Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1565
Art thou not thyself the coffin full of many-hued malices and angel-caricatures of life?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 409
Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive—so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3619
The Magician is of course an artist, and Nietzsche’s intimate knowledge of perhaps the greatest artist of his age rendered the selection of Wagner, as the type in this discourse, almost inevitable. Most readers will be acquainted with the facts relating to Nietzsche’s and Wagner’s friendship and ultimate separation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3277
—Then forgot she thereby, as it seem’th to me, The OTHER leg? For vainly I, at least, Did search for the amissing Fellow-jewel —Namely, the other leg— In the sanctified precincts, Nigh her very dearest, very tenderest, Flapping and fluttering and flickering skirting. Yea, if ye should, ye beauteous friendly ones, Quite take my word: She hath, alas! LOST it! Hu! Hu! Hu! Hu! Hu! It is away! For ever away! The other leg! Oh, pity for that loveliest other leg!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 655
Ye call in a witness when ye want to speak well of yourselves; and when ye have misled him to think well of you, ye also think well of yourselves.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 428
“Yea, into the evil!” cried the youth. “How is it possible that thou hast discovered my soul?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2416
For the good—they CANNOT create; they are always the beginning of the end:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1083
On the tree of the future build we our nest; eagles shall bring us lone ones food in their beaks!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 431
I change too quickly: my to-day refuteth my yesterday. I often overleap the steps when I clamber; for so doing, none of the steps pardons me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2154
And then it happened also,—and verily, it happened for the first time!—that his word blessed SELFISHNESS, the wholesome, healthy selfishness, that springeth from the powerful soul:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 415
And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3417
—Joys want the eternity of ALL things, they WANT DEEP, PROFOUND ETERNITY!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 869
After this Zarathustra returned again into the mountains to the solitude of his cave, and withdrew himself from men, waiting like a sower who hath scattered his seed. His soul, however, became impatient and full of longing for those whom he loved: because he had still much to give them. For this is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3531
What follows is clear enough. Zarathustra sees a young shepherd struggling on the ground with a snake holding fast to the back of his throat. The sage, assuming that the snake must have crawled into the young man’s mouth while he lay sleeping, runs to his help and pulls at the loathsome reptile with all his might, but in vain. At last, in despair, Zarathustra appeals to the young man’s will. Knowing full well what a ghastly operation he is recommending, he nevertheless cries, “Bite! Bite! Its head off! Bite!” as the only possible solution of the difficulty. The young shepherd bites, and far away he spits the snake’s head, whereupon he rises, “No longer shepherd, no longer man—a transfigured being, a light-surrounded being, that LAUGHED! Never on earth laughed a man as he laughed!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 288
Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honourable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 79
Bless me, then, thou tranquil eye, that canst behold even the greatest happiness without envy!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1473
I became weary of the poets, of the old and of the new: superficial are they all unto me, and shallow seas.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1531
“—And I saw a great sadness come over mankind. The best turned weary of their works.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2691
Thou dost not believe this? Thou shakest thy head? Well! Cheer up, old bear! But I also—am a soothsayer.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 643
Many lands saw Zarathustra, and many peoples: no greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than the creations of the loving ones—“good” and “bad” are they called.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1336
His arm across his head: thus should the hero repose; thus should he also surmount his repose.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1226
Thus sang Zarathustra. But when the dance was over and the maidens had departed, he became sad.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2512
—I come again eternally to this identical and selfsame life, in its greatest and its smallest, to teach again the eternal return of all things,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2433
And if your hardness will not glance and cut and chip to pieces, how can ye one day—create with me?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2007
But the moon still revolveth around all that is earthly: so revolveth also the prince around what is earthliest of all—that, however, is the gold of the shopman.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3624
“Wagner in Bayreuth” (English Edition, 1909) gives us the best proof of Nietzsche’s infatuation, and although signs are not wanting in this essay which show how clearly and even cruelly he was sub-consciously “taking stock” of his friend—even then, the work is a record of what great love and admiration can do in the way of endowing the object of one’s affection with all the qualities and ideals that a fertile imagination can conceive.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2709
I am Zarathustra who once said: ‘What doth it now matter about kings!’ Forgive me; I rejoiced when ye said to each other: ‘What doth it matter about us kings!’
