Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
3,679 passages indexed from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) — Page 59 of 74
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1558
Then did a roaring wind tear the folds apart: whistling, whizzing, and piercing, it threw unto me a black coffin.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 720
In your love be your honour! Little doth woman understand otherwise about honour. But let this be your honour: always to love more than ye are loved, and never be the second.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 155
I will speak unto them of the most contemptible thing: that, however, is THE LAST MAN!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2739
The bleeding one laughed, still angry, “What matter is it to thee!” said he, and was about to go on. “Here am I at home and in my province. Let him question me whoever will: to a dolt, however, I shall hardly answer.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1329
Dark is still his countenance; the shadow of his hand danceth upon it. O’ershadowed is still the sense of his eye.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 279
Sleep tappeth on mine eye, and it turneth heavy. Sleep toucheth my mouth, and it remaineth open.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 258
Respect and modesty in presence of sleep! That is the first thing! And to go out of the way of all who sleep badly and keep awake at night!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 629
“Always shalt thou be the foremost and prominent above others: no one shall thy jealous soul love, except a friend”—that made the soul of a Greek thrill: thereby went he his way to greatness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3196
So unlearn, I pray you, the sorrow-sighing, and all the populace-sadness! Oh, how sad the buffoons of the populace seem to me to-day! This to-day, however, is that of the populace.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2437
O thou, my Will! Thou change of every need, MY needfulness! Preserve me from all small victories!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2099
O blessed stillness around me! O pure odours around me! How from a deep breast this stillness fetcheth pure breath! How it hearkeneth, this blessed stillness!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2172
My foot—is a horse-foot; therewith do I trample and trot over stick and stone, in the fields up and down, and am bedevilled with delight in all fast racing.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2032
Those young hearts have already all become old—and not old even! only weary, ordinary, comfortable:—they declare it: “We have again become pious.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1708
But even this have ye heard from me, WHO is still the most reserved of men—and will be so!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2776
I will soon make warm legs to thee, thou evil magician: I know well how—to make it hot for such as thou!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2382
They lay lures for one another, they lure things out of one another,—that they call “good neighbourliness.” O blessed remote period when a people said to itself: “I will be—MASTER over peoples!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 778
Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept: “Die at the right time!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1392
And now is your spirit ashamed to be at the service of your bowels, and goeth by-ways and lying ways to escape its own shame.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 265
Few people know it, but one must have all the virtues in order to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3090
I am a law only for mine own; I am not a law for all. He, however, who belongeth unto me must be strong of bone and light of foot,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3326
And he who hath too much spirit might well become infatuated with stupidity and folly. Think of thyself, O Zarathustra!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2169
And he who proclaimeth the EGO wholesome and holy, and selfishness blessed, verily, he, the prognosticator, speaketh also what he knoweth: “BEHOLD, IT COMETH, IT IS NIGH, THE GREAT NOONTIDE!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 231
Many heavy things are there for the spirit, the strong load-bearing spirit in which reverence dwelleth: for the heavy and the heaviest longeth its strength.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 673
Alas! there is so much lusting for loftiness! There are so many convulsions of the ambitions! Show me that thou art not a lusting and ambitious one!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 575
Thy neighbours will always be poisonous flies; what is great in thee—that itself must make them more poisonous, and always more fly-like.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 106
Ye have made your way from the worm to man, and much within you is still worm. Once were ye apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2903
“Thou nondescript,” said he, “thou warnedst me against thy path. As thanks for it I praise mine to thee. Behold, up thither is the cave of Zarathustra.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2252
Surpass thyself even in thy neighbour: and a right which thou canst seize upon, shalt thou not allow to be given thee!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 699
To create, desireth the loving one, because he despiseth! What knoweth he of love who hath not been obliged to despise just what he loved!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3615
On his way Zarathustra meets two more higher men of his time; two kings cross his path. They are above the average modern type; for their instincts tell them what real ruling is, and they despise the mockery which they have been taught to call “Reigning.” “We ARE NOT the first men,” they say, “and have nevertheless to STAND FOR them: of this imposture have we at last become weary and disgusted.” It is the kings who tell Zarathustra: “There is no sorer misfortune in all human destiny than when the mighty of the earth are not also the first men. There everything becometh false and distorted and monstrous.” The kings are also asked by Zarathustra to accept the shelter of his cave, whereupon he proceeds on his way.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1055
Life is a well of delight; but where the rabble also drink, there all fountains are poisoned.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2751
—A handbreadth of basis: thereon can one stand. In the true knowing-knowledge there is nothing great and nothing small.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 604
One ought still to honour the enemy in one’s friend. Canst thou go nigh unto thy friend, and not go over to him?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 342
But it is now too late to do so:—so your Self wisheth to succumb, ye despisers of the body.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2459
All things long for thee, since thou hast remained alone for seven days—step forth out of thy cave! All things want to be thy physicians!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1347
For this is the secret of the soul: when the hero hath abandoned it, then only approacheth it in dreams—the superhero.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2749
Better know nothing than half-know many things! Better be a fool on one’s own account, than a sage on other people’s approbation! I—go to the basis:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2741
Call me however what thou wilt—I am who I must be. I call myself Zarathustra.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 299
To me the convalescent would it now be suffering and torment to believe in such phantoms: suffering would it now be to me, and humiliation. Thus speak I to backworldsmen.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1785
Thus did I speak, and always more softly: for I was afraid of mine own thoughts, and arrear-thoughts. Then, suddenly did I hear a dog HOWL near me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1930
I am Zarathustra the godless! I cook every chance in MY pot. And only when it hath been quite cooked do I welcome it as MY food.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1640
And he who would not languish amongst men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean amongst men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1331
To be sure, I love in him the shoulders of the ox: but now do I want to see also the eye of the angel.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1824
Desiring—that is now for me to have lost myself. I POSSESS YOU, MY CHILDREN! In this possessing shall everything be assurance and nothing desire.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2339
World-weary ones! And have not even withdrawn from the earth! Eager did I ever find you for the earth, amorous still of your own earth-weariness!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2193
Again, it deceiveth about many things in man, that many a shell is poor and pitiable, and too much of a shell. Much concealed goodness and power is never dreamt of; the choicest dainties find no tasters!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2133
VOLUPTUOUSNESS, PASSION FOR POWER, and SELFISHNESS: these three things have hitherto been best cursed, and have been in worst and falsest repute—these three things will I weigh humanly well.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 957
To be sure, ye say: “The delight in petty evils spareth one many a great evil deed.” But here one should not wish to be sparing.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1306
Verily, I say unto you: good and evil which would be everlasting—it doth not exist! Of its own accord must it ever surpass itself anew.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3480
Almost the whole of this is quite comprehensible. It is a discourse against all those who confound virtue with tameness and smug ease, and who regard as virtuous only that which promotes security and tends to deepen sleep.