Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1388

Every honest one’s step speaketh; the cat however, stealeth along over the ground. Lo! cat-like doth the moon come along, and dishonestly.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2011

Spit on the city of compressed souls and slender breasts, of pointed eyes and sticky fingers—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2614

The boundless roareth around me, far away sparkle for me space and time,—well! cheer up! old heart!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1442

Thus did they deafen the sound of my tread: and least have I hitherto been heard by the most learned.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2859

Who, however, could take THY melancholy off thy shoulders? For that I am too weak. Long, verily, should we have to wait until some one re-awoke thy God for thee.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2517

O my soul, I have taught thee to say “to-day” as “once on a time” and “formerly,” and to dance thy measure over every Here and There and Yonder.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3068

—Nay! Nay! Three times Nay! For OTHERS do I wait here in these mountains, and will not lift my foot from thence without them;

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2446

One morning, not long after his return to his cave, Zarathustra sprang up from his couch like a madman, crying with a frightful voice, and acting as if some one still lay on the couch who did not wish to rise. Zarathustra’s voice also resounded in such a manner that his animals came to him frightened, and out of all the neighbouring caves and lurking-places all the creatures slipped away—flying, fluttering, creeping or leaping, according to their variety of foot or wing. Zarathustra, however, spake these words:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1293

It is the surrender of the greatest to run risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1970

My best-loved wickedness and art is it, that my silence hath learned not to betray itself by silence.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1393

“That would be the highest thing for me”—so saith your lying spirit unto itself—“to gaze upon life without desire, and not like the dog, with hanging-out tongue:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2168

But to all those cometh now the day, the change, the sword of judgment, THE GREAT NOONTIDE: then shall many things be revealed!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 607

He who maketh no secret of himself shocketh: so much reason have ye to fear nakedness! Aye, if ye were Gods, ye could then be ashamed of clothing!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3560

“And verily, it is no commandment for to-day and to-morrow to LEARN to love oneself. Rather is it of all arts the finest, subtlest, last, and patientest.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2792

—“Who art thou at all!” cried here the old magician with defiant voice, “who dareth to speak thus unto ME, the greatest man now living?”—and a green flash shot from his eye at Zarathustra. But immediately after he changed, and said sadly:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2518

O my soul, I delivered thee from all by-places, I brushed down from thee dust and spiders and twilight.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3288

Thus spake Zarathustra. And again came the cries and laughter of the higher men out of the cave: then began he anew:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1461

And even of those things are we desirous, which old women tell one another in the evening. This do we call the eternally feminine in us.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2816

“Whoever thou art, thou traveller,” said he, “help a strayed one, a seeker, an old man, who may here easily come to grief!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1417

At the sea would she suck, and drink its depths to her height: now riseth the desire of the sea with its thousand breasts.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 985

On an isle they once thought they had landed, when the sea tossed them about; but behold, it was a slumbering monster!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1012

All-too-similar are they still to each other. Verily, even the greatest found I—all-too-human!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2391

Your marriage-arranging: see that it be not a bad ARRANGING! Ye have arranged too hastily: so there FOLLOWETH therefrom—marriage-breaking!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3420

O man! Take heed! What saith deep midnight’s voice indeed? “I slept my sleep—, “From deepest dream I’ve woke, and plead:— “The world is deep, “And deeper than the day could read. “Deep is its woe—, “Joy—deeper still than grief can be: “Woe saith: Hence! Go! “But joys all want eternity—, “—Want deep, profound eternity!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2692

Ere Zarathustra had been an hour on his way in the mountains and forests, he saw all at once a strange procession. Right on the path which he was about to descend came two kings walking, bedecked with crowns and purple girdles, and variegated like flamingoes: they drove before them a laden ass. “What do these kings want in my domain?” said Zarathustra in astonishment to his heart, and hid himself hastily behind a thicket. When however the kings approached to him, he said half-aloud, like one speaking only to himself: “Strange! Strange! How doth this harmonise? Two kings do I see—and only one ass!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 988

