Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2106

In indulging and pitying lay ever my greatest danger; and all human hubbub wisheth to be indulged and tolerated.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1893

This is the new stillness which I have experienced: their noise around me spreadeth a mantle over my thoughts.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2205

Unhappy do I also call those who have ever to WAIT,—they are repugnant to my taste—all the toll-gatherers and traders, and kings, and other landkeepers and shopkeepers.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1054

Thus will they be comforted; and like them shall ye also, my friends, have your comforting—and new speckled shells!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 824

Sickness speaketh in such craving, and invisible degeneration; of a sickly body, speaketh the larcenous craving of this selfishness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 703

Is it a treasure that hath been given thee? Or a child that hath been born thee? Or goest thou thyself on a thief’s errand, thou friend of the evil?”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3552

If we mention it with favour we may be regarded, however unjustly, as the advocate of savages, satyrs, and pure sensuality. If we condemn it, we either go over to the Puritans or we join those who are wont to come to table with no edge to their appetites and who therefore grumble at all good fare.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2279

“Woe to us! Hail to us! The thawing wind bloweth!”—Thus preach, my brethren, through all the streets!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 956

The worst things, however, are the petty thoughts. Verily, better to have done evilly than to have thought pettily!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 865

At such time will the down-goer bless himself, that he should be an over-goer; and the sun of his knowledge will be at noontide.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2898

But he—HAD TO die: he looked with eyes which beheld EVERYTHING,—he beheld men’s depths and dregs, all his hidden ignominy and ugliness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3215

But already doth IT attack me and constrain me, this spirit of melancholy, this evening-twilight devil: and verily, ye higher men, it hath a longing—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3625

When the blow came it was therefore all the more severe. Nietzsche at length realised that the friend of his fancy and the real Richard Wagner—the composer of Parsifal—were not one; the fact dawned upon him slowly; disappointment upon disappointment, revelation after revelation, ultimately brought it home to him, and though his best instincts were naturally opposed to it at first, the revulsion of feeling at last became too strong to be ignored, and Nietzsche was plunged into the blackest despair. Years after his break with Wagner, he wrote “The Case of Wagner”, and “Nietzsche contra Wagner”, and these works are with us to prove the sincerity and depth of his views on the man who was the greatest event of his life.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3209

And already, ye higher men—let me tickle you with this complimentary and flattering name, as he himself doeth—already doth mine evil spirit of deceit and magic attack me, my melancholy devil,

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3303

Uncomely goeth he through the world. Grey is the favourite colour in which he wrappeth his virtue. Hath he spirit, then doth he conceal it; every one, however, believeth in his long ears.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2841

When he was young, that God out of the Orient, then was he harsh and revengeful, and built himself a hell for the delight of his favourites.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3154

Ye creating ones, ye higher men! Whoever hath to give birth is sick; whoever hath given birth, however, is unclean.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2700

Populace-hodgepodge: therein is everything mixed with everything, saint and swindler, gentleman and Jew, and every beast out of Noah’s ark.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 284

A magic resideth even in his academic chair. And not in vain did the youths sit before the preacher of virtue.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1735

Whence come the highest mountains? so did I once ask. Then did I learn that they come out of the sea.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 540

Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1207

But thou pulledst me out with a golden angle; derisively didst thou laugh when I called thee unfathomable.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 223

“The proudest animal under the sun, and the wisest animal under the sun,—they have come out to reconnoitre.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1740

Hark! Hark! How it groaneth with evil recollections! Or evil expectations?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1192

‘Tis night: alas, that I have to be light! And thirst for the nightly! And lonesomeness!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 327

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1517

For it seeketh by all means to be the most important creature on earth, the state; and people think it so.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 997

And he who liveth nigh unto them liveth nigh unto black pools, wherein the toad singeth his song with sweet gravity.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2855

Let me be thy guest, O Zarathustra, for a single night! Nowhere on earth shall I now feel better than with thee!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3310

And thou thyself, thou old pope, how is it in accordance with thee, to adore an ass in such a manner as God?”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1488

But of this spirit became I weary; and I see the time coming when it will become weary of itself.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2059

Or they listen to an old roving howl- and growl-piper, who hath learnt from the sad winds the sadness of sounds; now pipeth he as the wind, and preacheth sadness in sad strains.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2314

For these are all unclean spirits; especially those, however, who have no peace or rest, unless they see the world FROM THE BACKSIDE—the backworldsmen!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 405

I want to have goblins about me, for I am courageous. The courage which scareth away ghosts, createth for itself goblins—it wanteth to laugh.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2806

Many a one have I found who stretched and inflated himself, and the people cried: ‘Behold; a great man!’ But what good do all bellows do! The wind cometh out at last.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3140

And on the market-place one convinceth with gestures. But reasons make the populace distrustful.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1205

And this is the song that Zarathustra sang when Cupid and the maidens danced together:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 999

Naked, would I like to see them: for beauty alone should preach penitence. But whom would that disguised affliction convince!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3576

Heroism foiled, thwarted, and wrecked, hoping and fighting until the last, is at length overtaken by despair, and renounces all struggle for sleep. This is not the natural or constitutional pessimism which proceeds from an unhealthy body—the dyspeptic’s lack of appetite; it is rather the desperation of the netted lion that ultimately stops all movement, because the more it moves the more involved it becomes.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2719

‘Twas once—methinks year one of our blessed Lord,—Drunk without wine, the Sybil thus deplored:—“How ill things go! Decline! Decline! Ne’er sank the world so low! Rome now hath turned harlot and harlot-stew, Rome’s Caesar a beast, and God—hath turned Jew!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3499

The tarantulas are the Socialists and Democrats. This discourse offers us an analysis of their mental attitude. Nietzsche refuses to be confounded with those resentful and revengeful ones who condemn society FROM BELOW, and whose criticism is only suppressed envy. “There are those who preach my doctrine of life,” he says of the Nietzschean Socialists, “and are at the same time preachers of equality and tarantulas” (see Notes on Chapter XL. and Chapter LI.).

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3293

The DISGUST departeth from these higher men; well! that is my victory. In my domain they become assured; all stupid shame fleeth away; they empty themselves.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 851

Ye lonesome ones of to-day, ye seceding ones, ye shall one day be a people: out of you who have chosen yourselves, shall a chosen people arise:—and out of it the Superman.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 499

Resistance—that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1452

And sometimes, also, do I find a fugitive creature in my dovecote, which is alien to me, and trembleth when I lay my hand upon it.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 814

Tell me, pray: how came gold to the highest value? Because it is uncommon, and unprofiting, and beaming, and soft in lustre; it always bestoweth itself.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2791

Thou hast reaped disgust as thy one truth. No word in thee is any longer genuine, but thy mouth is so: that is to say, the disgust that cleaveth unto thy mouth.”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 471

“Lust is sin,”—so say some who preach death—“let us go apart and beget no children!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3325

God is said to be eternal, according to the testimony of the most pious: he who hath so much time taketh his time. As slow and as stupid as possible: THEREBY can such a one nevertheless go very far.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 132

I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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