Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 302

Believe me, my brethren! It was the body which despaired of the body—it groped with the fingers of the infatuated spirit at the ultimate walls.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2014

Here, however, did Zarathustra interrupt the foaming fool, and shut his mouth.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 567

They punish thee for all thy virtues. They pardon thee in their inmost hearts only—for thine errors.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3571

These deal with Nietzsche’s principle of the desirability of rearing a select race. The biological and historical grounds for his insistence upon this principle are, of course, manifold. Gobineau in his great work, “L’Inegalite des Races Humaines”, lays strong emphasis upon the evils which arise from promiscuous and inter-social marriages.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1147

Free from the happiness of slaves, redeemed from Deities and adorations, fearless and fear-inspiring, grand and lonesome: so is the will of the conscientious.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3322

—“And thou even,” said Zarathustra to the spiritually conscientious one, “consider, and put thy finger to thy nose! Doth nothing go against thy conscience here? Is thy spirit not too cleanly for this praying and the fumes of those devotees?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1150

And often have they been good servants and worthy of their hire. For thus saith virtue: “If thou must be a servant, seek him unto whom thy service is most useful!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2961

Thus spake Zarathustra, and, laughing with eyes and entrails, he stood still and turned round quickly—and behold, he almost thereby threw his shadow and follower to the ground, so closely had the latter followed at his heels, and so weak was he. For when Zarathustra scrutinised him with his glance he was frightened as by a sudden apparition, so slender, swarthy, hollow and worn-out did this follower appear.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1137

And your heart hath always said to itself: “From the people have I come: from thence came to me also the voice of God.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2464

Among the most alike doth semblance deceive most delightfully: for the smallest gap is most difficult to bridge over.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2136

On what bridge goeth the now to the hereafter? By what constraint doth the high stoop to the low? And what enjoineth even the highest still—to grow upwards?—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2141

Voluptuousness: only to the withered a sweet poison; to the lion-willed, however, the great cordial, and the reverently saved wine of wines.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 636

Through valuation only is there value; and without valuation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, ye creating ones!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 159

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: ye have still chaos in you.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2124

Did my wisdom perhaps speak secretly to it, my laughing, wide-awake day-wisdom, which mocketh at all “infinite worlds”? For it saith: “Where force is, there becometh NUMBER the master: it hath more force.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1253

As a blind one did I once walk in blessed ways: then did ye cast filth on the blind one’s course: and now is he disgusted with the old footpath.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2505

Thou teachest that there is a great year of Becoming, a prodigy of a great year; it must, like a sand-glass, ever turn up anew, that it may anew run down and run out:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1381

Unto my children will I make amends for being the child of my fathers: and unto all the future—for THIS present-day!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 684

Hast thou ever known, my brother, the word “disdain”? And the anguish of thy justice in being just to those that disdain thee?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 593

Verily, there are chaste ones from their very nature; they are gentler of heart, and laugh better and oftener than you.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 807

Free for death, and free in death; a holy Naysayer, when there is no longer time for Yea: thus understandeth he about death and life.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2989

I will run alone, so that it may again become bright around me. Therefore must I still be a long time merrily upon my legs. In the evening, however, there will be—dancing with me!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1679

And I cried in terror at this whispering, and the blood left my face: but I was silent.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 472

“Giving birth is troublesome,”—say others—“why still give birth? One beareth only the unfortunate!” And they also are preachers of death.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2188

And we—we bear loyally what is apportioned unto us, on hard shoulders, over rugged mountains! And when we sweat, then do people say to us: “Yea, life is hard to bear!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2140

Voluptuousness: to free hearts, a thing innocent and free, the garden-happiness of the earth, all the future’s thanks-overflow to the present.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1324

And only when he turneth away from himself will he o’erleap his own shadow—and verily! into HIS sun.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 719

In your love let there be valour! With your love shall ye assail him who inspireth you with fear!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3210

—Which is an adversary to this Zarathustra from the very heart: forgive it for this! Now doth it wish to conjure before you, it hath just ITS hour; in vain do I struggle with this evil spirit.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3265