Oh, just look at those tabernacles which those priests have built themselves! Churches, they call their sweet-smelling caves!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2773

Away! There fled he surely, My final, only comrade, My greatest foe, Mine unfamiliar— My hangman-God!...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 727

Man’s soul, however, is deep, its current gusheth in subterranean caverns: woman surmiseth its force, but comprehendeth it not.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 616

Far too long hath there been a slave and a tyrant concealed in woman. On that account woman is not yet capable of friendship: she knoweth only love.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1073

What hath happened unto me? How have I freed myself from loathing? Who hath rejuvenated mine eye? How have I flown to the height where no rabble any longer sit at the wells?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3599

By depriving a man of his wickedness—more particularly nowadays— therefore, one may unwittingly be doing violence to the greatest in him. It may be an outrage against his wholeness, just as the lopping-off of a leg would be. Fortunately, the natural so-called “wickedness” of higher men has in a certain measure been able to resist this lopping process which successive slave-moralities have practised; but signs are not wanting which show that the noblest wickedness is fast vanishing from society—the wickedness of courage and determination—and that Nietzsche had good reasons for crying: “Ah, that (man’s) baddest is so very small! Ah, that his best is so very small. What is good? To be brave is good! It is the good war which halloweth every cause!” (see also par. 5, “Higher Man”).

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3525

This is perhaps the most important of all the four parts. If it contained only “The Vision and the Enigma” and “The Old and New Tables” I should still be of this opinion; for in the former of these discourses we meet with what Nietzsche regarded as the crowning doctrine of his philosophy and in “The Old and New Tables” we have a valuable epitome of practically all his leading principles.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1348

And when I looked around me, lo! there time was my sole contemporary.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 710

Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution—it is called pregnancy.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2748

“I am THE SPIRITUALLY CONSCIENTIOUS ONE,” answered he who was asked, “and in matters of the spirit it is difficult for any one to take it more rigorously, more restrictedly, and more severely than I, except him from whom I learnt it, Zarathustra himself.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1120

And because it requireth elevation, therefore doth it require steps, and variance of steps and climbers! To rise striveth life, and in rising to surpass itself.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 269

Peace with God and thy neighbour: so desireth good sleep. And peace also with thy neighbour’s devil! Otherwise it will haunt thee in the night.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2797

Thou bad old magician, THAT is the best and the honestest thing I honour in thee, that thou hast become weary of thyself, and hast expressed it: ‘I am not great.’

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2828

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who saith: ‘Who is ungodlier than I, that I may enjoy his teaching?’”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2866

I entice thee back; here is smooth ice! See to it, see to it, that thy pride doth not here break its legs!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1011

Never yet hath there been a Superman. Naked have I seen both of them, the greatest man and the smallest man:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1827

My past burst its tomb, many pains buried alive woke up—: fully slept had they merely, concealed in corpse-clothes.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 259

Modest is even the thief in presence of sleep: he always stealeth softly through the night. Immodest, however, is the night-watchman; immodestly he carrieth his horn.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 456

But by my love and hope I conjure thee: cast not away the hero in thy soul! Maintain holy thy highest hope!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 901

On the soft sward of your hearts, my friends!—on your love, would she fain couch her dearest one!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 691

And be on thy guard, also, against the assaults of thy love! Too readily doth the recluse reach his hand to any one who meeteth him.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 799

Would that there came preachers of SPEEDY death! Those would be the appropriate storms and agitators of the trees of life! But I hear only slow death preached, and patience with all that is “earthly.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 512

But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 169

No shepherd, and one herd! Every one wanteth the same; every one is equal: he who hath other sentiments goeth voluntarily into the madhouse.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3239

—More horror, more danger, more earthquake. Ye long (it almost seemeth so to me—forgive my presumption, ye higher men)—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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