Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 43

I wanted to go to Aquila—the opposite of Rome in every respect, and actually founded in a spirit of enmity towards that city (just as I also shall found a city some day), as a memento of an atheist and genuine enemy of the Church—a person very closely related to me,—the great Hohenstaufen, the Emperor Frederick II. But Fate lay behind it all: I had to return again to Rome.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1686

Then was there again spoken unto me without voice: “What matter about thyself? Thou art not yet humble enough for me. Humility hath the hardest skin.”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 333

Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage—it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3564

Here we have a description of the kind of altruism Nietzsche exacted from higher men. It is really a comment upon “The Bestowing Virtue” (see Note on Chapter XXII.).

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3340

—Because ye at last did again as children do—namely, prayed, folded your hands and said ‘good God’!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1359

He who would strip you of veils and wrappers, and paints and gestures, would just have enough left to scare the crows.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2119

With sharp breezes tickled, as with sparkling wine, SNEEZETH my soul— sneezeth, and shouteth self-congratulatingly: “Health to thee!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 969

Ah, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the pitiful? And what in the world hath caused more suffering than the follies of the pitiful?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 293

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2648

Thus may men now come UP to me; for as yet do I await the signs that it is time for my down-going; as yet do I not myself go down, as I must do, amongst men.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 545

To-morrow he hath a new belief, and the day after, one still newer. Sharp perceptions hath he, like the people, and changeable humours.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 24

“The fundamental idea of my work—namely, the Eternal Recurrence of all things—this highest of all possible formulae of a Yea-saying philosophy, first occurred to me in August 1881. I made a note of the thought on a sheet of paper, with the postscript: 6,000 feet beyond men and time! That day I happened to be wandering through the woods alongside of the lake of Silvaplana, and I halted beside a huge, pyramidal and towering rock not far from Surlei. It was then that the thought struck me.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2608

—For there is a salt which uniteth good with evil; and even the evilest is worthy, as spicing and as final over-foaming:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3224

THAT, THAT is thine own blessedness! Of a panther and eagle—blessedness! Of a poet and fool—the blessedness!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2424

False shores and false securities did the good teach you; in the lies of the good were ye born and bred. Everything hath been radically contorted and distorted by the good.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2147

Passion for power: the earthquake which breaketh and upbreaketh all that is rotten and hollow; the rolling, rumbling, punitive demolisher of whited sepulchres; the flashing interrogative-sign beside premature answers.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2870

Thou couldst not ENDURE him who beheld THEE,—who ever beheld thee through and through, thou ugliest man. Thou tookest revenge on this witness!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3407

Said ye ever Yea to one joy? O my friends, then said ye Yea also unto ALL woe. All things are enlinked, enlaced and enamoured,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3026

—One who will make you laugh once more, a good jovial buffoon, a dancer, a wind, a wild romp, some old fool:—what think ye?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3161

He whose fathers were inclined for women, and for strong wine and flesh of wildboar swine; what would it be if he demanded chastity of himself?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 87

As in the sea hast thou lived in solitude, and it hath borne thee up. Alas, wilt thou now go ashore? Alas, wilt thou again drag thy body thyself?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3074

Thus spake Zarathustra, and stopped suddenly in his discourse: for his longing came over him, and he closed his eyes and his mouth, because of the agitation of his heart. And all his guests also were silent, and stood still and confounded: except only that the old soothsayer made signs with his hands and his gestures.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1397

Oh, ye sentimental dissemblers, ye covetous ones! Ye lack innocence in your desire: and now do ye defame desiring on that account!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 158

Alas! there cometh the time when man will no longer launch the arrow of his longing beyond man—and the string of his bow will have unlearned to whizz!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3165

In solitude there groweth what any one bringeth into it—also the brute in one’s nature. Thus is solitude inadvisable unto many.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2618

If my wickedness be a laughing wickedness, at home among rose-banks and hedges of lilies:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1095

Because, FOR MAN TO BE REDEEMED FROM REVENGE—that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1132

And on that account also did they tolerate your unbelief, because it was a pleasantry and a by-path for the people. Thus doth the master give free scope to his slaves, and even enjoyeth their presumptuousness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1196

One evening went Zarathustra and his disciples through the forest; and when he sought for a well, lo, he lighted upon a green meadow peacefully surrounded with trees and bushes, where maidens were dancing together. As soon as the maidens recognised Zarathustra, they ceased dancing; Zarathustra, however, approached them with friendly mien and spake these words:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1854

And wandered I alone, for WHAT did my soul hunger by night and in labyrinthine paths? And climbed I mountains, WHOM did I ever seek, if not thee, upon mountains?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2246

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3108

O my brethren, what I can love in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going. And also in you there is much that maketh me love and hope.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1745

Every monster wouldst thou caress. A whiff of warm breath, a little soft tuft on its paw—: and immediately wert thou ready to love and lure it.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 891

And mine enemies amongst them! How I now love every one unto whom I may but speak! Even mine enemies pertain to my bliss.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1969

—Like it to stifle one’s sun, and one’s inflexible solar will: verily, this art and this winter-roguishness have I learnt WELL!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3621

Long before he met Wagner he must have idealised him in his mind to an extent which only a profoundly artistic nature could have been capable of. Nietzsche always had high ideals for humanity.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 930

Away from God and Gods did this will allure me; what would there be to create if there were—Gods!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2710

Here, however, is MY domain and jurisdiction: what may ye be seeking in my domain? Perhaps, however, ye have FOUND on your way what _I_ seek: namely, the higher man.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2216

—The hour of my descent, of my down-going: for once more will I go unto men.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1107

Distrust all those who talk much of their justice! Verily, in their souls not only honey is lacking.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2701

Good manners! Everything is false and foul with us. No one knoweth any longer how to reverence: it is THAT precisely that we run away from. They are fulsome obtrusive dogs; they gild palm-leaves.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3187

And though there be on earth fens and dense afflictions, he who hath light feet runneth even across the mud, and danceth, as upon well-swept ice.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2261

We all bleed on secret sacrificial altars, we all burn and broil in honour of ancient idols.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2322

“And thine own reason—this shalt thou thyself stifle and choke; for it is a reason of this world,—thereby wilt thou learn thyself to renounce the world.”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 773

Your love to woman, and woman’s love to man—ah, would that it were sympathy for suffering and veiled deities! But generally two animals alight on one another.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3281

“Whither hath their distress now gone?” said he, and already did he himself feel relieved of his petty disgust—“with me, it seemeth that they have unlearned their cries of distress!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3132

Unto these men of to-day will I not be LIGHT, nor be called light. THEM—will I blind: lightning of my wisdom! put out their eyes!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2877

—Their pity is it from which I flee away and flee to thee. O Zarathustra, protect me, thou, my last refuge, thou sole one who divinedst me:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 645

A thousand goals have there been hitherto, for a thousand peoples have there been. Only the fetter for the thousand necks is still lacking; there is lacking the one goal. As yet humanity hath not a goal.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1847

In that thou camest unto me beautiful, veiled in thy beauty, in that thou spakest unto me mutely, obvious in thy wisdom:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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