Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 894
Too great hath been the tension of my cloud: ‘twixt laughters of lightnings will I cast hail-showers into the depths.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2829
Thus spake Zarathustra, and penetrated with his glances the thoughts and arrear-thoughts of the old pope. At last the latter began:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1918
Shrewd indeed are they, their virtues have shrewd fingers. But they lack fists: their fingers do not know how to creep behind fists.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1258
And once did I want to dance as I had never yet danced: beyond all heavens did I want to dance. Then did ye seduce my favourite minstrel.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1659
For that the Superman may not lack his dragon, the superdragon that is worthy of him, there must still much warm sun glow on moist virgin forests!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2500
For behold, O Zarathustra! For thy new lays there are needed new lyres.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2659
Here laugh, laugh, my hearty, healthy wickedness! From high mountains cast down thy glittering scorn-laughter! Allure for me with thy glittering the finest human fish!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3172
What wonder even that ye have failed and only half-succeeded, ye half-shattered ones! Doth not—man’s FUTURE strive and struggle in you?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3175
And verily, how much hath already succeeded! How rich is this earth in small, good, perfect things, in well-constituted things!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2375
For the worthier foe, O my brethren, shall ye reserve yourselves: therefore must ye pass by many a one,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3440
“FELLOW-SUFFERING! FELLOW-SUFFERING WITH THE HIGHER MEN!” he cried out, and his countenance changed into brass. “Well! THAT—hath had its time!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 555
Flee into thy solitude! Thou hast lived too closely to the small and the pitiable. Flee from their invisible vengeance! Towards thee they have nothing but vengeance.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1079
Past, the lingering distress of my spring! Past, the wickedness of my snowflakes in June! Summer have I become entirely, and summer-noontide!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2311
But to eat and drink well, my brethren, is verily no vain art! Break up, break up for me the tables of the never-joyous ones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 859
Ye say, ye believe in Zarathustra? But of what account is Zarathustra! Ye are my believers: but of what account are all believers!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2606
If ever my hand hath mingled the furthest with the nearest, fire with spirit, joy with sorrow, and the harshest with the kindest:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 732
“Give me, woman, thy little truth!” said I. And thus spake the old woman:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3085
Thus will we have a good repast in a little while. But whoever wish to eat with us must also give a hand to the work, even the kings. For with Zarathustra even a king may be a cook.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 642
Loving ones, was it always, and creating ones, that created good and bad. Fire of love gloweth in the names of all the virtues, and fire of wrath.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3589
Still, there remains a hope that Darwin and Nietzsche may some day become reconciled by a new description of the processes by which varieties occur. The appearance of varieties among animals and of “sporting plants” in the vegetable kingdom, is still shrouded in mystery, and the question whether this is not precisely the ground on which Darwin and Nietzsche will meet, is an interesting one.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3330
Thou seemest to me transformed, thine eyes glow, the mantle of the sublime covereth thine ugliness: WHAT didst thou do?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 579
And just look at these men: their eye saith it—they know nothing better on earth than to lie with a woman.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2393
The badly paired found I ever the most revengeful: they make every one suffer for it that they no longer run singly.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1391
To despise the earthly hath your spirit been persuaded, but not your bowels: these, however, are the strongest in you!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1808
O afternoon of my life! Once did my happiness also descend to the valley that it might seek a lodging: then did it find those open hospitable souls.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 881
Wounded am I by my happiness: all sufferers shall be physicians unto me!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 568
Because thou art gentle and of upright character, thou sayest: “Blameless are they for their small existence.” But their circumscribed souls think: “Blamable is all great existence.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2332
TO THEM soundeth it pleasant to have preached in their ears: “Nothing is worth while! Ye shall not will!” That, however, is a sermon for slavery.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3037
And lo! now is it all over with our cries of distress. Now are our minds and hearts open and enraptured. Little is lacking for our spirits to become wanton.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1489
Yea, changed have I seen the poets, and their glance turned towards themselves.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 130
A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 833
When ye are exalted above praise and blame, and your will would command all things, as a loving one’s will: there is the origin of your virtue.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1658
How many things are now called the worst wickedness, which are only twelve feet broad and three months long! Some day, however, will greater dragons come into the world.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2884
With difficulty did I get out of the crowd of the pitiful,—that I might find the only one who at present teacheth that ‘pity is obtrusive’— thyself, O Zarathustra!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1647
Therefore am I forbearing to the vain, because they are the physicians of my melancholy, and keep me attached to man as to a drama.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2304
Your CHILDREN’S LAND shall ye love: let this love be your new nobility,—the undiscovered in the remotest seas! For it do I bid your sails search and search!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1061
And many a one who hath turned away from life, hath only turned away from the rabble: he hated to share with them fountain, flame, and fruit.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3171
Be of good cheer; what doth it matter? How much is still possible! Learn to laugh at yourselves, as ye ought to laugh!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2931
For the hour hath come, thou knowest it forsooth, for the great, evil, long, slow mob-and-slave-insurrection: it extendeth and extendeth!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1115
And neither shall they become so! What would be my love to the Superman, if I spake otherwise?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2766
“Halt!” said then Zarathustra to his heart, “he there must surely be the higher man, from him came that dreadful cry of distress,—I will see if I can help him.” When, however, he ran to the spot where the man lay on the ground, he found a trembling old man, with fixed eyes; and in spite of all Zarathustra’s efforts to lift him and set him again on his feet, it was all in vain.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2842
At last, however, he became old and soft and mellow and pitiful, more like a grandfather than a father, but most like a tottering old grandmother.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3298
“What happeneth? What are they about?” he asked himself, and stole up to the entrance, that he might be able unobserved to see his guests. But wonder upon wonder! what was he then obliged to behold with his own eyes!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2535
Thy fulness looketh forth over raging seas, and seeketh and waiteth: the longing of over-fulness looketh forth from the smiling heaven of thine eyes!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2159
It despiseth also all bitter-sweet wisdom: for verily, there is also wisdom that bloometh in the dark, a night-shade wisdom, which ever sigheth: “All is vain!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3139
What the populace once learned to believe without reasons, who could— refute it to them by means of reasons?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1865
A blesser have I become and a Yea-sayer: and therefore strove I long and was a striver, that I might one day get my hands free for blessing.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1314
Unmoved is my depth: but it sparkleth with swimming enigmas and laughters.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1923
They wonder why I came not to revile venery and vice; and verily, I came not to warn against pickpockets either!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1334
As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealousy; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.