Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2395
—“Give us a set term and a small marriage, that we may see if we are fit for the great marriage! It is a great matter always to be twain.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 765
Laugh not at such marriages! What child hath not had reason to weep over its parents?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 172
They have their little pleasures for the day, and their little pleasures for the night, but they have a regard for health.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3555
I, personally, can no longer have any doubt that Nietzsche’s only object, in that part of his philosophy where he bids his friends stand “Beyond Good and Evil” with him, was to save higher men, whose growth and scope might be limited by the too strict observance of modern values from foundering on the rocks of a “Compromise” between their own genius and traditional conventions.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2325
“Wisdom wearieth, nothing is worth while; thou shalt not crave!”—this new table found I hanging even in the public markets.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3131
My wisdom hath accumulated long like a cloud, it becometh stiller and darker. So doeth all wisdom which shall one day bear LIGHTNINGS.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3067
—NOT the men of great longing, of great loathing, of great satiety, and that which ye call the remnant of God;
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1883
And these rooms and chambers—can MEN go out and in there? They seem to be made for silk dolls; or for dainty-eaters, who perhaps let others eat with them.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1400
Where is beauty? Where I MUST WILL with my whole Will; where I will love and perish, that an image may not remain merely an image.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1971
Clattering with diction and dice, I outwit the solemn assistants: all those stern watchers, shall my will and purpose elude.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2235
For must there not be that which is danced OVER, danced beyond? Must there not, for the sake of the nimble, the nimblest,—be moles and clumsy dwarfs?—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2753
“O Zarathustra,” answered the trodden one, “that would be something immense; how could I presume to do so!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1130
Verily, no cyclone or whirlwind is Zarathustra: and if he be a dancer, he is not at all a tarantula-dancer!—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2335
Willing emancipateth: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And ONLY for creating shall ye learn!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1044
And some want to be edified and raised up, and call it virtue: and others want to be cast down,—and likewise call it virtue.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 323
More uprightly and purely speaketh the healthy body, perfect and square-built; and it speaketh of the meaning of the earth.—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 437
And if it wanted to speak, it would have none who could understand it: so high hath it grown.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3208
Hardly, however, had Zarathustra left the cave when the old magician got up, looked cunningly about him, and said: “He is gone!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2352
Better still that ye let him lie where he hath lain down, that sleep may come unto him, the comforter, with cooling patter-rain.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1504
Ye understand how to roar and obscure with ashes! Ye are the best braggarts, and have sufficiently learned the art of making dregs boil.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 13
Now, however, a new table of valuations must be placed over mankind—namely, that of the strong, mighty, and magnificent man, overflowing with life and elevated to his zenith—the Superman, who is now put before us with overpowering passion as the aim of our life, hope, and will.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3034
“O Zarathustra, by the way in which thou hast given us thy hand and thy greeting, we recognise thee as Zarathustra. Thou hast humbled thyself before us; almost hast thou hurt our reverence—:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1585
Verily, my friends, I walk amongst men as amongst the fragments and limbs of human beings!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3000
As such a weary ship in the calmest cove, so do I also now repose, nigh to the earth, faithful, trusting, waiting, bound to it with the lightest threads.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1602
Ah, a fool becometh every prisoner! Foolishly delivereth itself also the imprisoned Will.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2328
—For a ruined stomach, is their spirit: IT persuadeth to death! For verily, my brethren, the spirit IS a stomach!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 490
One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2137
Now stand the scales poised and at rest: three heavy questions have I thrown in; three heavy answers carrieth the other scale.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2915
Already am I less alone; unconscious companions and brethren rove around me; their warm breath toucheth my soul.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3285
This day is a victory: he already yieldeth, he fleeth, THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY, mine old arch-enemy! How well this day is about to end, which began so badly and gloomily!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1846
Mute o’er the raging sea hast thou risen for me to-day; thy love and thy modesty make a revelation unto my raging soul.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2997
It stretcheth itself out, long—longer! it lieth still, my strange soul. Too many good things hath it already tasted; this golden sadness oppresseth it, it distorteth its mouth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 360
Out of thy poisons brewedst thou balsam for thyself; thy cow, affliction, milkedst thou—now drinketh thou the sweet milk of her udder.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1940
Ah, that ye would renounce all HALF-willing, and would decide for idleness as ye decide for action!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 538
Flee, my friend, into thy solitude! I see thee deafened with the noise of the great men, and stung all over with the stings of the little ones.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 968
One should hold fast one’s heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one’s head run away!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 62
In the following November, while staying at Mentone, he began to elaborate these notes, and after a long pause, finished the manuscript at Nice between the end of January and the middle of February 1885. My brother then called this part the fourth and last; but even before, and shortly after it had been privately printed, he wrote to me saying that he still intended writing a fifth and sixth part, and notes relating to these parts are now in my possession. This fourth part (the original MS.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2560
Whither pullest thou me now, thou paragon and tomboy? And now foolest thou me fleeing; thou sweet romp dost annoy!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2850
There is also good taste in piety: THIS at last said: ‘Away with SUCH a God! Better to have no God, better to set up destiny on one’s own account, better to be a fool, better to be God oneself!’”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2150
Passion for power: which, however, mounteth alluringly even to the pure and lonesome, and up to self-satisfied elevations, glowing like a love that painteth purple felicities alluringly on earthly heavens.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3496
Words, like all other manifestations of an evolving race, are stamped with the values that have long been paramount in that race. Now, the original thinker who finds himself compelled to use the current speech of his country in order to impart new and hitherto untried views to his fellows, imposes a task upon the natural means of communication which it is totally unfitted to perform,—hence the obscurities and prolixities which are so frequently met with in the writings of original thinkers.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2856
“Amen! So shall it be!” said Zarathustra, with great astonishment; “up thither leadeth the way, there lieth the cave of Zarathustra.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2429
“Why so hard!”—said to the diamond one day the charcoal; “are we then not near relatives?”—
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 425
Thereupon the youth arose disconcerted, and said: “I hear Zarathustra, and just now was I thinking of him!” Zarathustra answered:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1418
Kissed and sucked WOULD it be by the thirst of the sun; vapour WOULD it become, and height, and path of light, and light itself!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 600
Our faith in others betrayeth wherein we would fain have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 486
Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy—for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2993
As a delicate wind danceth invisibly upon parqueted seas, light, feather-light, so—danceth sleep upon me.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 181
The market-place and the people were like the sea when the storm cometh on: they all flew apart and in disorder, especially where the body was about to fall.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2784
And just acknowledge it: it was long, O Zarathustra, before thou discoveredst my trick and lie! Thou BELIEVEDST in my distress when thou heldest my head with both thy hands,—