Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 961
To him however, who is possessed of a devil, I would whisper this word in the ear: “Better for thee to rear up thy devil! Even for thee there is still a path to greatness!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 141
I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1830
To my very throat throbbeth my heart when I hear thee burrowing! Thy muteness even is like to strangle me, thou abysmal mute one!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1833
When I shall have surmounted myself therein, then will I surmount myself also in that which is greater; and a VICTORY shall be the seal of my perfection!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3491
It is interesting to observe that the last line of the discourse, which has so frequently been used by women as a weapon against Nietzsche’s views concerning them, was suggested to Nietzsche by a woman (see “Das Leben F. Nietzsche’s”).
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1816
Gnarled and crooked and with flexible hardness shall it then stand by the sea, a living lighthouse of unconquerable life.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2946
Furthest, to be sure, have those kine carried it: they have devised ruminating and lying in the sun. They also abstain from all heavy thoughts which inflate the heart.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1474
They did not think sufficiently into the depth; therefore their feeling did not reach to the bottom.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 659
The furthest ones are they who pay for your love to the near ones; and when there are but five of you together, a sixth must always die.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 882
To my friends can I again go down, and also to mine enemies! Zarathustra can again speak and bestow, and show his best love to his loved ones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1633
To man clingeth my will; with chains do I bind myself to man, because I am pulled upwards to the Superman: for thither doth mine other will tend.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 372
When he judged himself—that was his supreme moment; let not the exalted one relapse again into his low estate!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 619
As yet woman is not capable of friendship. But tell me, ye men, who of you are capable of friendship?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2344
For if ye be not invalids, or decrepit creatures, of whom the earth is weary, then are ye sly sloths, or dainty, sneaking pleasure-cats. And if ye will not again RUN gaily, then shall ye—pass away!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1669
And disguised will I myself sit amongst you—that I may MISTAKE you and myself: for that is my last manly prudence.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2733
As a wanderer who dreameth of remote things on a lonesome highway, runneth unawares against a sleeping dog, a dog which lieth in the sun:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 198
“Strange humours hath my hunger. Often it cometh to me only after a repast, and all day it hath failed to come: where hath it been?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 516
See just how it enticeth them to it, the many-too-many! How it swalloweth and cheweth and recheweth them!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1139
And many a powerful one who wanted to run well with the people, hath harnessed in front of his horses—a donkey, a famous wise man.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 307
Yea, this ego, with its contradiction and perplexity, speaketh most uprightly of its being—this creating, willing, evaluing ego, which is the measure and value of things.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3233
“Thou praisest me,” replied the conscientious one, “in that thou separatest me from thyself; very well! But, ye others, what do I see? Ye still sit there, all of you, with lusting eyes—:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1908
There are actors without knowing it amongst them, and actors without intending it—, the genuine ones are always rare, especially the genuine actors.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2578
And that I am friendly to thee, and often too friendly, that knowest thou: and the reason is that I am envious of thy Wisdom. Ah, this mad old fool, Wisdom!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 844
Not only the rationality of millenniums—also their madness, breaketh out in us. Dangerous is it to be an heir.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2798
THEREIN do I honour thee as a penitent-in-spirit, and although only for the twinkling of an eye, in that one moment wast thou—genuine.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1810
Companions did the creating one once seek, and children of HIS hope: and lo, it turned out that he could not find them, except he himself should first create them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 378
But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel of causality doth not roll between them.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 232
What is heavy? so asketh the load-bearing spirit; then kneeleth it down like the camel, and wanteth to be well laden.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 794
Sour apples are there, no doubt, whose lot is to wait until the last day of autumn: and at the same time they become ripe, yellow, and shrivelled.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2254
He who cannot command himself shall obey. And many a one CAN command himself, but still sorely lacketh self-obedience!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 423
“If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 45
In a chamber high above the Piazza just mentioned, from which one obtained a general view of Rome and could hear the fountains plashing far below, the loneliest of all songs was composed—‘The Night-Song’. About this time I was obsessed by an unspeakably sad melody, the refrain of which I recognised in the words, ‘dead through immortality.’”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1710
When, however, Zarathustra had spoken these words, the violence of his pain, and a sense of the nearness of his departure from his friends came over him, so that he wept aloud; and no one knew how to console him. In the night, however, he went away alone and left his friends.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3383
—A perfume and odour of eternity, a rosy-blessed, brown, gold-wine-odour of old happiness,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3111
For to-day have the petty people become master: they all preach submission and humility and policy and diligence and consideration and the long et cetera of petty virtues.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2687
But what good-will it do thee? In the evening wilt thou have me again: in thine own cave will I sit, patient and heavy like a block—and wait for thee!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1577
When Zarathustra went one day over the great bridge, then did the cripples and beggars surround him, and a hunchback spake thus unto him:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3099
Ye higher men, learn THIS from me: On the market-place no one believeth in higher men. But if ye will speak there, very well! The populace, however, blinketh: “We are all equal.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 769
That one was reserved in intercourse and chose choicely. But one time he spoilt his company for all time: his marriage he calleth it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2705
—Fie, to stand for the first men among the rabble! Ah, loathing! Loathing! Loathing! What doth it now matter about us kings!”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 416
To see these light, foolish, pretty, lively little sprites flit about—that moveth Zarathustra to tears and songs.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2122
Measurable by him who hath time, weighable by a good weigher, attainable by strong pinions, divinable by divine nut-crackers: thus did my dream find the world:—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 440
And when they had walked a while together, Zarathustra began to speak thus:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3482
This is an analysis of the psychology of all those who have the “evil eye” and are pessimists by virtue of their constitutions.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 210
Behold the believers of all beliefs! Whom do they hate most? Him who breaketh up their tables of values, the breaker, the law-breaker—he, however, is the creator.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 973
So be ye warned against pity: FROM THENCE there yet cometh unto men a heavy cloud! Verily, I understand weather-signs!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1706
And again was there a laughing, and it fled: then did it become still around me, as with a double stillness. I lay, however, on the ground, and the sweat flowed from my limbs.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1758
“O Zarathustra,” it whispered scornfully, syllable by syllable, “thou stone of wisdom! Thou threwest thyself high, but every thrown stone must—fall!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2909
They tell me that man loveth himself. Ah, how great must that self-love be! How much contempt is opposed to it!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 934
I will complete it: for a shadow came unto me—the stillest and lightest of all things once came unto me!