Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1193

‘Tis night: now doth my longing break forth in me as a fountain,—for speech do I long.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2257

And verily, it is a noble dictum which saith: “What life promiseth US, that promise will WE keep—to life!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1045

And thus do almost all think that they participate in virtue; and at least every one claimeth to be an authority on “good” and “evil.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3406

Pain is also a joy, curse is also a blessing, night is also a sun,—go away! or ye will learn that a sage is also a fool.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3120

“Man is evil”—so said to me for consolation, all the wisest ones. Ah, if only it be still true to-day! For the evil is man’s best force.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 69

In his teaching alone do we meet with truthfulness upheld as the highest virtue—i.e.: the reverse of the COWARDICE of the ‘idealist’ who flees from reality. Zarathustra had more courage in his body than any other thinker before or after him. To tell the truth and TO AIM STRAIGHT: that is the first Persian virtue. Am I understood?...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 886

And let the stream of my love sweep into unfrequented channels! How should a stream not finally find its way to the sea!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1312

And let everything break up which—can break up by our truths! Many a house is still to be built!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 849

A thousand paths are there which have never yet been trodden; a thousand salubrities and hidden islands of life. Unexhausted and undiscovered is still man and man’s world.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2871

Thus spake Zarathustra and was about to go; but the nondescript grasped at a corner of his garment and began anew to gurgle and seek for words. “Stay,” said he at last—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 757

Not only onward shalt thou propagate thyself, but upward! For that purpose may the garden of marriage help thee!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2293

Therefore, O my brethren, a NEW NOBILITY is needed, which shall be the adversary of all populace and potentate rule, and shall inscribe anew the word “noble” on new tables.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3583

We meet with several puzzles here. Zarathustra calls himself the advocate of the circle (the Eternal Recurrence of all things), and he calls this doctrine his abysmal thought.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 390

Look at that poor body! What it suffered and craved, the poor soul interpreted to itself—it interpreted it as murderous desire, and eagerness for the happiness of the knife.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 309

Always more uprightly learneth it to speak, the ego; and the more it learneth, the more doth it find titles and honours for the body and the earth.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 72

Thou great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3240

—Ye long for the worst and dangerousest life, which frighteneth ME most,—for the life of wild beasts, for forests, caves, steep mountains and labyrinthine gorges.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2341

There are on the earth many good inventions, some useful, some pleasant: for their sake is the earth to be loved.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3632

In the presence of the ugliest man Nietzsche blushes,—he blushes for his race; his own particular kind of altruism—the altruism that might have prevented the existence of this man—strikes him with all its force. He will have the world otherwise. He will have a world where one need not blush for one’s fellows—hence his appeal to us to love only our children’s land, the land undiscovered in the remotest sea.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1233

Oh, ye sights and scenes of my youth! Oh, all ye gleams of love, ye divine fleeting gleams! How could ye perish so soon for me! I think of you to-day as my dead ones.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3378

—There boometh the clock-bell, there thrilleth still the heart, there burroweth still the wood-worm, the heart-worm. Ah! Ah! THE WORLD IS DEEP!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 78

Like thee must I GO DOWN, as men say, to whom I shall descend.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2021

They call thee mine ape, thou foaming fool: but I call thee my grunting-pig,—by thy grunting, thou spoilest even my praise of folly.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2238

—The Zarathustra word of the great noontide, and whatever else I have hung up over men like purple evening-afterglows.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3253

—Ere night cometh will he again learn to love and laud me; he cannot live long without committing such follies.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 156

It is time for man to fix his goal. It is time for man to plant the germ of his highest hope.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 173

“We have discovered happiness,”—say the last men, and blink thereby.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1561

Fearfully was I terrified thereby: it prostrated me. And I cried with horror as I ne’er cried before.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3392

God’s woe is deeper, thou strange world! Grasp at God’s woe, not at me! What am I! A drunken sweet lyre,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2951

—“One excepted, whom I hold still dearer,” answered the voluntary beggar. “Thou thyself art good, O Zarathustra, and better even than a cow!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2929

“Then learnedst thou,” interrupted Zarathustra, “how much harder it is to give properly than to take properly, and that bestowing well is an ART—the last, subtlest master-art of kindness.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1623

Something higher than all reconciliation must the Will will which is the Will to Power—: but how doth that take place? Who hath taught it also to will backwards?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 966

And if a friend doeth thee wrong, then say: “I forgive thee what thou hast done unto me; that thou hast done it unto THYSELF, however—how could I forgive that!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1361

Rather would I be a day-labourer in the nether-world, and among the shades of the bygone!—Fatter and fuller than ye, are forsooth the nether-worldlings!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3044

And those into whose ears thou hast at any time dripped thy song and thy honey: all the hidden ones, the lone-dwellers and the twain-dwellers, have simultaneously said to their hearts:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 414

There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1078

My heart on which my summer burneth, my short, hot, melancholy, over-happy summer: how my summer heart longeth for thy coolness!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3362

—As mysteriously, as frightfully, and as cordially as that midnight clock-bell speaketh it to me, which hath experienced more than one man:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1222

Perhaps she is wicked and false, and altogether a woman; but when she speaketh ill of herself, just then doth she seduce most.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2182

One must learn to love oneself—thus do I teach—with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 792

And whoever wanteth to have fame, must take leave of honour betimes, and practise the difficult art of—going at the right time.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1241

And they hit it! Because ye were always my dearest, my possession and my possessedness: ON THAT ACCOUNT had ye to die young, and far too early!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3

All Zarathustra’s views, as also his personality, were early conceptions of my brother’s mind. Whoever reads his posthumously published writings for the years 1869–82 with care, will constantly meet with passages suggestive of Zarathustra’s thoughts and doctrines. For instance, the ideal of the Superman is put forth quite clearly in all his writings during the years 1873–75; and in “We Philologists”, the following remarkable observations occur:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 487

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 56

The involuntariness of the figures and similes is the most remarkable thing; one loses all perception of what constitutes the figure and what constitutes the simile; everything seems to present itself as the readiest, the correctest and the simplest means of expression. It actually seems, to use one of Zarathustra’s own phrases, as if all things came unto one, and would fain be similes: ‘Here do all things come caressingly to thy talk and flatter thee, for they want to ride upon thy back.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1660

Out of your wild cats must tigers have evolved, and out of your poison-toads, crocodiles: for the good hunter shall have a good hunt!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1294

And where there is sacrifice and service and love-glances, there also is the will to be master. By by-ways doth the weaker then slink into the fortress, and into the heart of the mightier one—and there stealeth power.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1851

Art thou not the light of my fire? Hast thou not the sister-soul of mine insight?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 375

It is not enough that ye should reconcile with him whom ye slay. Let your sorrow be love to the Superman: thus will ye justify your own survival!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1962

Also do I like to tickle him with a wax-taper, that he may finally let the heavens emerge from ashy-grey twilight.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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