Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
3,679 passages indexed from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) — Page 70 of 74
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2258
One should not wish to enjoy where one doth not contribute to the enjoyment. And one should not WISH to enjoy!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 539
Admirably do forest and rock know how to be silent with thee. Resemble again the tree which thou lovest, the broad-branched one—silently and attentively it o’erhangeth the sea.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1692
And thus did they speak unto me: Thou forgottest the path before, now dost thou also forget how to walk!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2118
With blessed nostrils do I again breathe mountain-freedom. Freed at last is my nose from the smell of all human hubbub!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1328
As a white ox would I like to see him, which, snorting and lowing, walketh before the ploughshare: and his lowing should also laud all that is earthly!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 70
The overcoming of morality through itself—through truthfulness, the overcoming of the moralist through his opposite—THROUGH ME—: that is what the name Zarathustra means in my mouth.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1506
‘Freedom’ ye all roar most eagerly: but I have unlearned the belief in ‘great events,’ when there is much roaring and smoke about them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 397
Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1065
But I asked once, and suffocated almost with my question: What? is the rabble also NECESSARY for life?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2444
—A sun itself, and an inexorable sun-will, ready for annihilation in victory!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 246
All values have already been created, and all created values—do I represent. Verily, there shall be no ‘I will’ any more.” Thus speaketh the dragon.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1279
It is not the river that is your danger and the end of your good and evil, ye wisest ones: but that Will itself, the Will to Power—the unexhausted, procreating life-will.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 608
Thou canst not adorn thyself fine enough for thy friend; for thou shalt be unto him an arrow and a longing for the Superman.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2937
—At the culprits of riches, with cold eyes and rank thoughts, who pick up profit out of all kinds of rubbish—at this rabble that stinketh to heaven,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3049
And that we despairing ones have now come into thy cave, and already no longer despair:—it is but a prognostic and a presage that better ones are on the way to thee,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2157
With its words of good and bad doth such self-enjoyment shelter itself as with sacred groves; with the names of its happiness doth it banish from itself everything contemptible.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3012
Now have ye slept your fill; for how long a time? A half-eternity! Well then, up now, mine old heart! For how long after such a sleep mayest thou—remain awake?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2499
—“Do not talk further,” answered his animals once more; “rather, thou convalescent, prepare for thyself first a lyre, a new lyre!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1578
“Behold, Zarathustra! Even the people learn from thee, and acquire faith in thy teaching: but for them to believe fully in thee, one thing is still needful—thou must first of all convince us cripples! Here hast thou now a fine selection, and verily, an opportunity with more than one forelock! The blind canst thou heal, and make the lame run; and from him who hath too much behind, couldst thou well, also, take away a little;—that, I think, would be the right method to make the cripples believe in Zarathustra!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2109
One unlearneth men when one liveth amongst them: there is too much foreground in all men—what can far-seeing, far-longing eyes do THERE!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2155
—From the powerful soul, to which the high body appertaineth, the handsome, triumphing, refreshing body, around which everything becometh a mirror:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1274
Ye would still create a world before which ye can bow the knee: such is your ultimate hope and ecstasy.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 978
Even among them there are heroes; many of them have suffered too much—: so they want to make others suffer.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2112
Especially did I find those who call themselves “the good,” the most poisonous flies; they sting in all innocence, they lie in all innocence; how COULD they—be just towards me!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2818
I was seeking the pious man, a saint and an anchorite, who, alone in his forest, had not yet heard of what all the world knoweth at present.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1878
The world is deep:—and deeper than e’er the day could read. Not everything may be uttered in presence of day. But day cometh: so let us part!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 344
And therefore are ye now angry with life and with the earth. And unconscious envy is in the sidelong look of your contempt.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3446
