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Thus Spoke Zarathustra quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

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“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep—into the evil.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“For man is the cruellest animal.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I love him who seeketh to create beyond himself, and thus succumbeth.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Your bad love to yourselves maketh solitude a prison to you.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I learned to walk; since then have I let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Willing emancipateth: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And only for creating shall ye learn!” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“For this is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Thus passed with the lonesome one months and years; his wisdom meanwhile increased, and caused him pain by its abundance.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I know you. In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“There is an old illusion—it is called good and evil.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Marriage: so call I the will of the twain to create the one that is more than those who created it.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws!” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route thou must have long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealousy; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so. But the wind, which we see not, troubleth and bendeth it as it listeth. We are sorest bent and troubled by invisible hands.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“If ye believed more in life, then would ye devote yourselves less to the momentary.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Ye shall only have enemies to be hated, but not enemies to be despised.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Still am I the richest and most to be envied—I, the lonesomest one!” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“And just look at these men: their eye saith it—they know nothing better on earth than to lie with a woman.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“man is something that is to be surpassed.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Creating—that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“this secret spake Life herself unto me . . . 'I am that which must ever surpass itself'. ” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Full of clattering buffoons is the market-place,—and the people glory in their great men! These are for them the masters of the hour.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“the worst enemy thou canst meet, wilt thou thyself always be” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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