Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 481

By our best enemies we do not want to be spared, nor by those either whom we love from the very heart. So let me tell you the truth!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1601

Willing emancipateth: what doth Willing itself devise in order to get free from its tribulation and mock at its prison?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2978

A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3442

Well! The lion hath come, my children are nigh, Zarathustra hath grown ripe, mine hour hath come:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 951

Great obligations do not make grateful, but revengeful; and when a small kindness is not forgotten, it becometh a gnawing worm.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1145

But his thirst doth not persuade him to become like those comfortable ones: for where there are oases, there are also idols.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3445

I have had some opportunities of studying the conditions under which Nietzsche is read in Germany, France, and England, and I have found that, in each of these countries, students of his philosophy, as if actuated by precisely similar motives and desires, and misled by the same mistaken tactics on the part of most publishers, all proceed in the same happy-go-lucky style when “taking him up.” They have had it said to them that he wrote without any system, and they very naturally conclude that it does not matter in the least whether they begin with his first, third, or last book, provided they can obtain a few vague ideas as to what his leading and most sensational principles were.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2163

Whether they be servile before Gods and divine spurnings, or before men and stupid human opinions: at ALL kinds of slaves doth it spit, this blessed selfishness!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1031

Ah! their crying also hath reached your ears, ye virtuous ones: “What I am NOT, that, that is God to me, and virtue!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 846

Let your spirit and your virtue be devoted to the sense of the earth, my brethren: let the value of everything be determined anew by you! Therefore shall ye be fighters! Therefore shall ye be creators!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1042

And again there are those who regard it as virtue to say: “Virtue is necessary”; but after all they believe only that policemen are necessary.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 530

Madmen they all seem to me, and clambering apes, and too eager. Badly smelleth their idol to me, the cold monster: badly they all smell to me, these idolaters.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 536

There, where the state ceaseth—there only commenceth the man who is not superfluous: there commenceth the song of the necessary ones, the single and irreplaceable melody.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3370

—The hour in which I frost and freeze, which asketh and asketh and asketh: “Who hath sufficient courage for it?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 647

Ye crowd around your neighbour, and have fine words for it. But I say unto you: your neighbour-love is your bad love of yourselves.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 578

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3177

What hath hitherto been the greatest sin here on earth? Was it not the word of him who said: “Woe unto them that laugh now!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3389

O world, thou wantest ME? Am I worldly for thee? Am I spiritual for thee? Am I divine for thee? But day and world, ye are too coarse,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2662

Look out, look out, mine eye! Oh, how many seas round about me, what dawning human futures! And above me—what rosy red stillness! What unclouded silence!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2142

Voluptuousness: the great symbolic happiness of a higher happiness and highest hope. For to many is marriage promised, and more than marriage,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 427

The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep—into the evil.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1165

Have ye ne’er seen a sail crossing the sea, rounded and inflated, and trembling with the violence of the wind?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 770

Another sought a handmaid with the virtues of an angel. But all at once he became the handmaid of a woman, and now would he need also to become an angel.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2113

He who liveth amongst the good—pity teacheth him to lie. Pity maketh stifling air for all free souls. For the stupidity of the good is unfathomable.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1764

For courage is the best slayer,—courage which ATTACKETH: for in every attack there is sound of triumph.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 12

He assumes that Christianity, as a product of the resentment of the botched and the weak, has put in ban all that is beautiful, strong, proud, and powerful, in fact all the qualities resulting from strength, and that, in consequence, all forces which tend to promote or elevate life have been seriously undermined.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2876

Hath not all success hitherto been with the well-persecuted ones? And he who persecuteth well learneth readily to be OBSEQUENT—when once he is—put behind! But it is their PITY—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1927

Those teachers of submission! Wherever there is aught puny, or sickly, or scabby, there do they creep like lice; and only my disgust preventeth me from cracking them.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3191

Zarathustra the soothsayer, Zarathustra the sooth-laugher, no impatient one, no absolute one, one who loveth leaps and side-leaps; I myself have put on this crown!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1482

They have learned from the sea also its vanity: is not the sea the peacock of peacocks?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3674

At length, in the middle of their feast, Zarathustra bursts in upon them and rebukes them soundly. But he does not do so long; in the Ass-Festival, it suddenly occurs to him, that he is concerned with a ceremony that may not be without its purpose, as something foolish but necessary—a recreation for wise men. He is therefore highly pleased that the higher men have all blossomed forth; they therefore require new festivals,—“A little valiant nonsense, some divine service and ass-festival, some old joyful Zarathustra fool, some blusterer to blow their souls bright.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 340

Even in your folly and despising ye each serve your Self, ye despisers of the body. I tell you, your very Self wanteth to die, and turneth away from life.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3167

Shy, ashamed, awkward, like the tiger whose spring hath failed—thus, ye higher men, have I often seen you slink aside. A CAST which ye made had failed.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3252

Well! Let us be good again, and of good cheer! And although Zarathustra looketh with evil eye—just see him! he disliketh me—:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2580

Thereupon did Life look thoughtfully behind and around, and said softly: “O Zarathustra, thou art not faithful enough to me!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1451

It is already too much for me even to retain mine opinions; and many a bird flieth away.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2591

Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity and for the marriage-ring of rings—the ring of the return?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 63

of which contains this note: “Only for my friends, not for the public”) is written in a particularly personal spirit, and those few to whom he presented a copy of it, he pledged to the strictest secrecy concerning its contents. He often thought of making this fourth part public also, but doubted whether he would ever be able to do so without considerably altering certain portions of it.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1088

Verily, a strong wind is Zarathustra to all low places; and this counsel counselleth he to his enemies, and to whatever spitteth and speweth: “Take care not to spit AGAINST the wind!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2330

To discern: that is DELIGHT to the lion-willed! But he who hath become weary, is himself merely “willed”; with him play all the waves.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1760

Condemned of thyself, and to thine own stoning: O Zarathustra, far indeed threwest thou thy stone—but upon THYSELF will it recoil!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2272

But even the simpletons contradict him. “What?” say the simpletons, “all in flux? Planks and railings are still OVER the stream!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 252

But tell me, my brethren, what the child can do, which even the lion could not do? Why hath the preying lion still to become a child?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2117

The grave-diggers dig for themselves diseases. Under old rubbish rest bad vapours. One should not stir up the marsh. One should live on mountains.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2755

And it is also a world! Forgive it, however, that my pride here findeth expression, for here I have not mine equal. Therefore said I: ‘here am I at home.’

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2756

How long have I investigated this one thing, the brain of the leech, so that here the slippery truth might no longer slip from me! Here is MY domain!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 479

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 634

Values did man only assign to things in order to maintain himself—he created only the significance of things, a human significance! Therefore, calleth he himself “man,” that is, the valuator.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1699

O Zarathustra, thou shalt go as a shadow of that which is to come: thus wilt thou command, and in commanding go foremost.”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1374

And woe unto me if I could not laugh at your marvelling, and had to swallow all that is repugnant in your platters!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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