As Nietzsche himself reminds, “Aphorisms should be peaks”, and these ones of his are indeed all sublime that “you need long legs” of the mind in order to grasp them in the depth of their meanings!
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Nietzsche Quotes
(Out of ” Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885); the titles are mine)
http://www.nietzsche-quotes.com/thus-spoke-zarathustra-nietzsche-quotes
Purpose
You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Prologue 1
Arrogance
You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Prologue 3
Patience
Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must be a sea to be able to receive a polluted stream without becoming unclean.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Prologue 3
Change
One must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Prologue 5
Will
No shepherd and one herd! Everyone wants the same, everyone is the same: whoever feels different goes willingly into the madhouse.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Prologue 5
Human
Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and god? “Thou shalt” is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, “I will.” “Thou shalt” lies in his way, sparkling like gold, an animal covered with scales; and on every scale shines a golden “thou shalt.” Values, thousands of years old, shine on these scales; and thus speaks the mightiest of all the dragons: “All value of all things shines on me. All value has long been created, and I am all created value. Verily, there shall be no more ‘I will.'” Thus speaks the dragon.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 1
Body
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 4, “On the despisers of the Body”
Consciousness
And nothing evil grows in you any longer, unless it is the evil that grows out of the conflict of your virtues. My brother, if you are fortunate, then you will have only one virtue and no more: thus you will go more easily over the bridge.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 5, “On Enjoying and Suffering the Passions”
Courage
Of all that is written, I love only what a man has written with his own blood.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 7, “On Reading and Writing”
Love >Madness > Reason
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 7, “On Reading and Writing”
Wisdom
Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent-thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 7, “On Reading and Writing”
The Self
He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
Hardship
He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
Agape
It is true: we love life not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 7, “On Reading and Writing”
HOPE
I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? … The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 7, “On Reading and Writing”
LIFE
This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return…One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
Dimension
This is my way; where is yours? – Thus I answered those who asked me “the way.” For the way – that does not exist.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
Affect
Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
Common place
That is mediocrity though it be called moderation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
Religion
Every tradition grows ever more venerable – the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
Faith
I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 7, “On Reading and Writing”
Unawareness
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 7, “On Reading and Writing”
Power
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
Objective
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 7, “On Reading and Writing”
Aphorisms
In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that, you need long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken, big and tall.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 7, “On Reading and Writing”
Complexity<>God
God is a thought which makes crooked all that is straight.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
Complexity<> Depth
The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep – into evil.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 8, “On the Tree on the Mountain”
Life<>’Death’
Their (the preachers of death) wisdom speaks thus: “Only a fool remains alive, but such fools are we! And that is surely the most foolish thing about life!”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 9, “On the Preachers of Death”
Awareness
I know of the hatred and envy of your hearts. You are not great enough not to know hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 10, “On War and Warriors”
Power & Goodness
But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangman and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had – power.
Part II, Chapter 29, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Idols
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness – as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne – and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 11, “On the New Idol”
Benevolence & Power
When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible – such descent I call beauty. And there is nobody from whom I want beauty as much as from you who are powerful: let your kindness be your final self-conquest.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part II, Chapter 13, “Those Who Are Sublime”
Joy
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous toy.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Ch.18, “Old and Young Women”
Power & Goodness
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! They are people of bad race and lineage; out of their countenances peer the hangman and the sleuth-hound. Distrust all those who talk much of their justice! Verily, in their souls not only honey is lacking. And when they call themselves ‘the good and just,’ forget not, that for them to be Pharisees, nothing is lacking but – power!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Ch.29, The Tarantulas (Similar statements are attributed to Goethe, and to Dostoevsky)
Error
And who among us poets has not adulterated his wine? Many a poisonous hodgepodge has been contrived in our cellars; much that is indescribable was accomplished there.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part II, Chapter 39, On Poets
Reality
Alas, there are so many things between heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed. And especially above the heavens: for all gods are poets’ parables, poets’ prevarications. Verily, it always lifts us higher – specifically, to the realm of the clouds: upon these we place our motley bastards and call them gods and overmen. For they are just light enough for these chairs – all these gods and overmen. Ah, how weary I am of all the imperfection which must at all costs become event! Ah, how weary I am of poets!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part II, Chapter 39, On Poets
Faith<>Will
Higher than all reconciliation must the Will will, which the will to power is.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part II, Ch.42 “Redemption”
Diversity
And whoever does not want to die of thirst among men must learn to drink out of all cups; and whoever would stay clean among men must know how to wash even with dirty water. And thus I often comforted myself, “Well then, old heart! One misfortune failed you; enjoy this as your good fortune.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part II, Ch.43, “On Human Prudence”
The Conscience
It is the stillest words that bring on the storm. Thoughts that come on doves’ feet guide the world.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part II, Ch.44, “The Stillest Hour”
The Conscious
Whence come the highest mountains? I once asked. Then I learned that they came out of the sea. The evidence is written in their rocks and in the walls of their peaks. It is out of the deepest depth that the highest must come to its height.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part III, Chapter 45, The Wanderer
Value
O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future – verily, not to a nobility that you might buy like shopkeepers and with shopkeepers’ gold: for whatever has its price has little value. Not whence you came shall henceforth constitute your honor, but whither you are going! Your will and your foot which has a will to go over and beyond yourselves – that shall constitute your new honor.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part III, Ch.56, “On Old and New Tablets”
The Truth
O my brothers, your nobility should not look backward but ahead! Exiles shall you be from all father- and forefather-lands! Your children’s land shall you love: this love shall be your new nobility – the undiscovered land in the most distant sea. For that I bid your sails search and search. In your children you shall make up for being the children of your fathers: thus shall you redeem all that is past. This new tablet I place over you.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part III, Ch.56, “On Old and New Tablets”
Free will
Free from what? As if that mattered to Zarathustra! But your eyes should tell me brightly: free for what?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, “On the Way of the Creator”
Message
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: First Part; Zarathustra’s Prologue (1883)
Education /”Bildung”
They have something of which they are proud. What do they call that which makes them proud? Education they call it; it distinguishes them from goatherds.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: First Part; Zarathustra’s Prologue (5) (1883)
The Bridge
Mankind is a rope tied between beast and superman — a rope over an abyss.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part, “Prologue,” section 4 (1883).
Cheerfulness
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Also sprach Zarathustra
Evolution
I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment… Behold, I teach you the overman. The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth!
Thus Spake Zarathustra
The Godly Human
Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks–those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
The Silence
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 2
The Whole
“Body am I, and soul” – so says the child. And why should one not speak like children?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 4, “On the despisers of the Body”
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