Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2575
“O Zarathustra! Crack not so terribly with thy whip! Thou knowest surely that noise killeth thought,—and just now there came to me such delicate thoughts.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2291
This however is the other danger, and mine other sympathy:—he who is of the populace, his thoughts go back to his grandfather,—with his grandfather, however, doth time cease.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1611
And then did cloud after cloud roll over the spirit, until at last madness preached: “Everything perisheth, therefore everything deserveth to perish!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 527
Just see these superfluous ones! Wealth they acquire and become poorer thereby. Power they seek for, and above all, the lever of power, much money—these impotent ones!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3548
Nietzsche’s great love for his fellows, which he confesses in the Prologue, and which is at the root of all his teaching, seems rather to elude the discerning powers of the average philanthropist and modern man. He cannot see the wood for the trees.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2886
THAT however—namely, pity—is called virtue itself at present by all petty people:—they have no reverence for great misfortune, great ugliness, great failure.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2869
“I know thee well,” said he, with a brazen voice, “THOU ART THE MURDERER OF GOD! Let me go.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1460
And because we know little, therefore are we pleased from the heart with the poor in spirit, especially when they are young women!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2392
And better marriage-breaking than marriage-bending, marriage-lying!—Thus spake a woman unto me: “Indeed, I broke the marriage, but first did the marriage break—me!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 883
My impatient love overfloweth in streams,—down towards sunrise and sunset. Out of silent mountains and storms of affliction, rusheth my soul into the valleys.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1787
—Then did I hear a dog howl thus. And saw it also, with hair bristling, its head upwards, trembling in the stillest midnight, when even dogs believe in ghosts:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2060
And some of them have even become night-watchmen: they know now how to blow horns, and go about at night and awaken old things which have long fallen asleep.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2320
Such sayings did I hear pious backworldsmen speak to their consciences, and verily without wickedness or guile,—although there is nothing more guileful in the world, or more wicked.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1720
Thou goest the way to thy greatness: now hath it become thy last refuge, what was hitherto thy last danger!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 260
No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1491
There is an isle in the sea—not far from the Happy Isles of Zarathustra—on which a volcano ever smoketh; of which isle the people, and especially the old women amongst them, say that it is placed as a rock before the gate of the nether-world; but that through the volcano itself the narrow way leadeth downwards which conducteth to this gate.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 519
Yea, it findeth you out too, ye conquerors of the old God! Weary ye became of the conflict, and now your weariness serveth the new idol!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1888
I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me for not envying their virtues.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 206
A light hath dawned upon me. Not to the people is Zarathustra to speak, but to companions! Zarathustra shall not be the herd’s herdsman and hound!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3292
Such food may sure enough not be proper for children, nor even for longing girls old and young. One persuadeth their bowels otherwise; I am not their physician and teacher.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2105
O human hubbub, thou wonderful thing! Thou noise in dark streets! Now art thou again behind me:—my greatest danger lieth behind me!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 48
My ‘future’ is the darkest thing in the world to me, but as there still remains a great deal for me to do, I suppose I ought rather to think of doing this than of my future, and leave the rest to THEE and the gods.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 205
But I need living companions, who will follow me because they want to follow themselves—and to the place where I will.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 880
Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1516
Like thyself the state is a dissembling dog; like thee doth it like to speak with smoke and roaring—to make believe, like thee, that it speaketh out of the heart of things.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2040
His second companions, however—they will call themselves his BELIEVERS,—will be a living host, with much love, much folly, much unbearded veneration.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2495
Go out unto the roses, the bees, and the flocks of doves! Especially, however, unto the singing birds, to learn SINGING from them!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 226
When Zarathustra had said this, he remembered the words of the saint in the forest. Then he sighed and spake thus to his heart:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3211
