Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3016
“O heaven above me,” said he sighing, and sat upright, “thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 105
What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3024
—In mine own cave sitteth he, the higher man! But why do I wonder! Have not I myself allured him to me by honey-offerings and artful lure-calls of my happiness?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1874
O heaven above me! thou pure, thou lofty heaven! This is now thy purity unto me, that there is no eternal reason-spider and reason-cobweb:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1243
But this word will I say unto mine enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what ye have done unto me!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2180
Heavy unto him are earth and life, and so WILLETH the spirit of gravity! But he who would become light, and be a bird, must love himself:—thus do _I_ teach.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 47
When, however, we returned to Switzerland towards the end of June, and he found himself once more in the familiar and exhilarating air of the mountains, all his joyous creative powers revived, and in a note to me announcing the dispatch of some manuscript, he wrote as follows: “I have engaged a place here for three months: forsooth, I am the greatest fool to allow my courage to be sapped from me by the climate of Italy. Now and again I am troubled by the thought: WHAT NEXT?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 308
And this most upright existence, the ego—it speaketh of the body, and still implieth the body, even when it museth and raveth and fluttereth with broken wings.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 617
In woman’s love there is injustice and blindness to all she doth not love. And even in woman’s conscious love, there is still always surprise and lightning and night, along with the light.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3094
And verily, it is the strangest thing in a wise man, if over and above, he be still sensible, and not an ass.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1572
But as thou awokest from them and camest to thyself, so shall they awaken from themselves—and come unto thee!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2062
“For a father he careth not sufficiently for his children: human fathers do this better!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3524
This seems to me to give an account of the great struggle which must have taken place in Nietzsche’s soul before he finally resolved to make known the more esoteric portions of his teaching. Our deepest feelings crave silence. There is a certain self-respect in the serious man which makes him hold his profoundest feelings sacred. Before they are uttered they are full of the modesty of a virgin, and often the oldest sage will blush like a girl when this virginity is violated by an indiscretion which forces him to reveal his deepest thoughts.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3404
Ye higher men, what think ye? Am I a soothsayer? Or a dreamer? Or a drunkard? Or a dream-reader? Or a midnight-bell?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 336
The Self saith unto the ego: “Feel pain!” And thereupon it suffereth, and thinketh how it may put an end thereto—and for that very purpose it IS MEANT to think.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 835
When ye are willers of one will, and when that change of every need is needful to you: there is the origin of your virtue.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1941
Ah, that ye understood my word: “Do ever what ye will—but first be such as CAN WILL.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1155
And the spirit’s happiness is this: to be anointed and consecrated with tears as a sacrificial victim,—did ye know that before?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2544
—Towards the golden marvel, the spontaneous bark, and its master: he, however, is the vintager who waiteth with the diamond vintage-knife,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1398
Verily, not as creators, as procreators, or as jubilators do ye love the earth!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1438
They also know how to play with false dice; and so eagerly did I find them playing, that they perspired thereby.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2338
None of you want to enter into the death-boat! How should ye then be WORLD-WEARY ones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3409
—All anew, all eternal, all enlinked, enlaced and enamoured, Oh, then did ye LOVE the world,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1547
All life had I renounced, so I dreamed. Night-watchman and grave-guardian had I become, aloft, in the lone mountain-fortress of Death.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3403
Woe saith: “Break, bleed, thou heart! Wander, thou leg! Thou wing, fly! Onward! upward! thou pain!” Well! Cheer up! O mine old heart: WOE SAITH: “HENCE! GO!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3022
All this did Zarathustra behold with great astonishment; then however he scrutinised each individual guest with courteous curiosity, read their souls and wondered anew. In the meantime the assembled ones had risen from their seats, and waited with reverence for Zarathustra to speak. Zarathustra however spake thus:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3286
And it is ABOUT TO end. Already cometh the evening: over the sea rideth it hither, the good rider! How it bobbeth, the blessed one, the home-returning one, in its purple saddles!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1373
Yea, ye are laughable unto me, ye present-day men! And especially when ye marvel at yourselves!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2319
O my brethren, there is much wisdom in the fact that much filth is in the world!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2473
—And how that monster crept into my throat and choked me! But I bit off its head and spat it away from me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3418
Have ye now learned my song? Have ye divined what it would say? Well! Cheer up! Ye higher men, sing now my roundelay!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 454
“Spirit is also voluptuousness,”—said they. Then broke the wings of their spirit; and now it creepeth about, and defileth where it gnaweth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3193
There are also heavy animals in a state of happiness, there are club-footed ones from the beginning. Curiously do they exert themselves, like an elephant which endeavoureth to stand upon its head.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3113
THAT asketh and asketh and never tireth: “How is man to maintain himself best, longest, most pleasantly?” Thereby—are they the masters of to-day.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1385
For he is covetous and jealous, the monk in the moon; covetous of the earth, and all the joys of lovers.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2779
But thou thyself—hast given me no small proof of thyself: thou art HARD, thou wise Zarathustra! Hard strikest thou with thy ‘truths,’ thy cudgel forceth from me—THIS truth!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2037
—Ah! Ever are there but few of those whose hearts have persistent courage and exuberance; and in such remaineth also the spirit patient. The rest, however, are COWARDLY.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 712
Two different things wanteth the true man: danger and diversion. Therefore wanteth he woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2346
But more COURAGE is needed to make an end than to make a new verse: that do all physicians and poets know well.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2571
—Oh, that cursed, nimble, supple serpent and lurking-witch! Where art thou gone? But in my face do I feel through thy hand, two spots and red blotches itch!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 783
His death, dieth the consummating one triumphantly, surrounded by hoping and promising ones.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 396
I am a railing alongside the torrent; whoever is able to grasp me may grasp me! Your crutch, however, I am not.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2945
—Also what requireth a long time, a day’s-work and a mouth’s-work for gentle idlers and sluggards.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 582
Do I counsel you to slay your instincts? I counsel you to innocence in your instincts.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3678
All that is terrible and great in nature, the higher men are not yet prepared for; for they retreat horror-stricken into the cave when the lion springs at them; but Zarathustra makes not a move towards them. He was tempted to them on the previous day, he says, but “That hath had its time! My suffering and my fellow-suffering,—what matter about them! Do I then strive after HAPPINESS? I strive after my work! Well! the lion hath come, my children are nigh. Zarathustra hath grown ripe.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 646
But pray tell me, my brethren, if the goal of humanity be still lacking, is there not also still lacking—humanity itself?—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1759
O Zarathustra, thou stone of wisdom, thou sling-stone, thou star-destroyer! Thyself threwest thou so high,—but every thrown stone—must fall!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 278
Thus pondering, and cradled by forty thoughts, it overtaketh me all at once—sleep, the unsummoned, the lord of the virtues.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 760
Let this be the significance and the truth of thy marriage. But that which the many-too-many call marriage, those superfluous ones—ah, what shall I call it?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2890
And ‘truth’ is at present what the preacher spake who himself sprang from them, that singular saint and advocate of the petty people, who testified of himself: ‘I—am the truth.’