Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 478
If ye believed more in life, then would ye devote yourselves less to the momentary. But for waiting, ye have not enough of capacity in you—nor even for idling!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1346
Then will thy soul thrill with divine desires; and there will be adoration even in thy vanity!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3302
He speaketh not: except that he ever saith Yea to the world which he created: thus doth he extol his world. It is his artfulness that speaketh not: thus is he rarely found wrong.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1341
And from no one do I want beauty so much as from thee, thou powerful one: let thy goodness be thy last self-conquest.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1170
Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me; it longeth to find expression. A craving for love is within me, which speaketh itself the language of love.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1869
“Of Hazard”—that is the oldest nobility in the world; that gave I back to all things; I emancipated them from bondage under purpose.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2131
And that I may do the like by day, and imitate and copy its best, now will I put the three worst things on the scales, and weigh them humanly well.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 782
The consummating death I show unto you, which becometh a stimulus and promise to the living.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2832
—“Thou servedst him to the last?” asked Zarathustra thoughtfully, after a deep silence, “thou knowest HOW he died? Is it true what they say, that sympathy choked him;
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 932
Ah, ye men, within the stone slumbereth an image for me, the image of my visions! Ah, that it should slumber in the hardest, ugliest stone!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 529
Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.—and ofttimes also the throne on filth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2667
Eat and drink also with me to-day, and forgive it that a cheerful old man sitteth with thee at table!”—“A cheerful old man?” answered the soothsayer, shaking his head, “but whoever thou art, or wouldst be, O Zarathustra, thou hast been here aloft the longest time,—in a little while thy bark shall no longer rest on dry land!”—“Do I then rest on dry land?”—asked Zarathustra, laughing.—“The waves around thy mountain,” answered the soothsayer, “rise and rise, the waves of great distress and affliction: they will soon raise thy bark also and carry thee away.”—Thereupon was Zarathustra silent and wondered.—“Dost thou still hear nothing?” continued the soothsayer: “doth it not rush and roar out of the depth?”—Zarathustra was silent once more and listened: then heard he a long, long cry, which the abysses threw to one another and passed on; for none of them wished to retain it: so evil did it sound.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1707
—Now have ye heard all, and why I have to return into my solitude. Nothing have I kept hidden from you, my friends.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1981
They hear only the whistling of my winter-storms: and know NOT that I also travel over warm seas, like longing, heavy, hot south-winds.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1160
And never yet could ye cast your spirit into a pit of snow: ye are not hot enough for that! Thus are ye unaware, also, of the delight of its coldness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1008
Sultry heart and cold head; where these meet, there ariseth the blusterer, the “Saviour.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 153
They have something whereof they are proud. What do they call it, that which maketh them proud? Culture, they call it; it distinguisheth them from the goatherds.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2660
And whatever belongeth unto ME in all seas, my in-and-for-me in all things—fish THAT out for me, bring THAT up to me: for that do I wait, the wickedest of all fish-catchers.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 364
My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1778
“Observe,” continued I, “This Moment! From the gateway, This Moment, there runneth a long eternal lane BACKWARDS: behind us lieth an eternity.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 283
Happy even is he who liveth near this wise man! Such sleep is contagious—even through a thick wall it is contagious.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3672
Nietzsche’s obvious moral, however, is that great scientists and thinkers, once they have reached the wall encircling scepticism and have thereby learned to recover their confidence in the act of believing, as such, usually manifest the change in their outlook by falling victims to the narrowest and most superstitious of creeds. So much for the introduction of the ass as an object of worship.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 749
Like a deep well is an anchorite. Easy is it to throw in a stone: if it should sink to the bottom, however, tell me, who will bring it out again?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 145
I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 572
In thy presence they feel themselves small, and their baseness gleameth and gloweth against thee in invisible vengeance.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2581
Thou lovest me not nearly so much as thou sayest; I know thou thinkest of soon leaving me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 685
Thou forcest many to think differently about thee; that, charge they heavily to thine account. Thou camest nigh unto them, and yet wentest past: for that they never forgive thee.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1910
And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3319
—“And thou,” said Zarathustra, “thou bad old magician, what didst thou do! Who ought to believe any longer in thee in this free age, when THOU believest in such divine donkeyism?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2763
Well then! We part here! But I would fain find thee again. Up thither is the way to my cave: to-night shalt thou there be my welcome guest!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3056
“Ye may, verily, all of you be higher men,” continued Zarathustra; “but for me—ye are neither high enough, nor strong enough.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 802
As yet had he known only tears, and the melancholy of the Hebrews, together with the hatred of the good and just—the Hebrew Jesus: then was he seized with the longing for death.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3421
In the morning, however, after this night, Zarathustra jumped up from his couch, and, having girded his loins, he came out of his cave glowing and strong, like a morning sun coming out of gloomy mountains.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 74
But we awaited thee every morning, took from thee thine overflow and blessed thee for it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 442
As yet thou art not free; thou still SEEKEST freedom. Too unslept hath thy seeking made thee, and too wakeful.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2994
No eye doth it close to me, it leaveth my soul awake. Light is it, verily, feather-light.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2523
O my soul, I taught thee the contempt which doth not come like worm-eating, the great, the loving contempt, which loveth most where it contemneth most.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1581
I see and have seen worse things, and divers things so hideous, that I should neither like to speak of all matters, nor even keep silent about some of them: namely, men who lack everything, except that they have too much of one thing—men who are nothing more than a big eye, or a big mouth, or a big belly, or something else big,—reversed cripples, I call such men.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2939
Populace above, populace below! What are ‘poor’ and ‘rich’ at present! That distinction did I unlearn,—then did I flee away further and ever further, until I came to those kine.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2481
And I myself—do I thereby want to be man’s accuser? Ah, mine animals, this only have I learned hitherto, that for man his baddest is necessary for his best,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2262
Our best is still young: this exciteth old palates. Our flesh is tender, our skin is only lambs’ skin:—how could we not excite old idol-priests!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3530
That there is much to be said for Nietzsche’s hypothesis of the Eternal Recurrence of all things great and small, nobody who has read the literature on the subject will doubt for an instant; but it remains a very daring conjecture notwithstanding and even in its ultimate effect, as a dogma, on the minds of men, I venture to doubt whether Nietzsche ever properly estimated its worth (see Note on Chapter LVII.).
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3148
Ye creating ones, ye higher men! One is only pregnant with one’s own child.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 18
“In order to understand this type, we must first be quite clear in regard to the leading physiological condition on which it depends: this condition is what I call GREAT HEALTHINESS. I know not how to express my meaning more plainly or more personally than I have done already in one of the last chapters (Aphorism 382) of the fifth book of the ‘Gaya Scienza’.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 502
Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me—and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 848
Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1356
Written all over with the characters of the past, and these characters also pencilled over with new characters—thus have ye concealed yourselves well from all decipherers!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3334
Whether HE yet liveth, or again liveth, or is thoroughly dead—which of us both knoweth that best? I ask thee.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3587
In verses 15 and 16, we have Nietzsche declaring himself an evolutionist in the broadest sense—that is to say, that he believes in the Development Hypothesis as the description of the process by which species have originated. Now, to understand his position correctly we must show his relationship to the two greatest of modern evolutionists—Darwin and Spencer. As a philosopher, however, Nietzsche does not stand or fall by his objections to the Darwinian or Spencerian cosmogony.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2114
To conceal myself and my riches—THAT did I learn down there: for every one did I still find poor in spirit. It was the lie of my pity, that I knew in every one,