Now, it is clear that the book with the most mysterious, startling, or suggestive title, will always stand the best chance of being purchased by those who have no other criteria to guide them in their choice than the aspect of a title-page; and this explains why “Thus Spake Zarathustra” is almost always the first and often the only one of Nietzsche’s books that falls into the hands of the uninitiated.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3521
At a time when individuality is supposed to be shown most tellingly by putting boots on one’s hands and gloves on one’s feet, it is somewhat refreshing to come across a true individualist who feels the chasm between himself and others so deeply, that he must perforce adapt himself to them outwardly, at least, in all respects, so that the inner difference should be overlooked.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3487
And what is the fundamental doctrine which has given rise to so much bitterness and aversion?—Merely this: that the sexes are at bottom ANTAGONISTIC—that is to say, as different as blue is from yellow, and that the best possible means of rearing anything approaching a desirable race is to preserve and to foster this profound hostility. What Nietzsche strives to combat and to overthrow is the modern democratic tendency which is slowly labouring to level all things—even the sexes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3002
Take care! Hot noontide sleepeth on the fields. Do not sing! Hush! The world is perfect.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 484
And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1343
Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 630
“To speak truth, and be skilful with bow and arrow”—so seemed it alike pleasing and hard to the people from whom cometh my name—the name which is alike pleasing and hard to me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3150
Unlearn, I pray you, this “for,” ye creating ones: your very virtue wisheth you to have naught to do with “for” and “on account of” and “because.” Against these false little words shall ye stop your ears.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3515
In it we find Nietzsche face to face with the creature he most sincerely loathes—the spirit of revolution, and we obtain fresh hints concerning his hatred of the anarchist and rebel. “‘Freedom’ ye all roar most eagerly,” he says to the fire-dog, “but I have unlearned the belief in ‘Great Events’ when there is much roaring and smoke about them. Not around the inventors of new noise, but around the inventors of new values, doth the world revolve; INAUDIBLY it revolveth.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3164
He hath founded for himself a penance-house and refuge-house: much good may it do! But I do not believe in it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2308
Children might thus speak: they SHUN the fire because it hath burnt them! There is much childishness in the old books of wisdom.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 808
That your dying may not be a reproach to man and the earth, my friends: that do I solicit from the honey of your soul.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2301
Nor even that a Spirit called Holy, led your forefathers into promised lands, which I do not praise: for where the worst of all trees grew—the cross,—in that land there is nothing to praise!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1986
This is the wise waggish-will and good-will of my soul, that it CONCEALETH NOT its winters and glacial storms; it concealeth not its chilblains either.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3444
Thus spake Zarathustra and left his cave, glowing and strong, like a morning sun coming out of gloomy mountains.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3201
Ye higher men, the worst thing in you is that ye have none of you learned to dance as ye ought to dance—to dance beyond yourselves! What doth it matter that ye have failed!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1188
Unfair to the shining one in its innermost heart, cold to the suns:—thus travelleth every sun.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2034
Verily, many of them once lifted their legs like the dancer; to them winked the laughter of my wisdom:—then did they bethink themselves. Just now have I seen them bent down—to creep to the cross.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3637
Now Nietzsche disagreed entirely with Renan’s view, that Christ was “le grand maitre en ironie”; in Aphorism 31 of “The Antichrist”, he says that he (Nietzsche) always purged his picture of the Humble Nazarene of all those bitter and spiteful outbursts which, in view of the struggle the first Christians went through, may very well have been added to the original character by Apologists and Sectarians who, at that time, could ill afford to consider nice psychological points, seeing that what they needed, above all, was a wrangling and abusive deity.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 943
If I must be pitiful, I dislike to be called so; and if I be so, it is preferably at a distance.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 217
I am not to be a herdsman, I am not to be a grave-digger. Not any more will I discourse unto the people; for the last time have I spoken unto the dead.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3535
This requires scarcely any comment. It is a satire on modern man and his belittling virtues. In verses 23 and 24 of the second part of the discourse we are reminded of Nietzsche’s powerful indictment of the great of to-day, in the Antichrist (Aphorism 43):—“At present nobody has any longer the courage for separate rights, for rights of domination, for a feeling of reverence for himself and his equals,—FOR PATHOS OF DISTANCE....
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2200
Deep yellow and hot red—so wanteth MY taste—it mixeth blood with all colours. He, however, who whitewasheth his house, betrayeth unto me a whitewashed soul.