Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2778
That kind of thing belongeth to mine art. Thee thyself, I wanted to put to the proof when I gave this performance. And verily, thou hast well detected me!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1560
And a thousand caricatures of children, angels, owls, fools, and child-sized butterflies laughed and mocked, and roared at me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 818
It is your thirst to become sacrifices and gifts yourselves: and therefore have ye the thirst to accumulate all riches in your soul.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1848
Oh, how could I fail to divine all the modesty of thy soul! BEFORE the sun didst thou come unto me—the lonesomest one.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1017
Ye want to be paid besides, ye virtuous ones! Ye want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your to-day?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1058
The holy water have they poisoned with their lustfulness; and when they called their filthy dreams delight, then poisoned they also the words.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1014
But beauty’s voice speaketh gently: it appealeth only to the most awakened souls.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1433
Clever are they—they have dexterous fingers: what doth MY simplicity pretend to beside their multiplicity! All threading and knitting and weaving do their fingers understand: thus do they make the hose of the spirit!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1844
Up to thy height to toss myself—that is MY depth! In thy purity to hide myself—that is MINE innocence!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3386
My skin is too pure for thy hands. Leave me alone, thou dull, doltish, stupid day! Is not the midnight brighter?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1928
Well! This is my sermon for THEIR ears: I am Zarathustra the godless, who saith: “Who is more godless than I, that I may enjoy his teaching?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1799
WHO is the shepherd into whose throat the serpent thus crawled? WHO is the man into whose throat all the heaviest and blackest will thus crawl?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 285
His wisdom is to keep awake in order to sleep well. And verily, if life had no sense, and had I to choose nonsense, this would be the desirablest nonsense for me also.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1245
Slew ye not my youth’s visions and dearest marvels! My playmates took ye from me, the blessed spirits! To their memory do I deposit this wreath and this curse.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 462
There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1313
Calm is the bottom of my sea: who would guess that it hideth droll monsters!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3020
It was late in the afternoon only when Zarathustra, after long useless searching and strolling about, again came home to his cave. When, however, he stood over against it, not more than twenty paces therefrom, the thing happened which he now least of all expected: he heard anew the great CRY OF DISTRESS. And extraordinary! this time the cry came out of his own cave. It was a long, manifold, peculiar cry, and Zarathustra plainly distinguished that it was composed of many voices: although heard at a distance it might sound like the cry out of a single mouth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1273
That is your entire will, ye wisest ones, as a Will to Power; and even when ye speak of good and evil, and of estimates of value.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 786
But to the fighter equally hateful as to the victor, is your grinning death which stealeth nigh like a thief,—and yet cometh as master.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 777
Thirst in the creating one, arrow and longing for the Superman: tell me, my brother, is this thy will to marriage?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 994
They called God that which opposed and afflicted them: and verily, there was much hero-spirit in their worship!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1630
But why doth Zarathustra speak otherwise unto his pupils—than unto himself?”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2036
Did perhaps their hearts despond, because lonesomeness had swallowed me like a whale? Did their ear perhaps hearken yearningly-long for me IN VAIN, and for my trumpet-notes and herald-calls?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 57
On every simile dost thou here ride to every truth. Here fly open unto thee all being’s words and word-cabinets; here all being wanteth to become words, here all becoming wanteth to learn of thee how to talk.’ This is MY experience of inspiration. I do not doubt but that one would have to go back thousands of years in order to find some one who could say to me: It is mine also!—”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1809
O afternoon of my life! What did I not surrender that I might have one thing: this living plantation of my thoughts, and this dawn of my highest hope!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1323
Should he become weary of his sublimeness, this sublime one, then only will his beauty begin—and then only will I taste him and find him savoury.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3199
—Which is hostile to thistle-heads and puzzle-heads, and to all withered leaves and weeds:—praised be this wild, good, free spirit of the storm, which danceth upon fens and afflictions, as upon meadows!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1903
For they are moderate also in virtue,—because they want comfort. With comfort, however, moderate virtue only is compatible.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1458
We also know too little, and are bad learners: so we are obliged to lie.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2694
The king on the left, however, shrugged his shoulders and answered: “That may perhaps be a goat-herd. Or an anchorite who hath lived too long among rocks and trees. For no society at all spoileth also good manners.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2948
Behold, thither leadeth the way to my cave: be to-night its guest. And talk to mine animals of the happiness of animals,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3018
—When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2502
For thine animals know it well, O Zarathustra, who thou art and must become: behold, THOU ART THE TEACHER OF THE ETERNAL RETURN,—that is now THY fate!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 393
But this will not enter your ears; it hurteth your good people, ye tell me. But what doth it matter to me about your good people!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1864
I, however, am a blesser and a Yea-sayer, if thou be but around me, thou pure, thou luminous heaven! Thou abyss of light!—into all abysses do I then carry my beneficent Yea-saying.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2417
—They crucify him who writeth new values on new tables, they sacrifice UNTO THEMSELVES the future—they crucify the whole human future!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1001
Of defects did the spirit of those Saviours consist; but into every defect had they put their illusion, their stop-gap, which they called God.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1702
And I considered a long while, and trembled. At last, however, did I say what I had said at first. “I will not.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2704
From the rabble have we gone out of the way, from all those bawlers and scribe-blowflies, from the trader-stench, the ambition-fidgeting, the bad breath—: fie, to live among the rabble;
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 758
A higher body shalt thou create, a first movement, a spontaneously rolling wheel—a creating one shalt thou create.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 518
Ah! even in your ears, ye great souls, it whispereth its gloomy lies! Ah! it findeth out the rich hearts which willingly lavish themselves!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3437
—Unto your distress did he want to seduce and tempt me: ‘O Zarathustra,’ said he to me, ‘I come to seduce thee to thy last sin.’
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 597
I and me are always too earnestly in conversation: how could it be endured, if there were not a friend?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 823
With the eye of the thief it looketh upon all that is lustrous; with the craving of hunger it measureth him who hath abundance; and ever doth it prowl round the tables of bestowers.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1310
Thus doth the greatest evil pertain to the greatest good: that, however, is the creating good.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3618
Where I want to know, however, there want I also to be honest—namely, severe, rigorous, restricted, cruel, and inexorable.” Zarathustra greatly respecting this man, invites him too to the cave, and then vanishes in answer to another cry for help.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3119
He who seeth the abyss, but with eagle’s eyes,—he who with eagle’s talons GRASPETH the abyss: he hath courage.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 949
Therefore do I wash the hand that hath helped the sufferer; therefore do I wipe also my soul.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 947
Since humanity came into being, man hath enjoyed himself too little: that alone, my brethren, is our original sin!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2403
Who can command, who must obey—THAT IS THERE ATTEMPTED! Ah, with what long seeking and solving and failing and learning and re-attempting!