Quotes from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“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, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“لا صلاح لأمة فسدت منابت أطفالها”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“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, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“أما الآن فقد حولت حبي إلى الله، وما الإنسان في نظري إلا كائن ناقص، فإذا ما أحببته قتلني حبه.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“عليك أن تصالح نفسك عشر مرات في النهار لانه اذا كان في قهر النفس مرارة فان في بقاء الشقاق بينك وبينها ما يزعج رقادك.

عليك أن تجد عشر حقائق في يومك كيلا تضطر إلى السعي ورائها في نومك فتبقى نفسك جائعة.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss.

A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an OVER-GOING and a DOWN-GOING.

I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.

I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

I love him who lives in order to know, and seeks to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeks he his own down-going.

I love him who labors and invents, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeks he his own down-going.

I love him who loves his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

I love him who reserves no share of spirit for himself, but wants to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walks he as spirit over the bridge.

I love him who makes his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

I love him who desires not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants no thanks and does not give back: for he always bestows, and desires not to keep for himself.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favor, and who then asks: "Am I a dishonest player?"--for he is willing to succumb.

I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.

I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

I love him who chastens his God, because he loves his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goes he willingly over the bridge.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things that are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causes his down-going.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowers over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

Lo, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drop out of the cloud: the lightning, however, is the SUPERMAN.--”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake 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.
It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the reading idlers.
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers--and spirit itself will stink.
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it even becometh populace.
He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
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.
The atmosphere rare and pure, danger near and the spirit full of a joyful wickedness: thus are things well matched.
I want to have goblins about me, for I am courageous. The courage which scareth away ghosts, createth for itself goblins--it wanteth to laugh.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“نحن نحب الحياة، لا لأننا تعودنا على الحياة، بل لأننا تعودنا على الحب”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.
Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können. (You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.)”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“هناك دوما شيء من الجنون في الحب. لكن هناك دوما شيء من العقل في الجنون أيضا”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

“إذا أساء إليك أحد فقل له : إنني أغفر لك جنايتك علي ، و لكني لا أقدر أن أغفــر لك ما جنيته على نفسـك بما فعلت !”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra

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