Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche  ## Metadata - Author: **Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche** - Full Title: Thus Spake Zarathustra - Category: #books ## Highlights - Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss. (Location 408) - Tags: #favorite #biology #philosophy - one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. (Location 439) - What is heavy? so asketh the load-bearing spirit; then kneeleth it down like the (Location 545) - There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation. (Location 797) - “He who seeketh may easily get lost himself. All isolation is wrong”: so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. (Location 1021) - Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution—it is called pregnancy. (Location 1064) - Tags: #feminism - Two different things wanteth the true man: danger and diversion. Therefore wanteth he woman, as the most dangerous plaything. (Location 1065) - When, however, ye have an enemy, then return him not good for evil: for that would abash him. But prove that he hath done something good to you. (Location 1093) - The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends. (Location 1222) - Tags: #knowledge #philosophy - Whatever cannot obey itself, is commanded. Such is the nature of living things. (Location 1661) - Tags: #rationality - Where is innocence? Where there is will to procreation. And he who seeketh to create beyond himself, hath for me the purest will. (Location 1777) - Tags: #business - “He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.”—ZARATHUSTRA, (Location 2121)