Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 404
The atmosphere rare and pure, danger near and the spirit full of a joyful wickedness: thus are things well matched.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 123
Have ye ever spoken thus? Have ye ever cried thus? Ah! would that I had heard you crying thus!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1650
Your lies doth he even believe when you lie favourably about him: for in its depths sigheth his heart: “What am _I_?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3274
To the there-named south-fruits now, Similar, all-too-similar, Do I lie here; by little Flying insects Round-sniffled and round-played, And also by yet littler, Foolisher, and peccabler Wishes and phantasies,— Environed by you, Ye silent, presentientest Maiden-kittens, Dudu and Suleika, —ROUNDSPHINXED, that into one word I may crowd much feeling: (Forgive me, O God, All such speech-sinning!) —Sit I here the best of air sniffling, Paradisal air, truly, Bright and buoyant air, golden-mottled, As goodly air as ever From lunar orb downfell— Be it by hazard, Or supervened it by arrogancy?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2013
Where everything maimed, ill-famed, lustful, untrustful, over-mellow, sickly-yellow and seditious, festereth pernicious:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3516
This refers, of course, to Schopenhauer. Nietzsche, as is well known, was at one time an ardent follower of Schopenhauer. He overcame Pessimism by discovering an object in existence; he saw the possibility of raising society to a higher level and preached the profoundest Optimism in consequence.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3608
“Become what thou art” applied to all, of course, becomes a vicious maxim; it is to be hoped, however, that we may learn in time that the same action performed by a given number of men, loses its identity precisely that same number of times.—“Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1236
Still am I your love’s heir and heritage, blooming to your memory with many-hued, wild-growing virtues, O ye dearest ones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2365
—The soul fleeing from itself, which overtaketh itself in the widest circuit; the wisest soul, unto which folly speaketh most sweetly:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2730
Well! What of that! Where doth one at present learn better to wait than at courts? And the whole virtue of kings that hath remained unto them—is it not called to-day: ABILITY to wait?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2092
O lonesomeness! My home, lonesomeness! How blessedly and tenderly speaketh thy voice unto me!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 927
Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation—so teacheth you Zarathustra.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1866
This, however, is my blessing: to stand above everything as its own heaven, its round roof, its azure bell and eternal security: and blessed is he who thus blesseth!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3230
—Thou old melancholy devil, out of thy lament soundeth a lurement: thou resemblest those who with their praise of chastity secretly invite to voluptuousness!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 270
Honour to the government, and obedience, and also to the crooked government! So desireth good sleep. How can I help it, if power like to walk on crooked legs?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2661
Out! out! my fishing-hook! In and down, thou bait of my happiness! Drip thy sweetest dew, thou honey of my heart! Bite, my fishing-hook, into the belly of all black affliction!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2822
Therefore did I ascend into these mountains, that I might finally have a festival for myself once more, as becometh an old pope and church-father: for know it, that I am the last pope!—a festival of pious recollections and divine services.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1191
Ah, there is ice around me; my hand burneth with the iciness! Ah, there is thirst in me; it panteth after your thirst!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 598
The friend of the anchorite is always the third one: the third one is the cork which preventeth the conversation of the two sinking into the depth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 343
To succumb—so wisheth your Self; and therefore have ye become despisers of the body. For ye can no longer create beyond yourselves.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 373
There is no salvation for him who thus suffereth from himself, unless it be speedy death.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3556
The only possible way in which the great man can achieve greatness is by means of exceptional freedom—the freedom which assists him in experiencing HIMSELF. Verses 20 to 30 afford an excellent supplement to Nietzsche’s description of the attitude of the noble type towards the slaves in Aphorism 260 of the work “Beyond Good and Evil” (see also Note B.)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 779
To be sure, he who never liveth at the right time, how could he ever die at the right time? Would that he might never be born!—Thus do I advise the superfluous ones.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 262
Ten times must thou reconcile again with thyself; for overcoming is bitterness, and badly sleep the unreconciled.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1229
Why? Wherefore? Whereby? Whither? Where? How? Is it not folly still to live?—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3671
It is well known that they were supposed not only to be eaters of human flesh but also ass-worshippers, and among the Roman graffiti, the most famous is the one found on the Palatino, showing a man worshipping a cross on which is suspended a figure with the head of an ass (see Minucius Felix, “Octavius” IX.; Tacitus, “Historiae” v. 3; Tertullian, “Apologia”, etc.).
