Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
3,679 passages indexed from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) — Page 73 of 74
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 266
Shall I covet my neighbour’s maidservant? All that would ill accord with good sleep.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 674
Alas! there are so many great thoughts that do nothing more than the bellows: they inflate, and make emptier than ever.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 76
I would fain bestow and distribute, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2187
And therefore suffereth one little children to come unto one, to forbid them betimes to love themselves—so causeth the spirit of gravity.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 496
And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness. I know you.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1415
For already she cometh, the glowing one,—HER love to the earth cometh! Innocence and creative desire, is all solar love!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 924
Verily, through a hundred souls went I my way, and through a hundred cradles and birth-throes. Many a farewell have I taken; I know the heart-breaking last hours.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1399
Where is innocence? Where there is will to procreation. And he who seeketh to create beyond himself, hath for me the purest will.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3010
Hush—” (and here Zarathustra stretched himself, and felt that he was asleep.)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 349
Better for thee to say: “Ineffable is it, and nameless, that which is pain and sweetness to my soul, and also the hunger of my bowels.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2605
If ever I have drunk a full draught of the foaming spice- and confection-bowl in which all things are well mixed:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 587
Ye love tragedies and all that breaketh the heart? But I am distrustful of your doggish lust.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2427
The sea stormeth: all is in the sea. Well! Cheer up! Ye old seaman-hearts!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 392
Once was doubt evil, and the will to Self. Then the invalid became a heretic or sorcerer; as heretic or sorcerer he suffered, and sought to cause suffering.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 247
My brethren, wherefore is there need of the lion in the spirit? Why sufficeth not the beast of burden, which renounceth and is reverent?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1980
Thus do I show them only the ice and winter of my peaks—and NOT that my mountain windeth all the solar girdles around it!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 274
Well, also, do the poor in spirit please me: they promote sleep. Blessed are they, especially if one always give in to them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1564
Art thou not thyself the wind with shrill whistling, which bursteth open the gates of the fortress of Death?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3662
These paragraphs deal with Nietzsche’s protest against the democratic seriousness (Pobelernst) of modern times. “All good things laugh,” he says, and his final command to the higher men is, “LEARN, I pray you—to laugh.” All that is GOOD, in Nietzsche’s sense, is cheerful. To be able to crack a joke about one’s deepest feelings is the greatest test of their value. The man who does not laugh, like the man who does not make faces, is already a buffoon at heart.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1813
Still are my children verdant in their first spring, standing nigh one another, and shaken in common by the winds, the trees of my garden and of my best soil.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2968
With thee have I wandered about in the remotest, coldest worlds, like a phantom that voluntarily haunteth winter roofs and snows.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 312
The sick and perishing—it was they who despised the body and the earth, and invented the heavenly world, and the redeeming blood-drops; but even those sweet and sad poisons they borrowed from the body and the earth!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1140
And now, ye famous wise ones, I would have you finally throw off entirely the skin of the lion!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2364
—The soul in Being, which plungeth into Becoming; the possessing soul, which SEEKETH to attain desire and longing:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1097
“Vengeance will we use, and insult, against all who are not like us”—thus do the tarantula-hearts pledge themselves.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 328
An instrument of thy body is also thy little sagacity, my brother, which thou callest “spirit”—a little instrument and plaything of thy big sagacity.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2655
Myself, however, and my fate—we do not talk to the Present, neither do we talk to the Never: for talking we have patience and time and more than time. For one day must it yet come, and may not pass by.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2422
O my brethren, when I enjoined you to break up the good, and the tables of the good, then only did I embark man on his high seas.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3147
When thou reachest thy goal, when thou alightest from thy horse: precisely on thy HEIGHT, thou higher man,—then wilt thou stumble!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1597
Will—so is the emancipator and joy-bringer called: thus have I taught you, my friends! But now learn this likewise: the Will itself is still a prisoner.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2176
Thereof could I sing a song—and WILL sing it: though I be alone in an empty house, and must sing it to mine own ears.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 735
The destroyer of morality, the good and just call me: my story is immoral.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 605
In one’s friend one shall have one’s best enemy. Thou shalt be closest unto him with thy heart when thou withstandest him.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2534
O my soul, I understand the smiling of thy melancholy: thine over-abundance itself now stretcheth out longing hands!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1655
In truth, as your wisest did not seem to me so very wise, so found I also human wickedness below the fame of it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1948
O blessed hour of the lightning! O mystery before noontide!—Running fires will I one day make of them, and heralds with flaming tongues:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1973
Many a shrewd one did I find: he veiled his countenance and made his water muddy, that no one might see therethrough and thereunder.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 992
Who created for themselves such caves and penitence-stairs? Was it not those who sought to conceal themselves, and were ashamed under the clear sky?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2044
—Blow amongst those leaves, O Zarathustra, that everything WITHERED may run away from thee the faster!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2609
Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage-ring of rings—the ring of the return?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1103
Their jealousy leadeth them also into thinkers’ paths; and this is the sign of their jealousy—they always go too far: so that their fatigue hath at last to go to sleep on the snow.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3638
These two conflicting halves in the character of the Christ of the Gospels, which no sound psychology can ever reconcile, Nietzsche always kept distinct in his own mind; he could not credit the same man with sentiments sometimes so noble and at other times so vulgar, and in presenting us with this new portrait of the Saviour, purged of all impurities, Nietzsche rendered military honours to a foe, which far exceed in worth all that His most ardent disciples have ever claimed for Him.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2002
Much appointable virtue with scribe-fingers, and hardy sitting-flesh and waiting-flesh, blessed with small breast-stars, and padded, haunchless daughters.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2657
How remote may such “remoteness” be? What doth it concern me? But on that account it is none the less sure unto me—, with both feet stand I secure on this ground;
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3580
The tame moral reading of the face of nature, together with such democratic interpretations of life as those suggested by Herbert Spencer, are signs of a physiological condition which is the reverse of that bounding and irresponsible healthiness in which harder and more tragic values rule.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 311
A new will teach I unto men: to choose that path which man hath followed blindly, and to approve of it—and no longer to slink aside from it, like the sick and perishing!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2398
He who hath grown wise concerning old origins, lo, he will at last seek after the fountains of the future and new origins.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3554
“Do I counsel you to slay your instincts? I counsel to innocence in your instincts.” In verse 7 of the second paragraph (as in verse I of paragraph 19 in “The Old and New Tables”) Nietzsche gives us a reason for his occasional obscurity (see also verses 3 to 7 of “Poets”). As I have already pointed out, his philosophy is quite esoteric. It can serve no purpose with the ordinary, mediocre type of man.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3427
—This had Zarathustra spoken to his heart when the sun arose: then looked he inquiringly aloft, for he heard above him the sharp call of his eagle. “Well!” called he upwards, “thus is it pleasing and proper to me. Mine animals are awake, for I am awake.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3614
At length he can withstand him no longer, and, on the plea that the higher man is on his ground and therefore under his protection, Zarathustra departs in search of him, leaving Schopenhauer—a higher man in Nietzsche’s opinion—in the cave as a guest.