Friedrich Nietzsche Zarathustra Quotes

#1. I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.

Antonio Banderas

#2. I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Why?" said Zarathustra. "Thou askest why? I do not belong to those who may be asked after their Why.

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#4. And now we celebrate, in victory bound,
The feast of feasts:
Friend Zarathustra came, the guest of guests!
Now laughs the world, the ancient curtain's torn,
And light and darkness wedded are as one ...

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#5. Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one

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#6. The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved.

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#7. It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

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#8. Hunger attacks me," said Zarathustra, "like a robber. Among forests and swamps my hunger attacks me, and late in the night.

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#9. I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.

Colin Trevorrow

#10. And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Free from what? What does Zarathustra care! But brightly your eyes should signal to me: free for what? Can

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#12. again passed moons and years over Zarathustra's soul, and he heeded it not; his hair, however, became white.

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#13. Decisions in 10 minutes or less, or the next one is free.

Brian Valentine

#14. Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts.

Pat Conroy

#16. But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere
until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection ... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. The most important thing an artist
can discover is a love of process.

Kody Chamberlain

#18. The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Henry Adams

#19. Zarathustra saw many lands and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

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#21. But when Zarathustra was alone, he addressed his heart thus: "Can it really be possible? This old holy man in his forest still hasn't received any notice that God is dead!

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#22. Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

Jimmy Carter

#23. I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. It's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses.

Joan Bauer

#25. That which is ready to fall, shall ye also push!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. We don't actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don't know exactly when it was written.

Elaine Pagels

#27. But strangers and the poor may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree: that causes less shame. But beggars should be entirely done away with! Truly, it annoys one to give to them and it annoys one not to give to them.

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#28. But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

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#29. Many lands saw Zarathustra, and many peoples: no greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than the creations of the loving ones - "good" and "bad" are they called.

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#30. My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.

Chelsea Handler

#31. Yes, I recognize Zarathustra. His eyes are clear now, no longer does he sneer with loathing. Just see how he dances along!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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#33. You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid for her love?

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#34. My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it.

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#35. Thereafter Zarathustra went on again for two hours, trusting to the path and the light of the stars:

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#36. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.

Aimee Bender

#37. Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom
thus Zarathustra instructs you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#38. This crown of the laughter, the rosary crown: to you, my brothers, I throw this crown! I pronounced laughter holy: you higher men, learn - to laugh!

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