Friedrich Nietzsche
Saturday, 12 October 2024
A Book for All and None, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. It features the fictional character Zarathustra and was conceived whilst Nietzsche was composing 'The Gay Science'.
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)
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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)
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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
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That is mediocrity though it be called moderation.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
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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)
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I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 7, "On Reading and Writing"
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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885). Part I, Chapter 7, "On Reading and Writing"
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
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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"
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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"
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God is a thought which makes crooked all that is straight.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
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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"
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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"
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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Part I, Chapter 7, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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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"
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quote of the Day
Saturday, 12 October 2024If the Christian dogmas of a revengeful God, universal sinfulness, election by divine grace and the danger of eternal damnation were true, it would be a sign of weak-mindedness and lack of character not to become a priest, apostle or hermit and, in fear and trembling, to work solely on one's own salvation; it would be senseless to lose sight of one's eternal advantage for the sake of temporal comfort. If we may assume that these things are at any rate believed true, then the everyday Christian cuts a miserable figure; he is a man who really cannot count to three, and who precisely on account of his spiritual imbecility does not deserve to be punished so harshly as Christianity promises to punish him.Human, all too Human, p. 116, RJ Hollingdale transl.
