Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1889

They bite at me, because I say unto them that for small people, small virtues are necessary—and because it is hard for me to understand that small people are NECESSARY!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2966

On every surface have I already sat, like tired dust have I fallen asleep on mirrors and window-panes: everything taketh from me, nothing giveth; I become thin—I am almost equal to a shadow.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2896

Thou thyself, however,—warn thyself also against THY pity! For many are on their way to thee, many suffering, doubting, despairing, drowning, freezing ones—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1380

Thus do I love only my CHILDREN’S LAND, the undiscovered in the remotest sea: for it do I bid my sails search and search.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3146

Thou hast mounted, however, on horseback? Thou now ridest briskly up to thy goal? Well, my friend! But thy lame foot is also with thee on horseback!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2298

Verily, not that ye have served a prince—of what account are princes now!—nor that ye have become a bulwark to that which standeth, that it may stand more firmly.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3365

—Now doth it speak, now is it heard, now doth it steal into overwakeful, nocturnal souls: ah! ah! how the midnight sigheth! how it laugheth in its dream!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 874

But when I looked into the mirror, I shrieked, and my heart throbbed: for not myself did I see therein, but a devil’s grimace and derision.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1631

The declivity, where the gaze shooteth DOWNWARDS, and the hand graspeth UPWARDS. There doth the heart become giddy through its double will.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3291

New hopes are in their arms and legs, their hearts expand. They find new words, soon will their spirits breathe wantonness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1129

That I may NOT turn dizzy, however, bind me fast, my friends, to this pillar! Rather will I be a pillar-saint than a whirl of vengeance!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 983

But I suffer and have suffered with them: prisoners are they unto me, and stigmatised ones. He whom they call Saviour put them in fetters:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3091

—Joyous in fight and feast, no sulker, no John o’ Dreams, ready for the hardest task as for the feast, healthy and hale.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2532

O my soul, I have given thee everything, and all my hands have become empty by thee:—and now! Now sayest thou to me, smiling and full of melancholy: “Which of us oweth thanks?—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 884

Too long have I longed and looked into the distance. Too long hath solitude possessed me: thus have I unlearned to keep silence.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1855

And all my wandering and mountain-climbing: a necessity was it merely, and a makeshift of the unhandy one:—to FLY only, wanteth mine entire will, to fly into THEE!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2651

And verily, I am well disposed to mine eternal fate, because it doth not hound and hurry me, but leaveth me time for merriment and mischief; so that I have to-day ascended this high mountain to catch fish.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2334

Even through walls bloweth my free breath, and in into prisons and imprisoned spirits!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3008

—What happeneth to me? Hush! It stingeth me—alas—to the heart? To the heart! Oh, break up, break up, my heart, after such happiness, after such a sting!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 295

Thus, once on a time, did I also cast my fancy beyond man, like all backworldsmen. Beyond man, forsooth?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 359

Once hadst thou wild dogs in thy cellar: but they changed at last into birds and charming songstresses.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2255

Thus wisheth the type of noble souls: they desire to have nothing GRATUITOUSLY, least of all, life.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1437

I saw them always prepare their poison with precaution; and always did they put glass gloves on their fingers in doing so.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3301

He carrieth our burdens, he hath taken upon him the form of a servant, he is patient of heart and never saith Nay; and he who loveth his God chastiseth him.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 658

The one goeth to his neighbour because he seeketh himself, and the other because he would fain lose himself. Your bad love to yourselves maketh solitude a prison to you.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1897

“We have not yet time for Zarathustra”—so they object; but what matter about a time that “hath no time” for Zarathustra?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2407

—As those who say and feel in their hearts: “We already know what is good and just, we possess it also; woe to those who still seek thereafter!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 641

Verily, the crafty ego, the loveless one, that seeketh its advantage in the advantage of many—it is not the origin of the herd, but its ruin.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 670

Lo, that pain itself did the same conscience produce; and the last gleam of that conscience still gloweth on thine affliction.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3182

Go out of the way of all such absolute ones! They are a poor sickly type, a populace-type: they look at this life with ill-will, they have an evil eye for this earth.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2076

Thus talked Zarathustra in the city he loved, which is surnamed “The Pied Cow.” For from here he had but two days to travel to reach once more his cave and his animals; his soul, however, rejoiced unceasingly on account of the nighness of his return home.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 609

Sawest thou ever thy friend asleep—to know how he looketh? What is usually the countenance of thy friend? It is thine own countenance, in a coarse and imperfect mirror.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2737

Lo! am I then a dog?”—And thereupon the sitting one got up, and pulled his naked arm out of the swamp. For at first he had lain outstretched on the ground, hidden and indiscernible, like those who lie in wait for swamp-game.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1124

How divinely do vault and arch here contrast in the struggle: how with light and shade they strive against each other, the divinely striving ones.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1595

And how could I endure to be a man, if man were not also the composer, and riddle-reader, and redeemer of chance!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3613

Schopenhauer appeals to Nietzsche’s deepest and strongest sentiment—his sympathy for higher men. “Why dost thou conceal thyself?” he cries. “It is THE HIGHER MAN that calleth for thee!” Zarathustra is almost overcome by the Soothsayer’s pleading, as he had been once already in the past, but he resists him step by step.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3366

—Hearest thou not how it mysteriously, frightfully, and cordially speaketh unto THEE, the old deep, deep midnight?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3001

O happiness! O happiness! Wilt thou perhaps sing, O my soul? Thou liest in the grass. But this is the secret, solemn hour, when no shepherd playeth his pipe.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2921

And verily, although a man should gain the whole world, and yet not learn one thing, ruminating, what would it profit him! He would not be rid of his affliction,

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 380

Evermore did he now see himself as the doer of one deed. Madness, I call this: the exception reversed itself to the rule in him.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2242

The past of man to redeem, and every “It was” to transform, until the Will saith: “But so did I will it! So shall I will it—”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2593

If ever my wrath hath burst graves, shifted landmarks, or rolled old shattered tables into precipitous depths:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3570

Life is ESSENTIALLY appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of its own forms, incorporation and at least, putting it mildest, exploitation.” Adaptation is merely a secondary activity, a mere re-activity (see Note on Chapter LVII.).

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3260

—The bad game of our howling and crying for help! Abide with us, O Zarathustra! Here there is much concealed misery that wisheth to speak, much evening, much cloud, much damp air!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3539

The last verse introduces the expression, “THE GREAT NOONTIDE!” In the poem to be found at the end of “Beyond Good and Evil”, we meet with the expression again, and we shall find it occurring time and again in Nietzsche’s works. It will be found fully elucidated in the fifth part of “The Twilight of the Idols”; but for those who cannot refer to this book, it were well to point out that Nietzsche called the present period—our period—the noon of man’s history. Dawn is behind us.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3585

But if one ask oneself what the conditions to such an attitude are, one will realise immediately how utterly different Nietzsche was from his ideal. The man who insatiably cries da capo to himself and to the whole of his mise-en-scene, must be in a position to desire every incident in his life to be repeated, not once, but again and again eternally.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1405

But MY words are poor, contemptible, stammering words: gladly do I pick up what falleth from the table at your repasts.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1151

The spirit and virtue of thy master shall advance by thou being his servant: thus wilt thou thyself advance with his spirit and virtue!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1468

Verily, ever are we drawn aloft—that is, to the realm of the clouds: on these do we set our gaudy puppets, and then call them Gods and Supermen:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1161

In all respects, however, ye make too familiar with the spirit; and out of wisdom have ye often made an almshouse and a hospital for bad poets.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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