Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 165
Turning ill and being distrustful, they consider sinful: they walk warily. He is a fool who still stumbleth over stones or men!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2952
“Away, away with thee! thou evil flatterer!” cried Zarathustra mischievously, “why dost thou spoil me with such praise and flattery-honey?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2371
And him whom ye do not teach to fly, teach I pray you—TO FALL FASTER!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1296
To be sure, ye call it will to procreation, or impulse towards a goal, towards the higher, remoter, more manifold: but all that is one and the same secret.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1322
Taste: that is weight at the same time, and scales and weigher; and alas for every living thing that would live without dispute about weight and scales and weigher!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1508
Not around the inventors of new noise, but around the inventors of new values, doth the world revolve; INAUDIBLY it revolveth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3036
To behold this, merely, gladly would we ascend higher mountains than this. For as eager beholders have we come; we wanted to see what brighteneth dim eyes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1025
And like the star that goeth out, so is every work of your virtue: ever is its light on its way and travelling—and when will it cease to be on its way?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 791
Many a one, also, waxeth too old for his truths and triumphs; a toothless mouth hath no longer the right to every truth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3344
And once more began Zarathustra to speak. “O my new friends,” said he,— “ye strange ones, ye higher men, how well do ye now please me,—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2189
But man himself only is hard to bear! The reason thereof is that he carrieth too many extraneous things on his shoulders. Like the camel kneeleth he down, and letteth himself be well laden.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2108
Disguised did I sit amongst them, ready to misjudge MYSELF that I might endure THEM, and willingly saying to myself: “Thou fool, thou dost not know men!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1840
Away with thee, thou blissful hour! Rather harbour there—with my children! Hasten! and bless them before eventide with MY happiness!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1877
Or is it the shame of being two of us that maketh thee blush!—Dost thou bid me go and be silent, because now—DAY cometh?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 421
Now am I light, now do I fly; now do I see myself under myself. Now there danceth a God in me.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3346
—A little valiant nonsense, some divine service and ass-festival, some old joyful Zarathustra fool, some blusterer to blow your souls bright.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2094
For all is open with thee and clear; and even the hours run here on lighter feet. For in the dark, time weigheth heavier upon one than in the light.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 143
I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1697
And I answered: “I lack the lion’s voice for all commanding.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2016
Why didst thou live so long by the swamp, that thou thyself hadst to become a frog and a toad?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2621
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 3143
Such persons vaunt about not lying: but inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2557
I fear thee near, I love thee far; thy flight allureth me, thy seeking secureth me:—I suffer, but for thee, what would I not gladly bear!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 789
And out of reverence for the goal and the heir, he will hang up no more withered wreaths in the sanctuary of life.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 795
In some ageth the heart first, and in others the spirit. And some are hoary in youth, but the late young keep long young.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1741
Ah, I am sad along with thee, thou dusky monster, and angry with myself even for thy sake.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 26
In a small mountain resort (Recoaro) near Vicenza, where I spent the spring of 1881, I and my friend and Maestro, Peter Gast—also one who had been born again—discovered that the phoenix music that hovered over us, wore lighter and brighter plumes than it had done theretofore.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 995
And they knew not how to love their God otherwise than by nailing men to the cross!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1453
But what did Zarathustra once say unto thee? That the poets lie too much?—But Zarathustra also is a poet.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 660
I love not your festivals either: too many actors found I there, and even the spectators often behaved like actors.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3558
Already in the last of the “Thoughts out of Season” Nietzsche speaks as follows about modern men: “...these modern creatures wish rather to be hunted down, wounded and torn to shreds, than to live alone with themselves in solitary calm. Alone with oneself!—this thought terrifies the modern soul; it is his one anxiety, his one ghastly fear” (English Edition, page 141).
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2697
—Though it call itself ‘nobility.’ But there all is false and foul, above all the blood—thanks to old evil diseases and worse curers.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 199
And thereupon Zarathustra knocked at the door of the house. An old man appeared, who carried a light, and asked: “Who cometh unto me and my bad sleep?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1806
On an afternoon did I find my friends for the first time; on an afternoon, also, did I find them a second time:—at the hour when all light becometh stiller.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 234
Is it not this: To humiliate oneself in order to mortify one’s pride? To exhibit one’s folly in order to mock at one’s wisdom?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2714
There is no sorer misfortune in all human destiny, than when the mighty of the earth are not also the first men. Then everything becometh false and distorted and monstrous.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1519
At last he became calmer and his panting subsided; as soon, however, as he was quiet, I said laughingly:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3573
The last two verses of par. 12 were discussed in the Notes on Chapters XXXVI. and LIII.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3118
Cold souls, mules, the blind and the drunken, I do not call stout-hearted. He hath heart who knoweth fear, but VANQUISHETH it; who seeth the abyss, but with PRIDE.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 184
The man looked up distrustfully. “If thou speakest the truth,” said he, “I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which hath been taught to dance by blows and scanty fare.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2295
O my brethren, I consecrate you and point you to a new nobility: ye shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future;—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1507
And believe me, friend Hullabaloo! The greatest events—are not our noisiest, but our stillest hours.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2402
And whoever calleth out: “Lo, here is a well for many thirsty ones, one heart for many longing ones, one will for many instruments”:—around him collecteth a PEOPLE, that is to say, many attempting ones.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3592
Adaptation, according to him, is merely a secondary activity, a mere re-activity, and he is therefore quite opposed to Spencer’s definition: “Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.” Again in the motive force behind animal and plant life, Nietzsche disagrees with Darwin.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1590
And ye also asked yourselves often: “Who is Zarathustra to us? What shall he be called by us?” And like me, did ye give yourselves questions for answers.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1208
“Such is the language of all fish,” saidst thou; “what THEY do not fathom is unfathomable.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 51
“—Has any one at the end of the nineteenth century any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? If not, I will describe it. If one had the smallest vestige of superstition in one, it would hardly be possible to set aside completely the idea that one is the mere incarnation, mouthpiece or medium of an almighty power.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2277
The thawing wind, a bullock, which is no ploughing bullock—a furious bullock, a destroyer, which with angry horns breaketh the ice! The ice however—BREAKETH GANGWAYS!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 332
Ever hearkeneth the Self, and seeketh; it compareth, mastereth, conquereth, and destroyeth. It ruleth, and is also the ego’s ruler.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 556
Raise no longer an arm against them! Innumerable are they, and it is not thy lot to be a fly-flap.