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3062
On your shoulders presseth many a burden, many a recollection; many a mischievous dwarf squatteth in your corners. There is concealed populace also in you.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3654
These have already been referred to in the Notes on Chapters LVII. (end) and LXXI.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2684
He is in MY domain: therein shall he receive no scath! And verily, there are many evil beasts about me.”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3353
My friends, what think ye? Will ye not, like me, say unto death: ‘Was THAT—life? For the sake of Zarathustra, well! Once more!’”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2024
But thy fools’-word injureth ME, even when thou art right! And even if Zarathustra’s word WERE a hundred times justified, thou wouldst ever—DO wrong with my word!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 137
I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2930
“Especially nowadays,” answered the voluntary beggar: “at present, that is to say, when everything low hath become rebellious and exclusive and haughty in its manner—in the manner of the populace.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2927
—Who was ashamed of his riches and of the rich, and fled to the poorest to bestow upon them his abundance and his heart? But they received him not.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3300
Amen! And glory and honour and wisdom and thanks and praise and strength be to our God, from everlasting to everlasting!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3628
The image of this God degenerates with the people that appropriate it, and gradually He becomes a God of love—“soft and mellow,” a lower middle-class deity, who is “pitiful.” He can no longer be a God who requires sacrifice, for we ourselves are no longer rich enough for that. The tables are therefore turned upon Him; HE must sacrifice to us. His pity becomes so great that he actually does sacrifice something to us—His only begotten Son.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2493
Ah, Disgust! Disgust! Disgust!—Thus spake Zarathustra, and sighed and shuddered; for he remembered his sickness. Then did his animals prevent him from speaking further.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3262
Thou alone makest the air around thee strong and clear! Did I ever find anywhere on earth such good air as with thee in thy cave?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 257
People commended unto Zarathustra a wise man, as one who could discourse well about sleep and virtue: greatly was he honoured and rewarded for it, and all the youths sat before his chair. To him went Zarathustra, and sat among the youths before his chair. And thus spake the wise man:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3183
Go out of the way of all such absolute ones! They have heavy feet and sultry hearts:—they do not know how to dance. How could the earth be light to such ones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2086
Another matter, however, is forsakenness. For, dost thou remember, O Zarathustra? When thy bird screamed overhead, when thou stoodest in the forest, irresolute, ignorant where to go, beside a corpse:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 963
It is difficult to live among men because silence is so difficult.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2129
—Not riddle enough to scare human love from it, not solution enough to put to sleep human wisdom:—a humanly good thing was the world to me to-day, of which such bad things are said!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1957
Him whom I love, I love better in winter than in summer; better do I now mock at mine enemies, and more heartily, when winter sitteth in my house.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2900
He ever beheld ME: on such a witness I would have revenge—or not live myself.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 298
What happened, my brethren? I surpassed myself, the suffering one; I carried mine own ashes to the mountain; a brighter flame I contrived for myself. And lo! Thereupon the phantom WITHDREW from me!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 972
And lately, did I hear him say these words: “God is dead: of his pity for man hath God died.”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 221
This had Zarathustra said to his heart when the sun stood at noontide. Then he looked inquiringly aloft,—for he heard above him the sharp call of a bird. And behold! An eagle swept through the air in wide circles, and on it hung a serpent, not like a prey, but like a friend: for it kept itself coiled round the eagle’s neck.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2970
With thee have I broken up whatever my heart revered; all boundary-stones and statues have I o’erthrown; the most dangerous wishes did I pursue,—verily, beyond every crime did I once go.