For with them was there equally good, clear, Oriental air; there was I furthest from cloudy, damp, melancholy Old-Europe!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1446

“Since I have known the body better”—said Zarathustra to one of his disciples—“the spirit hath only been to me symbolically spirit; and all the ‘imperishable’—that is also but a simile.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2925

And whilst he thus spake he kissed with o’erflowing eyes the hands of him with whom he spake, and behaved altogether like one to whom a precious gift and jewel hath fallen unawares from heaven. The kine, however, gazed at it all and wondered.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3622

If one were asked whether, throughout his many changes, there was yet one aim, one direction, and one hope to which he held fast, one would be forced to reply in the affirmative and declare that aim, direction, and hope to have been “the elevation of the type man.” Now, when Nietzsche met Wagner he was actually casting about for an incarnation of his dreams for the German people, and we have only to remember his youth (he was twenty-one when he was introduced to Wagner), his love of Wagner’s music, and the undoubted power of the great musician’s personality, in order to realise how very uncritical his attitude must have been in the first flood of his enthusiasm.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2552

Twice only movedst thou thy rattle with thy little hands—then did my feet swing with dance-fury.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 570

Thy silent pride is always counter to their taste; they rejoice if once thou be humble enough to be frivolous.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2964

A wanderer am I, who have walked long at thy heels; always on the way, but without a goal, also without a home: so that verily, I lack little of being the eternally Wandering Jew, except that I am not eternal and not a Jew.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 873

“O Zarathustra”—said the child unto me—“look at thyself in the mirror!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 439

When Zarathustra had said this, the youth called out with violent gestures: “Yea, Zarathustra, thou speakest the truth. My destruction I longed for, when I desired to be on the height, and thou art the lightning for which I waited! Lo! what have I been since thou hast appeared amongst us? It is mine envy of thee that hath destroyed me!”—Thus spake the youth, and wept bitterly. Zarathustra, however, put his arm about him, and led the youth away with him.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2265

To be true—that CAN few be! And he who can, will not! Least of all, however, can the good be true.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2288

It is my sympathy with all the past that I see it is abandoned,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3659

Here Nietzsche perhaps exaggerates the importance of heredity. As, however, the question is by no means one on which we are all agreed, what he says is not without value.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2091

—When it disgusted thee with all thy waiting and silence, and discouraged thy humble courage: THAT was forsakenness!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1902

I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open; they have become SMALLER, and ever become smaller:—THE REASON THEREOF IS THEIR DOCTRINE OF HAPPINESS AND VIRTUE.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3627

Zarathustra now meets the last pope, and, in a poetical form, we get Nietzsche’s description of the course Judaism and Christianity pursued before they reached their final break-up in Atheism, Agnosticism, and the like. The God of a strong, warlike race—the God of Israel—is a jealous, revengeful God. He is a power that can be pictured and endured only by a hardy and courageous race, a race rich enough to sacrifice and to lose in sacrifice.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1301

He certainly did not hit the truth who shot at it the formula: ‘Will to existence’: that will—doth not exist!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1240

To kill ME, did they strangle you, ye singing birds of my hopes! Yea, at you, ye dearest ones, did malice ever shoot its arrows—to hit my heart!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 180

When, however, he was but a step behind, there happened the frightful thing which made every mouth mute and every eye fixed—he uttered a yell like a devil, and jumped over the other who was in his way. The latter, however, when he thus saw his rival triumph, lost at the same time his head and his footing on the rope; he threw his pole away, and shot downwards faster than it, like an eddy of arms and legs, into the depth.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 21

“How could we still be content with THE MAN OF THE PRESENT DAY after such outlooks, and with such a craving in our conscience and consciousness? Sad enough; but it is unavoidable that we should look on the worthiest aims and hopes of the man of the present-day with ill-concealed amusement, and perhaps should no longer look at them.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1267

In thee still liveth also the unrealisedness of my youth; and as life and youth sittest thou here hopeful on the yellow ruins of graves.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2558

For thee, whose coldness inflameth, whose hatred misleadeth, whose flight enchaineth, whose mockery—pleadeth:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Install Darobodo