Unto all of you, whatever honours ye like to assume in your names, whether ye call yourselves ‘the free spirits’ or ‘the conscientious,’ or ‘the penitents of the spirit,’ or ‘the unfettered,’ or ‘the great longers,’—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1184
Mine eye no longer overfloweth for the shame of suppliants; my hand hath become too hard for the trembling of filled hands.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 862
Verily, with other eyes, my brethren, shall I then seek my lost ones; with another love shall I then love you.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2337
There standeth the boat—thither goeth it over, perhaps into vast nothingness—but who willeth to enter into this “Perhaps”?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2020
Out of love alone shall my contempt and my warning bird take wing; but not out of the swamp!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3368
Ah! Ah! The dog howleth, the moon shineth. Rather will I die, rather will I die, than say unto you what my midnight-heart now thinketh.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 763
Well, I do not like it, that heaven of the superfluous! No, I do not like them, those animals tangled in the heavenly toils!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 693
But the worst enemy thou canst meet, wilt thou thyself always be; thou waylayest thyself in caverns and forests.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3397
—Her woe doth she ruminate over, in a dream, the old, deep midnight—and still more her joy. For joy, although woe be deep, JOY IS DEEPER STILL THAN GRIEF CAN BE.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3449
As a matter of fact, “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, though it is unquestionably Nietzsche’s opus magnum, is by no means the first of Nietzsche’s works that the beginner ought to undertake to read. The author himself refers to it as the deepest work ever offered to the German public, and elsewhere speaks of his other writings as being necessary for the understanding of it. But when it is remembered that in Zarathustra we not only have the history of his most intimate experiences, friendships, feuds, disappointments, triumphs and the like, but that the very form in which they are narrated is one which tends rather to obscure than to throw light upon them, the difficulties which meet the reader who starts quite unprepared will be seen to be really formidable.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3097
And when I spake unto all, I spake unto none. In the evening, however, rope-dancers were my companions, and corpses; and I myself almost a corpse.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2148
Passion for power: before whose glance man creepeth and croucheth and drudgeth, and becometh lower than the serpent and the swine:—until at last great contempt crieth out of him—,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1350
For the first time brought I an eye to see you, and good desire: verily, with longing in my heart did I come.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3633
Zarathustra calls the ugliest man the murderer of God! Certainly, this is one aspect of a certain kind of Atheism—the Atheism of the man who reveres beauty to such an extent that his own ugliness, which outrages him, must be concealed from every eye lest it should not be respected as Zarathustra respected it. If there be a God, He too must be evaded. His pity must be foiled. But God is ubiquitous and omniscient. Therefore, for the really GREAT ugly man, He must not exist.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 44
In the end I was obliged to be satisfied with the Piazza Barberini, after I had exerted myself in vain to find an anti-Christian quarter. I fear that on one occasion, to avoid bad smells as much as possible, I actually inquired at the Palazzo del Quirinale whether they could not provide a quiet room for a philosopher.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1387
Piously and silently doth he stalk along on the star-carpets:—but I like no light-treading human feet, on which not even a spur jingleth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1353
With fifty patches painted on faces and limbs—so sat ye there to mine astonishment, ye present-day men!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3465
Pity, the obliging hand, the warm heart, patience, industry, and humility—these are unquestionably the qualities we shall here find flooded with the light of approval and admiration; because they are the most USEFUL qualities—; they make life endurable, they are of assistance in the “struggle for existence” which is the motive force behind the people practising this morality. To this class, all that is AWFUL is bad, in fact it is THE evil par excellence.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 182
Zarathustra, however, remained standing, and just beside him fell the body, badly injured and disfigured, but not yet dead. After a while consciousness returned to the shattered man, and he saw Zarathustra kneeling beside him. “What art thou doing there?” said he at last, “I knew long ago that the devil would trip me up. Now he draggeth me to hell: wilt thou prevent him?”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1456
Belief doth not sanctify me, said he, least of all the belief in myself.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1445
For men are NOT equal: so speaketh justice. And what I will, THEY may not will!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1596
To redeem what is past, and to transform every “It was” into “Thus would I have it!”—that only do I call redemption!