Best quotes from Thus Spake Zarathustra

Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent–thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in you.

Spirit is the life that itself strikes into life: through its own torment it increases its own knowledge -- did you know that before?

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

When Zarathustra was alone, however, he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

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.

Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.