

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1406

Yet still can I say therewith the truth—to dissemblers! Yea, my fish-bones, shells, and prickly leaves shall—tickle the noses of dissemblers!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1472

I am of to-day and heretofore, said he thereupon; but something is in me that is of the morrow, and the day following, and the hereafter.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2958

“What!” said he, “have not the most ludicrous things always happened to us old anchorites and saints?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 196

Zarathustra made no answer thereto, but went on his way. When he had gone on for two hours, past forests and swamps, he had heard too much of the hungry howling of the wolves, and he himself became a-hungry. So he halted at a lonely house in which a light was burning.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2868

—When however Zarathustra had heard these words,—what think ye then took place in his soul? PITY OVERCAME HIM; and he sank down all at once, like an oak that hath long withstood many tree-fellers,—heavily, suddenly, to the terror even of those who meant to fell it. But immediately he got up again from the ground, and his countenance became stern.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2747

Thus spake the trodden one, and Zarathustra rejoiced at his words and their refined reverential style. “Who art thou?” asked he, and gave him his hand, “there is much to clear up and elucidate between us, but already methinketh pure clear day is dawning.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 152

Must one first batter their ears, that they may learn to hear with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettledrums and penitential preachers? Or do they only believe the stammerer?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 627

Whatever maketh them rule and conquer and shine, to the dismay and envy of their neighbours, they regard as the high and foremost thing, the test and the meaning of all else.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1291

That to the stronger the weaker shall serve—thereto persuadeth he his will who would be master over a still weaker one. That delight alone he is unwilling to forego.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2563

Thou bat! Thou owl! Thou wouldst play me foul? Where are we? From the dogs hast thou learned thus to bark and howl.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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