Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2795
O Zarathustra, everything is a lie in me; but that I collapse—this my collapsing is GENUINE!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 892
And when I want to mount my wildest horse, then doth my spear always help me up best: it is my foot’s ever ready servant:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1689
And I answered: “As yet hath my word not removed mountains, and what I have spoken hath not reached man. I went, indeed, unto men, but not yet have I attained unto them.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 7
“WITH THE HELP OF FAVOURABLE MEASURES GREAT INDIVIDUALS MIGHT BE REARED WHO WOULD BE BOTH DIFFERENT FROM AND HIGHER THAN THOSE WHO HERETOFORE HAVE OWED THEIR EXISTENCE TO MERE CHANCE. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 854
I now go alone, my disciples! Ye also now go away, and alone! So will I have it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1475
Some sensation of voluptuousness and some sensation of tedium: these have as yet been their best contemplation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1683
And I wept and trembled like a child, and said: “Ah, I would indeed, but how can I do it! Exempt me only from this! It is beyond my power!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1367
All periods prate against one another in your spirits; and the dreams and pratings of all periods were even realer than your awakeness!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2803
“Well! Up thither leadeth the way, there is the cave of Zarathustra. In it mayest thou seek him whom thou wouldst fain find.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3006
The least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a whisk, an eye-glance—LITTLE maketh up the BEST happiness. Hush!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 50
He often used to speak of the ecstatic mood in which he wrote “Zarathustra”; how in his walks over hill and dale the ideas would crowd into his mind, and how he would note them down hastily in a note-book from which he would transcribe them on his return, sometimes working till midnight. He says in a letter to me: “You can have no idea of the vehemence of such composition,” and in “Ecce Homo” (autumn 1888) he describes as follows with passionate enthusiasm the incomparable mood in which he created Zarathustra:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2988
Thither leadeth the way to my cave. And now will I run quickly away from thee again. Already lieth as it were a shadow upon me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1284
And this heard I secondly: Whatever cannot obey itself, is commanded. Such is the nature of living things.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 793
One must discontinue being feasted upon when one tasteth best: that is known by those who want to be long loved.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 245
The values of a thousand years glitter on those scales, and thus speaketh the mightiest of all dragons: “All the values of things—glitter on me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 581
Would that ye were perfect—at least as animals! But to animals belongeth innocence.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1394
To be happy in gazing: with dead will, free from the grip and greed of selfishness—cold and ashy-grey all over, but with intoxicated moon-eyes!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2885
—Whether it be the pity of a God, or whether it be human pity, it is offensive to modesty. And unwillingness to help may be nobler than the virtue that rusheth to do so.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1429
But they sit cool in the cool shade: they want in everything to be merely spectators, and they avoid sitting where the sun burneth on the steps.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 275
Thus passeth the day unto the virtuous. When night cometh, then take I good care not to summon sleep. It disliketh to be summoned—sleep, the lord of the virtues!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1262
Unspoken and unrealised hath my highest hope remained! And there have perished for me all the visions and consolations of my youth!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1761
Then was the dwarf silent; and it lasted long. The silence, however, oppressed me; and to be thus in pairs, one is verily lonesomer than when alone!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2396
Thus do I counsel all honest ones; and what would be my love to the Superman, and to all that is to come, if I should counsel and speak otherwise!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2670
And hardly had those words been uttered when there sounded the cry once more, and longer and more alarming than before—also much nearer. “Hearest thou? Hearest thou, O Zarathustra?” called out the soothsayer, “the cry concerneth thee, it calleth thee: Come, come, come; it is time, it is the highest time!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 303
Believe me, my brethren! It was the body which despaired of the earth—it heard the bowels of existence speaking unto it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3400
Woe saith: “Hence! Go! Away, thou woe!” But everything that suffereth wanteth to live, that it may become mature and lively and longing,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2653
—A posturing wrath-snorter with waiting, a holy howl-storm from the mountains, an impatient one that shouteth down into the valleys: “Hearken, else I will scourge you with the scourge of God!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2329
Life is a well of delight, but to him in whom the ruined stomach speaketh, the father of affliction, all fountains are poisoned.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 98
The saint answered: “I make hymns and sing them; and in making hymns I laugh and weep and mumble: thus do I praise God.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1966
Did I perhaps learn from it the long clear silence? Or did it learn it from me? Or hath each of us devised it himself?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3275
As the ancient poets relate it. But doubter, I’m now calling it In question: with this do I come indeed Out of Europe, That doubt’th more eagerly than doth any Elderly married woman. May the Lord improve it! Amen.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3287
The sky gazeth brightly thereon, the world lieth deep. Oh, all ye strange ones who have come to me, it is already worth while to have lived with me!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1728
But thou, O Zarathustra, wouldst view the ground of everything, and its background: thus must thou mount even above thyself—up, upwards, until thou hast even thy stars UNDER thee!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2520
With the storm that is called “spirit” did I blow over thy surging sea; all clouds did I blow away from it; I strangled even the strangler called “sin.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1444
But nevertheless I walk with my thoughts ABOVE their heads; and even should I walk on mine own errors, still would I be above them and their heads.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 326
But the awakened one, the knowing one, saith: “Body am I entirely, and nothing more; and soul is only the name of something in the body.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1041
Their knees continually adore, and their hands are eulogies of virtue, but their heart knoweth naught thereof.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1922
I pass through this people and let fall many words: but they know neither how to take nor how to retain them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3506
For what they dare to touch and break with the impudence and irreverence of the unappreciative, he seems likewise to touch and break,—but with other fingers—with the fingers of the loving and unembarrassed artist who is on good terms with the beautiful and who feels able to create it and to enhance it with his touch. The question of taste plays an important part in Nietzsche’s philosophy, and verses 9, 10 of this discourse exactly state Nietzsche’s ultimate views on the subject.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2430
Why so soft? O my brethren; thus do _I_ ask you: are ye then not—my brethren?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1040
And again there are those who love attitudes, and think that virtue is a sort of attitude.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 632
“To have fidelity, and for the sake of fidelity to risk honour and blood, even in evil and dangerous courses”—teaching itself so, another people mastered itself, and thus mastering itself, became pregnant and heavy with great hopes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3640
Here we have a description of that courageous and wayward spirit that literally haunts the footsteps of every great thinker and every great leader; sometimes with the result that it loses all aims, all hopes, and all trust in a definite goal. It is the case of the bravest and most broad-minded men of to-day.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 858
Ye venerate me; but what if your veneration should some day collapse? Take heed lest a statue crush you!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1842
Thus spake Zarathustra. And he waited for his misfortune the whole night; but he waited in vain. The night remained clear and calm, and happiness itself came nigher and nigher unto him. Towards morning, however, Zarathustra laughed to his heart, and said mockingly: “Happiness runneth after me. That is because I do not run after women. Happiness, however, is a woman.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3467
Now Nietzsche believed that the first or the noble-morality conduced to an ascent in the line of life; because it was creative and active. On the other hand, he believed that the second or slave-morality, where it became paramount, led to degeneration, because it was passive and defensive, wanting merely to keep those who practised it alive. Hence his earnest advocacy of noble-morality.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 256
Thus spake Zarathustra. And at that time he abode in the town which is called The Pied Cow.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1021
All the secrets of your heart shall be brought to light; and when ye lie in the sun, grubbed up and broken, then will also your falsehood be separated from your truth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1786
Had I ever heard a dog howl thus? My thoughts ran back. Yes! When I was a child, in my most distant childhood:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1338
A little more, a little less: precisely this is much here, it is the most here.