3,679 passages indexed from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) — Page 74 of 74
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1339
To stand with relaxed muscles and with unharnessed will: that is the hardest for all of you, ye sublime ones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3391
—Mine unhappiness, my happiness is deep, thou strange day, but yet am I no God, no God’s-hell: DEEP IS ITS WOE.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 376
“Enemy” shall ye say but not “villain,” “invalid” shall ye say but not “wretch,” “fool” shall ye say but not “sinner.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3372
—The hour approacheth: O man, thou higher man, take heed! this talk is for fine ears, for thine ears—WHAT SAITH DEEP MIDNIGHT’S VOICE INDEED?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1352
I laughed and laughed, while my foot still trembled, and my heart as well. “Here forsooth, is the home of all the paintpots,”—said I.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3658
“I am a railing alongside the torrent; whoever is able to grasp me, may grasp me! Your crutch, however, I am not.” These two paragraphs are an exhortation to higher men to become independent.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1462
And as if there were a special secret access to knowledge, which CHOKETH UP for those who learn anything, so do we believe in the people and in their “wisdom.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 120
The hour when ye say: “What good is my virtue! As yet it hath not made me passionate. How weary I am of my good and my bad! It is all poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1750
To you the enigma-intoxicated, the twilight-enjoyers, whose souls are allured by flutes to every treacherous gulf:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3402
Joy, however, doth not want heirs, it doth not want children,—joy wanteth itself, it wanteth eternity, it wanteth recurrence, it wanteth everything eternally-like-itself.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 752
Thou art young, and desirest child and marriage. But I ask thee: Art thou a man ENTITLED to desire a child?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2565
This is a dance over stock and stone: I am the hunter,—wilt thou be my hound, or my chamois anon?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1984
—If I did not myself commiserate their PITY, the pity of those enviers and injurers!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3494
Nietzsche tells us here, in a poetical form, how deeply grieved he was by the manifold misinterpretations and misunderstandings which were becoming rife concerning his publications. He does not recognise himself in the mirror of public opinion, and recoils terrified from the distorted reflection of his features.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2047
It is however a shame to pray! Not for all, but for thee, and me, and whoever hath his conscience in his head. For THEE it is a shame to pray!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3145
If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves CARRIED aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people’s backs and heads!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 276
But I think of what I have done and thought during the day. Thus ruminating, patient as a cow, I ask myself: What were thy ten overcomings?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2370
A prelude am I to better players, O my brethren! An example! DO according to mine example!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3668
Zarathustra and the spiritually conscientious one join issue at the end on the question of the proper place of “fear” in man’s history, and Nietzsche avails himself of the opportunity in order to restate his views concerning the relation of courage to humanity. It is precisely because courage has played the most important part in our development that he would not see it vanish from among our virtues to-day. “...courage seemeth to me the entire primitive history of man.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 5
“The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? The question is one which ought to be studied.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2555
Away from thee did I spring, and from thy snaky tresses: then stoodst thou there half-turned, and in thine eye caresses.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3381
—Ripe like the golden autumn and the afternoon, like mine anchorite heart—now sayest thou: The world itself hath become ripe, the grape turneth brown,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 304
And then it sought to get through the ultimate walls with its head—and not with its head only—into “the other world.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1907
Some of them WILL, but most of them are WILLED. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 314
Beyond the sphere of their body and this earth they now fancied themselves transported, these ungrateful ones. But to what did they owe the convulsion and rapture of their transport? To their body and this earth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 843
A hundred times hitherto hath spirit as well as virtue attempted and erred. Yea, an attempt hath man been. Alas, much ignorance and error hath become embodied in us!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1974
But precisely unto him came the shrewder distrusters and nut-crackers: precisely from him did they fish his best-concealed fish!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1238
Yea, made for faithfulness, like me, and for fond eternities, must I now name you by your faithlessness, ye divine glances and fleeting gleams: no other name have I yet learnt.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2579
If thy Wisdom should one day run away from thee, ah! then would also my love run away from thee quickly.”—