Zarathustra Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“I love the forest.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Zarathustra answered: “I love mankind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Was that - life?" I will say to death. "Very well! Once more!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Yes, I recognize Zarathustra. His eyes are clear now, no longer does he sneer with loathing. Just see how he dances along!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Thereafter Zarathustra went on again for two hours, trusting to the path and the light of the stars:”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“again passed moons and years over Zarathustra's soul, and he heeded it not; his hair, however, became white.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How changed Zarathustra is! Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one. What do you plan to do in the land of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it. Semboyanku ialah Amor fati:…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ...…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“to be sure: except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into that kingdom of heaven [and Zarathustra pointed upward…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Zarathustra saw many lands and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Can you give yourself your own evil and your own good and hang your own will over yourself as a law? Can…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Now I love God: men, I do not love. Man is a thing too imperfect for me. Love to man would be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Free, dost thou call thyself? Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke. Art…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“WHEN Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And when they had walked a while together, Zarathustra began to speak thus: It rends my heart. Better than your words express…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Many lands saw Zarathustra, and many peoples: no greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than the creations of the loving ones—"good”…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And now we celebrate, in victory bound, The feast of feasts: Friend Zarathustra came, the guest of guests! Now laughs the world,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. It is possible that they…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he again looked at the people, and was silent. "There they stand," said he to his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas!…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche