Nietzsche Zarathustra Quotes

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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

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#5. Nietzsche [10w]
Zarathustra's high-wire act is over;
the circus has left town.

Beryl Dov

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

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#7. 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.

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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. 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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#10. 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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#11. Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one

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#12. As Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spake Zarathustra: "You must be proud of your enemy; then your enemy's successes are also your successes."87 Be proud of your competitors. Just don't follow them.

Eric Schmidt

#13. 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 ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. 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.

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#16. I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

Joni Mitchell

#17. 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!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. Yes, I recognize Zarathustra. His eyes are clear now, no longer does he sneer with loathing. Just see how he dances along!

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

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

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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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