Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 716

In the true man there is a child hidden: it wanteth to play. Up then, ye women, and discover the child in man!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2513

—To speak again the word of the great noontide of earth and man, to announce again to man the Superman.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2652

Did ever any one catch fish upon high mountains? And though it be a folly what I here seek and do, it is better so than that down below I should become solemn with waiting, and green and yellow—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 468

Their wisdom speaketh thus: “A fool, he who remaineth alive; but so far are we fools! And that is the foolishest thing in life!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3194

Better, however, to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune, better to dance awkwardly than walk lamely. So learn, I pray you, my wisdom, ye higher men: even the worst thing hath two good reverse sides,—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2770

Ha! Ha! Thou stealest nigh In midnight’s gloomy hour?... What wilt thou? Speak! Thou crowdst me, pressest— Ha! now far too closely! Thou hearst me breathing, Thou o’erhearst my heart, Thou ever jealous one! —Of what, pray, ever jealous? Off! Off! For why the ladder? Wouldst thou GET IN? To heart in-clamber? To mine own secretest Conceptions in-clamber? Shameless one! Thou unknown one!—Thief! What seekst thou by thy stealing? What seekst thou by thy hearkening? What seekst thou by thy torturing? Thou torturer! Thou—hangman-God! Or shall I, as the mastiffs do, Roll me before thee? And cringing, enraptured, frantical, My tail friendly—waggle!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1015

Gently vibrated and laughed unto me to-day my buckler; it was beauty’s holy laughing and thrilling.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3477

This opening discourse is a parable in which Zarathustra discloses the mental development of all creators of new values. It is the story of a life which reaches its consummation in attaining to a second ingenuousness or in returning to childhood.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1307

With your values and formulae of good and evil, ye exercise power, ye valuing ones: and that is your secret love, and the sparkling, trembling, and overflowing of your souls.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2612

If the exploring delight be in me, which impelleth sails to the undiscovered, if the seafarer’s delight be in my delight:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3083

“Bread,” replied Zarathustra, laughing when he spake, “it is precisely bread that anchorites have not. But man doth not live by bread alone, but also by the flesh of good lambs, of which I have two:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3664

After his address to the higher men, Zarathustra goes out into the open to recover himself. Meanwhile the magician (Wagner), seizing the opportunity in order to draw them all into his net once more, sings the Song of Melancholy.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 621

Many lands saw Zarathustra, and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and bad of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and bad.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1886

Oh, when shall I arrive again at my home, where I shall no longer have to stoop—shall no longer have to stoop BEFORE THE SMALL ONES!”—And Zarathustra sighed, and gazed into the distance.—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 438

Now it waiteth and waiteth,—for what doth it wait? It dwelleth too close to the seat of the clouds; it waiteth perhaps for the first lightning?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1153

But the people ye remain for me, even with your virtues, the people with purblind eyes—the people who know not what SPIRIT is!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1485

What is beauty and sea and peacock-splendour to it! This parable I speak unto the poets.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3278

Where may it now tarry, all-forsaken weeping? The lonesomest leg? In fear perhaps before a Furious, yellow, blond and curled Leonine monster? Or perhaps even Gnawed away, nibbled badly— Most wretched, woeful! woeful! nibbled badly! Selah.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2282

Then again did one distrust all soothsayers and astrologers; and THEREFORE did one believe, “Everything is freedom: thou canst, for thou willest!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 563

They buzz around thee also with their praise: obtrusiveness, is their praise. They want to be close to thy skin and thy blood.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 399

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers—and spirit itself will stink.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2063

“He is too old! He now careth no more for his children,”—answered the other night-watchman.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2089

—Until at last thou alone sattest thirsty amongst the drunken ones, and wailedst nightly: ‘Is taking not more blessed than giving? And stealing yet more blessed than taking?’—THAT was forsakenness!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 122