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 318
Backward they always gaze toward dark ages: then, indeed, were delusion and faith something different. Raving of the reason was likeness to God, and doubt was sin.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 987
But at last it cometh and awaketh and devoureth and engulfeth whatever hath built tabernacles upon it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1135
“For there the truth is, where the people are! Woe, woe to the seeking ones!”—thus hath it echoed through all time.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2547
O my soul, now have I given thee all, and even my last possession, and all my hands have become empty by thee:—THAT I BADE THEE SING, behold, that was my last thing to give!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3646
He fought for “all who do not want to live, unless they learn again to HOPE—unless THEY learn (from him) the GREAT hope!” Zarathustra’s address to his guests shows clearly enough how he wished to help them: “I DO NOT TREAT MY WARRIORS INDULGENTLY,” he says: “how then could ye be fit for MY warfare?” He rebukes and spurns them, no word of love comes from his lips. Elsewhere he says a man should be a hard bed to his friend, thus alone can he be of use to him.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1680
Then was there once more spoken unto me without voice: “Thou knowest it, Zarathustra, but thou dost not speak it!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 850
Awake and hearken, ye lonesome ones! From the future come winds with stealthy pinions, and to fine ears good tidings are proclaimed.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2981
‘WHERE is—MY home?’ For it do I ask and seek, and have sought, but have not found it. O eternal everywhere, O eternal nowhere, O eternal—in-vain!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2570
Thou art so very weary? I carry thee thither; let just thine arm sink! And art thou thirsty—I should have something; but thy mouth would not like it to drink!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1318
Not yet had he learned laughing and beauty. Gloomy did this hunter return from the forest of knowledge.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1425
For this is the truth: I have departed from the house of the scholars, and the door have I also slammed behind me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 95
The fall of our footsteps ringeth too hollow through their streets. And just as at night, when they are in bed and hear a man abroad long before sunrise, so they ask themselves concerning us: Where goeth the thief?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2633
—And again passed moons and years over Zarathustra’s soul, and he heeded it not; his hair, however, became white. One day when he sat on a stone in front of his cave, and gazed calmly into the distance—one there gazeth out on the sea, and away beyond sinuous abysses,—then went his animals thoughtfully round about him, and at last set themselves in front of him.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2030
Thus spake Zarathustra, and passed by the fool and the great city.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 614
Art thou pure air and solitude and bread and medicine to thy friend? Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend’s emancipator.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1187
Oh, this is the hostility of light to the shining one: unpityingly doth it pursue its course.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3439
—And once more Zarathustra became absorbed in himself, and sat down again on the big stone and meditated. Suddenly he sprang up,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 748
Finally, my brethren, guard against doing wrong to any anchorite. How could an anchorite forget! How could he requite!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1811
Thus am I in the midst of my work, to my children going, and from them returning: for the sake of his children must Zarathustra perfect himself.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 386
And now once more lieth the lead of his guilt upon him, and once more is his weak reason so benumbed, so paralysed, and so dull.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3223
Even thus, Eaglelike, pantherlike, Are the poet’s desires, Are THINE OWN desires ‘neath a thousand guises, Thou fool! Thou poet! Thou who all mankind viewedst— So God, as sheep—: The God TO REND within mankind, As the sheep in mankind, And in rending LAUGHING—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3553
There can be no doubt that the value of healthy innocent voluptuousness, like the value of health itself, must have been greatly discounted by all those who, resenting their inability to partake of this world’s goods, cried like St Paul: “I would that all men were even as I myself.” Now Nietzsche’s philosophy might be called an attempt at giving back to healthy and normal men innocence and a clean conscience in their desires—NOT to applaud the vulgar sensualists who respond to every stimulus and whose passions are out of hand; not to tell the mean, selfish individual, whose selfishness is a pollution (see Aphorism 33, “Twilight of the Idols”), that he is right, nor to assure the weak, the sick, and the crippled, that the thirst of power, which they gratify by exploiting the happier and healthier individuals, is justified;—but to save the clean healthy man from the values of those around him, who look at everything through the mud that is in their own bodies,—to give him, and him alone, a clean conscience in his manhood and the desires of his manhood.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 798
Far too many live, and far too long hang they on their branches. Would that a storm came and shook all this rottenness and worm-eatenness from the tree!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2202
And there will I not reside and abide where every one spitteth and speweth: that is now MY taste,—rather would I live amongst thieves and perjurers. Nobody carrieth gold in his mouth.