Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 189

Sombre is human life, and as yet without meaning: a buffoon may be fateful to it.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 251

As its holiest, it once loved “Thou shalt”: now is it forced to find illusion and arbitrariness even in the holiest things, that it may capture freedom from its love: the lion is needed for this capture.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3102

Before God!—Now however this God hath died! Ye higher men, this God was your greatest danger.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1500

Now do I know how it is concerning the fire-dog; and likewise concerning all the spouting and subversive devils, of which not only old women are afraid.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 903

Thus, like figs, do these doctrines fall for you, my friends: imbibe now their juice and their sweet substance! It is autumn all around, and clear sky, and afternoon.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 577

I love the forest. It is bad to live in cities: there, there are too many of the lustful.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1782

For whatever CAN run its course of all things, also in this long lane OUTWARD—MUST it once more run!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2543

—Also many large and small animals, and everything that hath light marvellous feet, so that it can run on violet-blue paths,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2162

Hateful to it altogether, and a loathing, is he who will never defend himself, he who swalloweth down poisonous spittle and bad looks, the all-too-patient one, the all-endurer, the all-satisfied one: for that is the mode of slaves.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2043

Let them go and fall away, O Zarathustra, and do not lament! Better even to blow amongst them with rustling winds,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 351

Thus speak and stammer: “That is MY good, that do I love, thus doth it please me entirely, thus only do _I_ desire the good.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2814

But the devil is never at the place which would be his right place: he always cometh too late, that cursed dwarf and club-foot!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1416

See there, how she cometh impatiently over the sea! Do ye not feel the thirst and the hot breath of her love?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3011

“Up!” said he to himself, “thou sleeper! Thou noontide sleeper! Well then, up, ye old legs! It is time and more than time; many a good stretch of road is still awaiting you—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3508

This is a poetical epitome of some of the scathing criticism of scholars which appears in the first of the “Thoughts out of Season”—the polemical pamphlet (written in 1873) against David Strauss and his school. He reproaches his former colleagues with being sterile and shows them that their sterility is the result of their not believing in anything.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1345

Yea, thou sublime one, one day shalt thou also be beautiful, and hold up the mirror to thine own beauty.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 225

More dangerous have I found it among men than among animals; in dangerous paths goeth Zarathustra. Let mine animals lead me!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2127

—As if a tree nodded unto me, a broad-branched, strong-willed tree, curved as a recline and a foot-stool for weary travellers: thus did the world stand on my promontory:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3093

Thus spake Zarathustra; the king on the right however answered and said: “Strange! Did one ever hear such sensible things out of the mouth of a wise man?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 37

It was on these two roads that all ‘Zarathustra’ came to me, above all Zarathustra himself as a type;—I ought rather to say that it was on these walks that these ideas waylaid me.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2831

—Lo, I myself am surely the most godless of us at present? But who could rejoice at that!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 746

And would ye hear this likewise? To him who seeketh to be just from the heart, even the lie becometh philanthropy.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3315

—“And thou,” said Zarathustra to the wanderer and shadow, “thou callest and thinkest thyself a free spirit? And thou here practisest such idolatry and hierolatry?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 742

I do not like your cold justice; out of the eye of your judges there always glanceth the executioner and his cold steel.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3532

In this parable the young shepherd is obviously the man of to-day; the snake that chokes him represents the stultifying and paralysing social values that threaten to shatter humanity, and the advice “Bite! Bite!” is but Nietzsche’s exasperated cry to mankind to alter their values before it is too late.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1868

Verily, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that “above all things there standeth the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of hazard, the heaven of wantonness.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 86

Altered is Zarathustra; a child hath Zarathustra become; an awakened one is Zarathustra: what wilt thou do in the land of the sleepers?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2987

Thou poor rover and rambler, thou tired butterfly! wilt thou have a rest and a home this evening? Then go up to my cave!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2012

—On the city of the obtrusive, the brazen-faced, the pen-demagogues and tongue-demagogues, the overheated ambitious:—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3577

“All that increases power is good, all that springs from weakness is bad. The weak and ill-constituted shall perish: first principle of our charity. And one shall also help them thereto.” Nietzsche partly divined the kind of reception moral values of this stamp would meet with at the hands of the effeminate manhood of Europe. Here we see that he had anticipated the most likely form their criticism would take (see also the last two verses of par. 17).

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2331

And such is always the nature of weak men: they lose themselves on their way. And at last asketh their weariness: “Why did we ever go on the way? All is indifferent!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 140

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one’s destiny to cling to.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 403

In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route thou must have long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 700

With thy love, go into thine isolation, my brother, and with thy creating; and late only will justice limp after thee.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2025

Thus spake Zarathustra. Then did he look on the great city and sighed, and was long silent. At last he spake thus:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1667

Into more distant futures, into more southern souths than ever artist dreamed of: thither, where Gods are ashamed of all clothes!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1749

To you, the daring venturers and adventurers, and whoever hath embarked with cunning sails upon frightful seas,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2066

“Ay! Ay! Belief saveth him; belief in him. That is the way with old people! So it is with us also!”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 981

And when they had passed, a pain attacked Zarathustra; but not long had he struggled with the pain, when he began to speak thus:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1879

O heaven above me, thou modest one! thou glowing one! O thou, my happiness before sunrise! The day cometh: so let us part!—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 620

Oh! your poverty, ye men, and your sordidness of soul! As much as ye give to your friend, will I give even to my foe, and will not have become poorer thereby.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2540

But wilt thou not weep, wilt thou not weep forth thy purple melancholy, then wilt thou have to SING, O my soul!—Behold, I smile myself, who foretell thee this:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3677

In this discourse, Nietzsche disassociates himself finally from the higher men, and by the symbol of the lion, wishes to convey to us that he has won over and mastered the best and the most terrible in nature. That great power and tenderness are kin, was already his belief in 1875—eight years before he wrote this speech, and when the birds and the lion come to him, it is because he is the embodiment of the two qualities.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3025

But it seemeth to me that ye are badly adapted for company: ye make one another’s hearts fretful, ye that cry for help, when ye sit here together? There is one that must first come,

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3495

In verse 20 he gives us a hint which it were well not to pass over too lightly; for, in the introduction to “The Genealogy of Morals” (written in 1887) he finds it necessary to refer to the matter again and with greater precision. The point is this, that a creator of new values meets with his surest and strongest obstacles in the very spirit of the language which is at his disposal.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3542

Many have adopted Nietzsche’s mannerisms and word-coinages, who had nothing in common with him beyond the ideas and “business” they plagiarised; but the superficial observer and a large portion of the public, not knowing of these things,—not knowing perhaps that there are iconoclasts who destroy out of love and are therefore creators, and that there are others who destroy out of resentment and revengefulness and who are therefore revolutionists and anarchists,—are prone to confound the two, to the detriment of the nobler type.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 166

A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 717

A plaything let woman be, pure and fine like the precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1914

Round, fair, and considerate are they to one another, as grains of sand are round, fair, and considerate to grains of sand.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2237

—That man is a bridge and not a goal—rejoicing over his noontides and evenings, as advances to new rosy dawns:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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