Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody (Oxford World's Classics)
Into your eye I looked of late, O Life! And into the unfathomable I seemed then to be sinking. But you pulled me out with a golden fishing-rod; mockingly you laughed when I called you unfathomable. ‘So runs the talk of all fishes,’ you said; ‘What they do not fathom is unfathomable.
Into your eye I looked of late, O Life! And into the unfathomable I seemed then to be sinking. But you pulled me out with a golden fishing-rod; mockingly you laughed when I called you unfathomable. ‘So runs the talk of all fishes,’ you said; ‘What they do not fathom is unfathomable. ‘But changeable am I only and wild and in all things a woman, and not a virtuous one: ‘Even though you men call me “ the Profound” or “the Loyal”, “ the Eternal”, “ the Mysterious”. ‘But you men always confer on us your own virtues–ah, you virtuous ones!’
Note: Разговор между королем и королевойНитше использует пример рыбалки, как и эволюция
whoever cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the way of the living.
courage is the best of killers, courage that attacks: it even strikes death dead, for it says: ‘Was that life? Well then! One more time!
When planks span the water, when bridges and railings soar over the river: verily, then no one is believed who then says: ‘Everything is in flux.
For the soul that has the longest ladder and so reaches down deepest: how should the most parasites not sit on that?– – the most comprehensive soul, that can run and stray and roam the farthest within itself; the most necessary soul, that out of pleasure plunges itself into chance:– – the being soul, that dives into Becoming; the having soul, that wills to enter willing and longing– – that flees from itself and retrieves itself in the widest circle; the wisest soul, which folly exhorts most sweetly– – the soul that loves itself the most, in which all things have their streaming and counter-streaming and ebb and flood:– oh how should the highest soul not have the worst parasites?
there is often more bravery in restraining oneself and passing by: so that one might save oneself for a worthier enemy!
Human society: this is an experiment, thus I teach– a lengthy searching: but the search is for commanders!
If your Wisdom should ever desert you, ah! then my love too would desert you just as swiftly.