Zarathustra

Character in Thus Spoke Zarathustra From: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The prophet and main character who delivers philosophical discourses and aphorisms

338 quotes

"I praise my nature, and I praise my destiny."
"Even the most solitary of you must give birth to a child and transcend themselves."
Family
"Love is still the most dangerous thing to speak of."
Love
"The overman will be the meaning of the earth."
Philosophy
"I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome."
Leadership
"Ah, you wise men, why did you not go into the woods and leave society for a while?"
Solitude
"The creator must create values, otherwise he is empty."
Creativity
"I am not a light. I am not a guide. I do but speak truth."
Truth
"Pursue your path and let people talk."
Courage
"Life must ever overcome itself anew."
Change
"Do not despise life, even in its pain; for all that lives seeks to live and will overcome pain."
Perseverance
"A man's maturity consists in having found the serious answer to his own existence."
Wisdom
"You must become the person you were always meant to be."
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
Truth
"In the end one experiences only oneself."
Philosophy
"When you have a why for life, you can bear almost any how."
Motivation
"Every creature is naturally drawn to what will strengthen it."
Nature
"Dance with death! Be not afraid, but rather embrace the eternal return."
Death
"The good and the just would like to crucify those who create their own virtue."
Justice
"Better to die standing than to live kneeling."
Strength
"I love those who give all and have nothing left to give but themselves."
Kindness
"I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome."
Philosophy
"One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Creativity
"The wasteland grows: woe to him who harbors wastelands!"
Wisdom
"I love those who do not first look behind them, but look ahead."
Hope
"Beware of those in whom the desire to punish is powerful."
Justice
"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters."
Politics
"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Overman."
Philosophy
"They call me a murderer who speaks the truth."
Truth
"How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can it dare?"
Knowledge