The hour when ye say: “What good is my pity! Is not pity the cross on which he is nailed who loveth man? But my pity is not a crucifixion.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1141

The skin of the beast of prey, the speckled skin, and the dishevelled locks of the investigator, the searcher, and the conqueror!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 958

Like a boil is the evil deed: it itcheth and irritateth and breaketh forth—it speaketh honourably.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1899

And this also did I learn among them: the praiser doeth as if he gave back; in truth, however, he wanteth more to be given him!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2610

Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love thee, O Eternity!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3656

In the last verse, here, another shaft of light is thrown upon the Immaculate Perception or so-called “pure objectivity” of the scientific mind. “Freedom from fever is still far from being knowledge.” Where a man’s emotions cease to accompany him in his investigations, he is not necessarily nearer the truth. Says Spencer, in the Preface to his Autobiography:—“In the genesis of a system of thought, the emotional nature is a large factor: perhaps as large a factor as the intellectual nature” (see pages 134, 141 of Vol. I., “Thoughts out of Season”).

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1696

This is thy most unpardonable obstinacy: thou hast the power, and thou wilt not rule.”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 267

And even if one have all the virtues, there is still one thing needful: to send the virtues themselves to sleep at the right time.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1598

Willing emancipateth: but what is that called which still putteth the emancipator in chains?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1277

It was ye, ye wisest ones, who put such guests in this boat, and gave them pomp and proud names—ye and your ruling Will!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3434

Zarathustra himself, however, stunned and strange, rose from his seat, looked around him, stood there astonished, inquired of his heart, bethought himself, and remained alone. “What did I hear?” said he at last, slowly, “what happened unto me just now?”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 698

Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way of the loving one: thou lovest thyself, and on that account despisest thou thyself, as only the loving ones despise.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1863

And “he who cannot bless shall LEARN to curse!”—this clear teaching dropt unto me from the clear heaven; this star standeth in my heaven even in dark nights.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 216

But I part from thee; the time hath arrived. ‘Twixt rosy dawn and rosy dawn there came unto me a new truth.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2774

—Nay! Come thou back! WITH all of thy great tortures! To me the last of lonesome ones, Oh, come thou back! All my hot tears in streamlets trickle Their course to thee! And all my final hearty fervour— Up-glow’th to THEE! Oh, come thou back, Mine unfamiliar God! my PAIN! My final bliss!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1605

Thus did the Will, the emancipator, become a torturer; and on all that is capable of suffering it taketh revenge, because it cannot go backward.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1701

The pride of youth is still upon thee; late hast thou become young: but he who would become a child must surmount even his youth.”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1051

Verily, I have taken from you a hundred formulae and your virtue’s favourite playthings; and now ye upbraid me, as children upbraid.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1403

But it shall be your curse, ye immaculate ones, ye pure discerners, that ye shall never bring forth, even though ye lie broad and teeming on the horizon!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2817

The world here is strange to me, and remote; wild beasts also did I hear howling; and he who could have given me protection—he is himself no more.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3316

Worse verily, doest thou here than with thy bad brown girls, thou bad, new believer!”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 433

My contempt and my longing increase together; the higher I clamber, the more do I despise him who clambereth. What doth he seek on the height?

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1375

As it is, however, I will make lighter of you, since I have to carry _what is heavy;_ and what matter if beetles and May-bugs also alight on my load!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2715

And when they are even the last men, and more beast than man, then riseth and riseth the populace in honour, and at last saith even the populace-virtue: ‘Lo, I alone am virtue!’”—

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 3072

This guests’-present do I solicit of your love, that ye speak unto me of my children. For them am I rich, for them I became poor: what have I not surrendered,

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 1029

And others are there who call virtue the slothfulness of their vices; and when once their hatred and jealousy relax the limbs, their “justice” becometh lively and rubbeth its sleepy eyes.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, passage 2221

This somnolence did I disturb when I taught that NO ONE YET KNOWETH what is good and bad:—unless it be the creating one!

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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