Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2269

The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick—how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however—is truth produced!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1977

And MUST I not conceal myself like one who hath swallowed gold—lest my soul should be ripped up?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 209

Behold the good and just! Whom do they hate most? Him who breaketh up their tables of values, the breaker, the law-breaker:—he, however, is the creator.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2527

O my soul, to thy domain gave I all wisdom to drink, all new wines, and also all immemorially old strong wines of wisdom.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2538

“Is not all weeping complaining? And all complaining, accusing?” Thus speakest thou to thyself; and therefore, O my soul, wilt thou rather smile than pour forth thy grief—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2374

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes. Thus have I already taught.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 175

Too long, perhaps, have I lived in the mountains; too much have I hearkened unto the brooks and trees: now do I speak unto them as unto the goatherds.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 828

Thus goeth the body through history, a becomer and fighter. And the spirit—what is it to the body? Its fights’ and victories’ herald, its companion and echo.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1734

—Deeper down into pain than I ever ascended, even into its darkest flood! So willeth my fate. Well! I am ready.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2793

“O Zarathustra, I am weary of it, I am disgusted with mine arts, I am not GREAT, why do I dissemble! But thou knowest it well—I sought for greatness!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2088

And dost thou remember, O Zarathustra? When thou sattest in thine isle, a well of wine giving and granting amongst empty buckets, bestowing and distributing amongst the thirsty:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 704

Verily, my brother, said Zarathustra, it is a treasure that hath been given me: it is a little truth which I carry.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 203

Long slept Zarathustra; and not only the rosy dawn passed over his head, but also the morning. At last, however, his eyes opened, and amazedly he gazed into the forest and the stillness, amazedly he gazed into himself. Then he arose quickly, like a seafarer who all at once seeth the land; and he shouted for joy: for he saw a new truth. And he spake thus to his heart:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 654

Would that ye could not endure it with any kind of near ones, or their neighbours; then would ye have to create your friend and his overflowing heart out of yourselves.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1871

This wantonness and folly did I put in place of that Will, when I taught that “In everything there is one thing impossible—rationality!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1792

And verily, what I saw, the like had I never seen. A young shepherd did I see, writhing, choking, quivering, with distorted countenance, and with a heavy black serpent hanging out of his mouth.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3458

Once the most favourable order of conduct is found, proved efficient and established, it becomes the ruling morality of the species that adopts it and bears them along to victory. All species must not and cannot value alike, for what is the lion’s good is the antelope’s evil and vice versa.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1315

A sublime one saw I to-day, a solemn one, a penitent of the spirit: Oh, how my soul laughed at his ugliness!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3676

It were the height of presumption to attempt to fix any particular interpretation of my own to the words of this song. With what has gone before, the reader, while reading it as poetry, should be able to seek and find his own meaning in it. The doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence appears for the last time here, in an art-form. Nietzsche lays stress upon the fact that all happiness, all delight, longs for repetitions, and just as a child cries “Again! Again!” to the adult who happens to be amusing him; so the man who sees a meaning, and a joyful meaning, in existence must also cry “Again!” and yet “Again!” to all his life.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3635

In this discourse, we undoubtedly have the ideal Buddhist, if not Gautama Buddha himself. Nietzsche had the greatest respect for Buddhism, and almost wherever he refers to it in his works, it is in terms of praise. He recognised that though Buddhism is undoubtedly a religion for decadents, its decadent values emanate from the higher and not, as in Christianity, from the lower grades of society. In Aphorism 20 of “The Antichrist”, he compares it exhaustively with Christianity, and the result of his investigation is very much in favour of the older religion. Still, he recognised a most decided Buddhistic influence in Christ’s teaching, and the words in verses 29, 30, and 31 are very reminiscent of his views in regard to the Christian Savior.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3271

Wonderful, truly! Here do I sit now, The desert nigh, and yet I am So far still from the desert, Even in naught yet deserted: That is, I’m swallowed down By this the smallest oasis—: —It opened up just yawning, Its loveliest mouth agape, Most sweet-odoured of all mouthlets: Then fell I right in, Right down, right through—in ’mong you, Ye friendly damsels dearly loved! Selah.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3047

Now doth it come to pass that solitude itself becometh fragile and breaketh open, like a grave that breaketh open and can no longer hold its dead. Everywhere one seeth resurrected ones.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 208

Herdsmen, I say, but they call themselves the good and just. Herdsmen, I say, but they call themselves the believers in the orthodox belief.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1102

Inspired ones they resemble: but it is not the heart that inspireth them—but vengeance. And when they become subtle and cold, it is not spirit, but envy, that maketh them so.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3504

These belong to a type which Nietzsche did not altogether dislike, but which he would fain have rendered more subtle and plastic. It is the type that takes life and itself too seriously, that never surmounts the camel-stage mentioned in the first discourse, and that is obdurately sublime and earnest. To be able to smile while speaking of lofty things and NOT TO BE OPPRESSED by them, is the secret of real greatness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1128

Yea, it hath revenged itself! And alas! now will it make my soul also dizzy with revenge!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1330

His deed itself is still the shadow upon him: his doing obscureth the doer. Not yet hath he overcome his deed.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2983

“Thy danger is not small, thou free spirit and wanderer! Thou hast had a bad day: see that a still worse evening doth not overtake thee!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 624

Never did the one neighbour understand the other: ever did his soul marvel at his neighbour’s delusion and wickedness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 177

And now do they look at me and laugh: and while they laugh they hate me too. There is ice in their laughter.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1628

Zarathustra answered: “What is there to be wondered at! With hunchbacks one may well speak in a hunchbacked way!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3061

Moreover, ye are not sufficiently beautiful and well-born for me. I require pure, smooth mirrors for my doctrines; on your surface even mine own likeness is distorted.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1032

And others are there who go along heavily and creakingly, like carts taking stones downhill: they talk much of dignity and virtue—their drag they call virtue!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3464

With the second, the slave-morality, the case is different. There, inasmuch as the community is an oppressed, suffering, unemancipated, and weary one, all THAT will be held to be good which alleviates the state of suffering.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1154

Spirit is life which itself cutteth into life: by its own torture doth it increase its own knowledge,—did ye know that before?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3236

And verily, we spake and thought long enough together ere Zarathustra came home to his cave, for me not to be unaware that we ARE different.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2151

Passion for power: but who would call it PASSION, when the height longeth to stoop for power! Verily, nothing sick or diseased is there in such longing and descending!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 928

No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3399

“Whatever hath become perfect, everything mature—wanteth to die!” so sayest thou. Blessed, blessed be the vintner’s knife! But everything immature wanteth to live: alas!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1736

That testimony is inscribed on their stones, and on the walls of their summits. Out of the deepest must the highest come to its height.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 408

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1303

Only where there is life, is there also will: not, however, Will to Life, but—so teach I thee—Will to Power!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 204

A light hath dawned upon me: I need companions—living ones; not dead companions and corpses, which I carry with me where I will.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 671

But thou wouldst go the way of thine affliction, which is the way unto thyself? Then show me thine authority and thy strength to do so!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1654

Also amongst men there is a beautiful brood of the warm sun, and much that is marvellous in the wicked.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 528

See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2310

Such persons sit down to the table and bring nothing with them, not even good hunger:—and then do they rail: “All is vain!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1068

And on the rulers turned I my back, when I saw what they now call ruling: to traffic and bargain for power—with the rabble!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2404

Human society: it is an attempt—so I teach—a long seeking: it seeketh however the ruler!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2611

If I be fond of the sea, and all that is sealike, and fondest of it when it angrily contradicteth me:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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