Top 37 Zarathustra's Quotes
#1. Nietzsche [10w]
Zarathustra's high-wire act is over;
the circus has left town.
Beryl Dov
#2. again passed moons and years over Zarathustra's soul, and he heeded it not; his hair, however, became white.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Free from what? What does Zarathustra care! But brightly your eyes should signal to me: free for what? Can
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. 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
#7. [Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.
Georges Bataille
#8. Why?" said Zarathustra. "Thou askest why? I do not belong to those who may be asked after their Why.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. 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
#10. Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? - Thus Spake Zarathustra
Irvin D. Yalom
#11. 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. The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. Hunger attacks me," said Zarathustra, "like a robber. Among forests and swamps my hunger attacks me, and late in the night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. 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
#17. Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. 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
#19. But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.
Colin Wilson
#20. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. 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
#22. 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!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. Zarathustra: Do you have words? Do your words belong to you?
Giannina: No, my answer is no. I have no property in the dictionary. Words are anonymous like the disenfranchised masses that haven't been weighed - or named - or framed. My words belong to those who don't belong.
Giannina Braschi
#24. Zarathustra received his revelations from the archangels at age thirty, when he began his prophetic mission; Siddhartha's great renunciation of his princely life took place in his thirtieth year. Thoreau at age thirty finished his self-imposed isolation at Walden Pond.
Kevin Dann
#25. 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
#26. I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: ye have still chaos in you.
Nietszche
#28. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom
thus Zarathustra instructs you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. Yes, I recognize Zarathustra. His eyes are clear now, no longer does he sneer with loathing. Just see how he dances along!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. Altered is Zarathustra; a child hath Zarathustra become; an awakened one is Zarathustra: what wilt thou do in the land of the sleepers?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid for her love?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. Thereafter Zarathustra went on again for two hours, trusting to the path and the light of the stars:
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. Out of all these people, Zarathustra is unique. He is the only one who is not against life, who is for life; whose god is not somewhere else, whose god is nothing but another name for life itself. And to live totally, to live joyously and to live intensely, is all that religion is based on. I
Osho
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