Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
3,679 passages indexed from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) — Page 58 of 74
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1511
In the mud of your contempt lay the statue: but it is just its law, that out of contempt, its life and living beauty grow again!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1143
Conscientious—so call I him who goeth into God-forsaken wildernesses, and hath broken his venerating heart.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2475
AND YE LOOKED ON AT IT ALL? O mine animals, are ye also cruel? Did ye like to look at my great pain as men do? For man is the cruellest animal.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2906
And talk first and foremost to mine animals! The proudest animal and the wisest animal—they might well be the right counsellors for us both!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 550
On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the arm of an absolute one.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3202
How many things are still possible! So LEARN to laugh beyond yourselves! Lift up your hearts, ye good dancers, high! higher! And do not forget the good laughter!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3441
My suffering and my fellow-suffering—what matter about them! Do I then strive after HAPPINESS? I strive after my WORK!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 564
They flatter thee, as one flattereth a God or devil; they whimper before thee, as before a God or devil. What doth it come to! Flatterers are they, and whimperers, and nothing more.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2506
—So that all those years are like one another in the greatest and also in the smallest, so that we ourselves, in every great year, are like ourselves in the greatest and also in the smallest.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2724
No one ever spake such warlike words: ‘What is good? To be brave is good. It is the good war that halloweth every cause.’
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 965
If, however, thou hast a suffering friend, then be a resting-place for his suffering; like a hard bed, however, a camp-bed: thus wilt thou serve him best.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 30
In that summer of 1881, my brother, after many years of steadily declining health, began at last to rally, and it is to this first gush of the recovery of his once splendid bodily condition that we owe not only “The Gay Science”, which in its mood may be regarded as a prelude to “Zarathustra”, but also “Zarathustra” itself. Just as he was beginning to recuperate his health, however, an unkind destiny brought him a number of most painful personal experiences.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2679
But all is alike, nothing is worth while, no seeking is of service, there are no longer any Happy Isles!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1006
But blood is the very worst witness to truth; blood tainteth the purest teaching, and turneth it into delusion and hatred of heart.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 669
The voice of the herd will still echo in thee. And when thou sayest, “I have no longer a conscience in common with you,” then will it be a plaint and a pain.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 523
Yea, a dying for many hath here been devised, which glorifieth itself as life: verily, a hearty service unto all preachers of death!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 852
Verily, a place of healing shall the earth become! And already is a new odour diffused around it, a salvation-bringing odour—and a new hope!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 696
Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2017
Floweth there not a tainted, frothy, swamp-blood in thine own veins, when thou hast thus learned to croak and revile?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 82
Zarathustra went down the mountain alone, no one meeting him. When he entered the forest, however, there suddenly stood before him an old man, who had left his holy cot to seek roots. And thus spake the old man to Zarathustra:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2201
With mummies, some fall in love; others with phantoms: both alike hostile to all flesh and blood—oh, how repugnant are both to my taste! For I love blood.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2263
IN OURSELVES dwelleth he still, the old idol-priest, who broileth our best for his banquet. Ah, my brethren, how could firstlings fail to be sacrifices!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 286
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1070
And holding my nose, I went morosely through all yesterdays and to-days: verily, badly smell all yesterdays and to-days of the scribbling rabble!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2383
For, my brethren, the best shall rule, the best also WILLETH to rule! And where the teaching is different, there—the best is LACKING.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 959
“Behold, I am disease,” saith the evil deed: that is its honourableness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 191
But still am I far from them, and my sense speaketh not unto their sense. To men I am still something between a fool and a corpse.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 238
Or is it this: To go into foul water when it is the water of truth, and not disclaim cold frogs and hot toads?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1731
I recognise my destiny, said he at last, sadly. Well! I am ready. Now hath my last lonesomeness begun.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3329
—“And thou thyself, finally,” said Zarathustra, and turned towards the ugliest man, who still lay on the ground stretching up his arm to the ass (for he gave it wine to drink). “Say, thou nondescript, what hast thou been about!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1835
As yet hath the hour of my final struggle not come to me—or doth it come to me perhaps just now? Verily, with insidious beauty do sea and life gaze upon me round about:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 14
And just as the old system of valuing, which only extolled the qualities favourable to the weak, the suffering, and the oppressed, has succeeded in producing a weak, suffering, and “modern” race, so this new and reversed system of valuing ought to rear a healthy, strong, lively, and courageous type, which would be a glory to life itself. Stated briefly, the leading principle of this new system of valuing would be: “All that proceeds from power is good, all that springs from weakness is bad.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2982
Thus spake the shadow, and Zarathustra’s countenance lengthened at his words. “Thou art my shadow!” said he at last sadly.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1985
—If I did not myself sigh before them, and chatter with cold, and patiently LET myself be swathed in their pity!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2785
—I heard thee lament ‘we have loved him too little, loved him too little!’ Because I so far deceived thee, my wickedness rejoiced in me.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3348
And should ye celebrate it again, this ass-festival, do it from love to yourselves, do it also from love to me! And in remembrance of me!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2999
As such a ship huggeth the shore, tuggeth the shore:—then it sufficeth for a spider to spin its thread from the ship to the land. No stronger ropes are required there.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3038
There is nothing, O Zarathustra, that groweth more pleasingly on earth than a lofty, strong will: it is the finest growth. An entire landscape refresheth itself at one such tree.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1512
With diviner features doth it now arise, seducing by its suffering; and verily! it will yet thank you for o’erthrowing it, ye subverters!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1895
And recently did a woman seize upon her child that was coming unto me: “Take the children away,” cried she, “such eyes scorch children’s souls.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2625
—Thus however speaketh avian wisdom:—“Lo, there is no above and no below! Throw thyself about,—outward, backward, thou light one! Sing! speak no more!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1917
And when they chance to speak harshly, those small people, then do _I_ hear therein only their hoarseness—every draught of air maketh them hoarse.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3582
Nietzsche was not an iconoclast from predilection. No bitterness or empty hate dictated his vituperations against existing values and against the dogmas of his parents and forefathers. He knew too well what these things meant to the millions who profess them, to approach the task of uprooting them with levity or even with haste. He saw what modern anarchists and revolutionists do NOT see—namely, that man is in danger of actual destruction when his customs and values are broken. I need hardly point out, therefore, how deeply he was conscious of the responsibility he threw upon our shoulders when he invited us to reconsider our position. The lines in this paragraph are evidence enough of his earnestness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1996
Smellest thou not already the shambles and cookshops of the spirit? Steameth not this city with the fumes of slaughtered spirit?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1108
And when they call themselves “the good and just,” forget not, that for them to be Pharisees, nothing is lacking but—power!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2788
Thou bad false coiner, how couldst thou do otherwise! Thy very malady wouldst thou whitewash if thou showed thyself naked to thy physician.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1046
But Zarathustra came not to say unto all those liars and fools: “What do YE know of virtue! What COULD ye know of virtue!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3115
Surpass, ye higher men, the petty virtues, the petty policy, the sand-grain considerateness, the ant-hill trumpery, the pitiable comfortableness, the “happiness of the greatest number”—!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2663
The next day sat Zarathustra again on the stone in front of his cave, whilst his animals roved about in the world outside to bring home new food,—also new honey: for Zarathustra had spent and wasted the old honey to the very last particle. When he thus sat, however, with a stick in his hand, tracing the shadow of his figure on the earth, and reflecting—verily! not upon himself and his shadow,—all at once he startled and shrank back: for he saw another shadow beside his own.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 419
Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!