Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2902
Thus spake the ugliest man. Zarathustra however got up, and prepared to go on: for he felt frozen to the very bowels.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2077
O lonesomeness! My HOME, lonesomeness! Too long have I lived wildly in wild remoteness, to return to thee without tears!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 188
Verily, a fine catch of fish hath Zarathustra made to-day! It is not a man he hath caught, but a corpse.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1773
This long lane backwards: it continueth for an eternity. And that long lane forward—that is another eternity.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3080
“Likewise perishing of thirst,” continued the soothsayer. “And although I hear water splashing here like words of wisdom—that is to say, plenteously and unweariedly, I—want WINE!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2158
Away from itself doth it banish everything cowardly; it saith: “Bad—THAT IS cowardly!” Contemptible seem to it the ever-solicitous, the sighing, the complaining, and whoever pick up the most trifling advantage.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1843
O heaven above me, thou pure, thou deep heaven! Thou abyss of light! Gazing on thee, I tremble with divine desires.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1937
Also what ye omit weaveth at the web of all the human future; even your naught is a cobweb, and a spider that liveth on the blood of the future.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 113
Oh, that soul was itself meagre, ghastly, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of that soul!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1831
As yet have I never ventured to call thee UP; it hath been enough that I—have carried thee about with me! As yet have I not been strong enough for my final lion-wantonness and playfulness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1934
Ye ever become smaller, ye small people! Ye crumble away, ye comfortable ones! Ye will yet perish—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1642
This, however, is mine other manly prudence: I am more forbearing to the VAIN than to the proud.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2586
And we gazed at each other, and looked at the green meadow o’er which the cool evening was just passing, and we wept together.—Then, however, was Life dearer unto me than all my Wisdom had ever been.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 906
God is a conjecture: but I do not wish your conjecturing to reach beyond your creating will.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 784
Thus should one learn to die; and there should be no festival at which such a dying one doth not consecrate the oaths of the living!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 979
Bad enemies are they: nothing is more revengeful than their meekness. And readily doth he soil himself who toucheth them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1553
But more frightful even, and more heart-strangling was it, when it again became silent and still all around, and I alone sat in that malignant silence.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 402
He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2229
—Out into distant futures, which no dream hath yet seen, into warmer souths than ever sculptor conceived,—where gods in their dancing are ashamed of all clothes:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2834
The old pope however did not answer, but looked aside timidly, with a painful and gloomy expression.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2121
Alas, that the rosy dawn came too early to me: she glowed me awake, the jealous one! Jealous is she always of the glows of my morning-dream.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1266
Invulnerable am I only in my heel. Ever livest thou there, and art like thyself, thou most patient one! Ever hast thou burst all shackles of the tomb!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 511
This sign I give unto you: every people speaketh its language of good and evil: this its neighbour understandeth not. Its language hath it devised for itself in laws and customs.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2462
How charming it is that there are words and tones; are not words and tones rainbows and seeming bridges ‘twixt the eternally separated?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 39
With the exception of the ten days occupied in composing the first part of this book, my brother often referred to this winter as the hardest and sickliest he had ever experienced. He did not, however, mean thereby that his former disorders were troubling him, but that he was suffering from a severe attack of influenza which he had caught in Santa Margherita, and which tormented him for several weeks after his arrival in Genoa.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3268
Many-hued and foreign, forsooth! but without clouds: riddles which can be guessed: to please such maidens I then composed an after-dinner psalm.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 149
I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 109
I conjure you, my brethren, REMAIN TRUE TO THE EARTH, and believe not those who speak unto you of superearthly hopes! Poisoners are they, whether they know it or not.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 436
“This tree standeth lonely here on the hills; it hath grown up high above man and beast.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2212
A testing and a questioning hath been all my travelling:—and verily, one must also LEARN to answer such questioning! That, however,—is my taste:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3070
O my guests, ye strange ones—have ye yet heard nothing of my children? And that they are on the way to me?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 867
“—and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2218
Meanwhile do I talk to myself as one who hath time. No one telleth me anything new, so I tell myself mine own story.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1861
—An angry drummer, because they rob me of thy Yea and Amen!—thou heaven above me, thou pure, thou luminous heaven! Thou abyss of light!—because they rob thee of MY Yea and Amen.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1251
Once did I long for happy auspices: then did ye lead an owl-monster across my path, an adverse sign. Ah, whither did my tender longing then flee?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2347
O my brethren, there are tables which weariness framed, and tables which slothfulness framed, corrupt slothfulness: although they speak similarly, they want to be heard differently.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 944
Preferably also do I shroud my head, and flee, before being recognised: and thus do I bid you do, my friends!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 356
Thou implantedst thy highest aim into the heart of those passions: then became they thy virtues and joys.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 875
Verily, all too well do I understand the dream’s portent and monition: my DOCTRINE is in danger; tares want to be called wheat!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1645
Good actors have I found all the vain ones: they play, and wish people to be fond of beholding them—all their spirit is in this wish.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3538
In Part III., we get the sentiments of the discourse “In the Happy Isles”, but perhaps in stronger terms. Once again we find Nietzsche thoroughly at ease, if not cheerful, as an atheist, and speaking with vertiginous daring of making chance go on its knees to him. In verse 20, Zarathustra makes yet another attempt at defining his entirely anti-anarchical attitude, and unless such passages have been completely overlooked or deliberately ignored hitherto by those who will persist in laying anarchy at his door, it is impossible to understand how he ever became associated with that foul political party.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 214
Fellow-creators, Zarathustra seeketh; fellow-reapers and fellow-rejoicers, Zarathustra seeketh: what hath he to do with herds and herdsmen and corpses!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 498
Ye shall only have enemies to be hated, but not enemies to be despised. Ye must be proud of your enemies; then, the successes of your enemies are also your successes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1525
Thus told Zarathustra. His disciples, however, hardly listened to him: so great was their eagerness to tell him about the sailors, the rabbits, and the flying man.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1812
For in one’s heart one loveth only one’s child and one’s work; and where there is great love to oneself, then is it the sign of pregnancy: so have I found it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3043
And verily, towards thy mountain and thy tree do many eyes turn to-day; a great longing hath arisen, and many have learned to ask: ‘Who is Zarathustra?’
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2671
Zarathustra was silent thereupon, confused and staggered; at last he asked, like one who hesitateth in himself: “And who is it that there calleth me?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1988
Let them HEAR me chattering and sighing with winter-cold, all those poor squinting knaves around me! With such sighing and chattering do I flee from their heated rooms.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2315
TO THOSE do I say it to the face, although it sound unpleasantly: the world resembleth man, in that it hath a backside,—SO MUCH is true!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3557
(See Note on Chapter XLVI.) In Part II. of this discourse we meet with a doctrine not touched upon hitherto, save indirectly;—I refer to the doctrine of self-love. We should try to understand this perfectly before proceeding; for it is precisely views of this sort which, after having been cut out of the original context, are repeated far and wide as internal evidence proving the general unsoundness of Nietzsche’s philosophy.