Thus Spoke Zarathustra Quotes

“I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

topic:Godbelief

“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

topic:menwomaneyes

“distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

topic:power

“There is an old illusion—it is called good and evil.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

topic:goodevil

“Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

topic:goodweakness

“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

topic:stupidityobedience

“For man is the cruellest animal.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

topic:evilmancruelty

“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

topic:evilmandarkness

“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

topic:writingspirit

“Still am I the richest and most to be envied—I, the lonesomest one!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

topic:loneliness