Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2450

And once thou art awake, then shalt thou ever remain awake. It is not MY custom to awake great-grandmothers out of their sleep that I may bid them—sleep on!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1479

Ah, I cast indeed my net into their sea, and meant to catch good fish; but always did I draw up the head of some ancient God.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 240

All these heaviest things the load-bearing spirit taketh upon itself: and like the camel, which, when laden, hasteneth into the wilderness, so hasteneth the spirit into its wilderness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1882

Did perhaps a silly child take them out of its toy-box? Would that another child put them again into the box!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2233

Where all time seemed to me a blessed mockery of moments, where necessity was freedom itself, which played happily with the goad of freedom:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3023

“Ye despairing ones! Ye strange ones! So it was YOUR cry of distress that I heard? And now do I know also where he is to be sought, whom I have sought for in vain to-day: THE HIGHER MAN—:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2642

—A sea full of many-hued fishes and crabs, for which even the Gods might long, and might be tempted to become fishers in it, and casters of nets,—so rich is the world in wonderful things, great and small!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1687

And I answered: “What hath not the skin of my humility endured! At the foot of my height do I dwell: how high are my summits, no one hath yet told me. But well do I know my valleys.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2232

—As an eternal self-fleeing and re-seeking of one another of many Gods, as the blessed self-contradicting, recommuning, and refraternising with one another of many Gods:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1069

Amongst peoples of a strange language did I dwell, with stopped ears: so that the language of their trafficking might remain strange unto me, and their bargaining for power.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1064

And it is not the mouthful which hath most choked me, to know that life itself requireth enmity and death and torture-crosses:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2656

What must one day come and may not pass by? Our great Hazar, that is to say, our great, remote human-kingdom, the Zarathustra-kingdom of a thousand years—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1684

Then was there again spoken unto me without voice: “What matter about thyself, Zarathustra! Speak thy word, and succumb!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1248

Then did ye haunt me with foul phantoms; ah, whither hath that happy hour now fled!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2153

Oh, who could find the right prenomen and honouring name for such longing! “Bestowing virtue”—thus did Zarathustra once name the unnamable.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3359

And immediately it became still and mysterious round about; from the depth however there came up slowly the sound of a clock-bell. Zarathustra listened thereto, like the higher men; then, however, laid he his finger on his mouth the second time, and said again: “COME! COME! IT IS GETTING ON TO MIDNIGHT!”—and his voice had changed. But still he had not moved from the spot. Then it became yet stiller and more mysterious, and everything hearkened, even the ass, and Zarathustra’s noble animals, the eagle and the serpent,—likewise the cave of Zarathustra and the big cool moon, and the night itself. Zarathustra, however, laid his hand upon his mouth for the third time, and said:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 743

Tell me: where find we justice, which is love with seeing eyes?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 282

A fool seemeth this wise man with his forty thoughts: but I believe he knoweth well how to sleep.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1419

And this meaneth TO ME knowledge: all that is deep shall ascend—to my height!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3144

Freedom from fever is still far from being knowledge! Refrigerated spirits I do not believe in. He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3311

“O Zarathustra,” answered the pope, “forgive me, but in divine matters I am more enlightened even than thou. And it is right that it should be so.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 89

Now I love God: men, I do not love. Man is a thing too imperfect for me. Love to man would be fatal to me.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1159

Verily, ye know not the spirit’s pride! But still less could ye endure the spirit’s humility, should it ever want to speak!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 493

“What is good?” ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: “To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1774

They are antithetical to one another, these roads; they directly abut on one another:—and it is here, at this gateway, that they come together. The name of the gateway is inscribed above: ‘This Moment.’

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 825

Tell me, my brother, what do we think bad, and worst of all? Is it not DEGENERATION?—And we always suspect degeneration when the bestowing soul is lacking.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2184

And verily, it is no commandment for to-day and to-morrow to LEARN to love oneself. Rather is it of all arts the finest, subtlest, last and patientest.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1781

And are not all things closely bound together in such wise that This Moment draweth all coming things after it? CONSEQUENTLY—itself also?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 33

Whether my brother would ever have written “Thus Spake Zarathustra” according to the first plan sketched in the summer of 1881, if he had not had the disappointments already referred to, is now an idle question; but perhaps where “Zarathustra” is concerned, we may also say with Master Eckhardt: “The fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3246

For FEAR—is an exception with us. Courage, however, and adventure, and delight in the uncertain, in the unattempted—COURAGE seemeth to me the entire primitive history of man.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3151

“For one’s neighbour,” is the virtue only of the petty people: there it is said “like and like,” and “hand washeth hand”:—they have neither the right nor the power for YOUR self-seeking!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 975

“Myself do I offer unto my love, AND MY NEIGHBOUR AS MYSELF”—such is the language of all creators.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2132

He who taught to bless taught also to curse: what are the three best cursed things in the world? These will I put on the scales.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2708

“He who hearkeneth unto you, he who gladly hearkeneth unto you, is called Zarathustra.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2583

—When thou hearest this clock strike the hours at midnight, then thinkest thou between one and twelve thereon—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2562

Here are caves and thickets: we shall go astray!—Halt! Stand still! Seest thou not owls and bats in fluttering fray?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1715

And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience—a wandering will be therein, and a mountain-climbing: in the end one experienceth only oneself.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2480

Towards himself man is the cruellest animal; and in all who call themselves “sinners” and “bearers of the cross” and “penitents,” do not overlook the voluptuousness in their plaints and accusations!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3490

Only thus, and he is undoubtedly right, can their combined instincts lead to the excellence of humanity. Regarded in this light, all his views on woman appear not only necessary but just (see Note on Chapter LVI., par. 21.)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1662

So alien are ye in your souls to what is great, that to you the Superman would be FRIGHTFUL in his goodness!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 144

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3455

Perhaps it would be as well to start out with a broad and rapid sketch of Nietzsche as a writer on Morals, Evolution, and Sociology, so that the reader may be prepared to pick out for himself, so to speak, all passages in this work bearing in any way upon Nietzsche’s views in those three important branches of knowledge.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3669

In this discourse, Nietzsche wishes to give his followers a warning. He thinks he has so far helped them that they have become convalescent, that new desires are awakened in them and that new hopes are in their arms and legs. But he mistakes the nature of the change. True, he has helped them, he has given them back what they most need, i.e., belief in believing—the confidence in having confidence in something, but how do they use it?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2387

All the animals hath man already robbed of their virtues: that is why of all animals it hath been hardest for man.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2361

What is the highest of all species of being, and what is the lowest? The parasite is the lowest species; he, however, who is of the highest species feedeth most parasites.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2280

There is an old illusion—it is called good and evil. Around soothsayers and astrologers hath hitherto revolved the orbit of this illusion.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 695

A heretic wilt thou be to thyself, and a wizard and a soothsayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1539

Verily, even for dying have we become too weary; now do we keep awake and live on—in sepulchres.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3135

—Until at last they are false towards themselves, squint-eyed, whited cankers, glossed over with strong words, parade virtues and brilliant false deeds.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1905

And many of them go forward, and look backwards thereby, with stiffened necks: those do I like to run up against.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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