Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2300
(For ABILITY-to-stand is a merit in courtiers; and all courtiers believe that unto blessedness after death pertaineth—PERMISSION-to-sit!)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3478
Nietzsche, the supposed anarchist, here plainly disclaims all relationship whatever to anarchy, for he shows us that only by bearing the burdens of the existing law and submitting to it patiently, as the camel submits to being laden, does the free spirit acquire that ascendancy over tradition which enables him to meet and master the dragon “Thou shalt,”—the dragon with the values of a thousand years glittering on its scales.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3623
Again, when the friendship ripened, we cannot well imagine Nietzsche, the younger man, being anything less than intoxicated by his senior’s attention and love, and we are therefore not surprised to find him pressing Wagner forward as the great Reformer and Saviour of mankind.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1803
My longing for that laughter gnaweth at me: oh, how can I still endure to live! And how could I endure to die at present!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 816
Uncommon is the highest virtue, and unprofiting, beaming is it, and soft of lustre: a bestowing virtue is the highest virtue.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 248
To create new values—that, even the lion cannot yet accomplish: but to create itself freedom for new creating—that can the might of the lion do.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3009
—What? Hath not the world just now become perfect? Round and ripe? Oh, for the golden round ring—whither doth it fly? Let me run after it! Quick!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1603
That time doth not run backward—that is its animosity: “That which was”: so is the stone which it cannot roll called.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 227
“Would that I were wiser! Would that I were wise from the very heart, like my serpent!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1225
Ah, and now hast thou again opened thine eyes, O beloved Life! And into the unfathomable have I again seemed to sink.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 480
Or “life eternal”; it is all the same to me—if only they pass away quickly!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 819
Insatiably striveth your soul for treasures and jewels, because your virtue is insatiable in desiring to bestow.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2623
If ever I have spread out a tranquil heaven above me, and have flown into mine own heaven with mine own pinions:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2028
For such pillars of fire must precede the great noontide. But this hath its time and its own fate.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1459
And which of us poets hath not adulterated his wine? Many a poisonous hotchpotch hath evolved in our cellars: many an indescribable thing hath there been done.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 724
The happiness of man is, “I will.” The happiness of woman is, “He will.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 473
“Pity is necessary,”—so saith a third party. “Take what I have! Take what I am! So much less doth life bind me!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2738
“But whatever art thou about!” called out Zarathustra in alarm, for he saw a deal of blood streaming over the naked arm,—“what hath hurt thee? Hath an evil beast bit thee, thou unfortunate one?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 119
The hour when ye say: “What good is my reason! Doth it long for knowledge as the lion for his food? It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1366
Perambulating refutations are ye, of belief itself, and a dislocation of all thought. UNTRUSTWORTHY ONES: thus do _I_ call you, ye real ones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1739
But it breatheth warmly—I feel it. And I feel also that it dreameth. It tosseth about dreamily on hard pillows.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3127
—Thus only groweth man aloft to the height where the lightning striketh and shattereth him: high enough for the lightning!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3304
What hidden wisdom it is to wear long ears, and only to say Yea and never Nay! Hath he not created the world in his own image, namely, as stupid as possible?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2596
—For even churches and Gods’-graves do I love, if only heaven looketh through their ruined roofs with pure eyes; gladly do I sit like grass and red poppies on ruined churches—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2494
“Do not speak further, thou convalescent!”—so answered his animals, “but go out where the world waiteth for thee like a garden.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 560
Blood they would have from thee in all innocence; blood their bloodless souls crave for—and they sting, therefore, in all innocence.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2358
A parasite: that is a reptile, a creeping, cringing reptile, that trieth to fatten on your infirm and sore places.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1469
Are not they light enough for those chairs!—all these Gods and Supermen?—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2941
“Thou doest violence to thyself, thou Preacher-on-the-Mount, when thou usest such severe words. For such severity neither thy mouth nor thine eye have been given thee.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2196
He, however, hath discovered himself who saith: This is MY good and evil: therewith hath he silenced the mole and the dwarf, who say: “Good for all, evil for all.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2840
Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2542
—Until over calm longing seas the bark glideth, the golden marvel, around the gold of which all good, bad, and marvellous things frisk:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3107
The Superman, I have at heart; THAT is the first and only thing to me—and NOT man: not the neighbour, not the poorest, not the sorriest, not the best.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 689
And be on thy guard against the good and just! They would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue—they hate the lonesome ones.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1443
All mankind’s faults and weaknesses did they put betwixt themselves and me:—they call it “false ceiling” in their houses.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1053
But the same wave shall bring them new playthings, and spread before them new speckled shells!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1286
An attempt and a risk seemed all commanding unto me; and whenever it commandeth, the living thing risketh itself thereby.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2782
“THE PENITENT IN SPIRIT,” said the old man, “it was him—I represented; thou thyself once devisedst this expression—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 108
The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman SHALL BE the meaning of the earth!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 485
I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! “Uniform” one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1670
What hath happened unto me, my friends? Ye see me troubled, driven forth, unwillingly obedient, ready to go—alas, to go away from YOU!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 911
And what ye have called the world shall but be created by you: your reason, your likeness, your will, your love, shall it itself become! And verily, for your bliss, ye discerning ones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 547
A truth which only glideth into fine ears, he calleth falsehood and trumpery. Verily, he believeth only in Gods that make a great noise in the world!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 801
Verily, too early died that Hebrew whom the preachers of slow death honour: and to many hath it proved a calamity that he died too early.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3606
In the fourteenth verse of this discourse Nietzsche defines the solemn duty he imposed upon himself: “Become what thou art.” Surely the criticism which has been directed against this maxim must all fall to the ground when it is remembered, once and for all, that Nietzsche’s teaching was never intended to be other than an esoteric one.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 111
Once blasphemy against God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and therewith also those blasphemers. To blaspheme the earth is now the dreadfulest sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1536
Arid have we all become; and fire falling upon us, then do we turn dust like ashes:—yea, the fire itself have we made aweary.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 453
Then lived they shamelessly in temporary pleasures, and beyond the day had hardly an aim.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 690
Be on thy guard, also, against holy simplicity! All is unholy to it that is not simple; fain, likewise, would it play with the fire—of the fagot and stake.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2223
And I bade them upset their old academic chairs, and wherever that old infatuation had sat; I bade them laugh at their great moralists, their saints, their poets, and their Saviours.