Thus Spake Zarathustra

Name: Thus Spake Zarathustra
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Year: 1883
Field: Philosophy
Licence: Public domain (Project Gutenberg, US)
Source: gutenberg
Length: about 110,249 words in 153 sections

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“Zarathustra” is my brother’s most personal work; it is the history of his most individual experiences, of his friendships, ideals, raptures, bitterest disappointments and sorrows. Above it all, however, there soars, transfiguring it, the image of his greatest hopes and remotest aims. My brother had the figure of Zarathustra in his mind from his very earliest youth: he once told me that even as a child he had dreamt of him. At different periods in his life, he would call this haunter of his dreams by different names; “but in the end,” he declares in a note on the subject, “I had to do a PERSIAN the honour of identifying him with this creature of my fancy. Persians were the first to take a broad and comprehensive view of history. Every series of evolutions, according to them, was presided over by a prophet; and every prophet had his ‘Hazar,’—his dynasty of a thousand years.”

All Zarathustra’s views, as also his personality, were early conceptions of my brother’s mind. Whoever reads his posthumously published writings for the years 1869–82 with care, will constantly meet with passages suggestive of Zarathustra’s thoughts and doctrines. For instance, the ideal of the Superman is put forth quite clearly in all his writings during the years 1873–75; and in “We Philologists”, the following remarkable observations occur:—

“How can one praise and glorify a nation as a whole?—Even among the Greeks, it was the INDIVIDUALS that counted.”

THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA · A BOOK FOR ALL AND NONE · 7 words
CONTENTS. · INTRODUCTION BY MRS FORSTER-NIETZSCHE. · THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA. · FIRST PART. · 101 words
SECOND PART. · 73 words
THIRD PART. · 63 words
FOURTH AND LAST PART. · 73 words
APPENDIX. · 9 words
INTRODUCTION BY MRS FORSTER-NIETZSCHE. · HOW ZARATHUSTRA CAME INTO BEING. · 4,647 words
ELIZABETH FORSTER-NIETZSCHE. · 5 words
THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA. · 4,751 words
I. THE THREE METAMORPHOSES. · 679 words
II. THE ACADEMIC CHAIRS OF VIRTUE. · 816 words
III. BACKWORLDSMEN. · 963 words
IV. THE DESPISERS OF THE BODY. · 588 words
V. JOYS AND PASSIONS. · 549 words
VI. THE PALE CRIMINAL. · 709 words
VII. READING AND WRITING. · 525 words
VIII. THE TREE ON THE HILL. · 884 words
IX. THE PREACHERS OF DEATH. · 543 words
X. WAR AND WARRIORS. · 585 words
XI. THE NEW IDOL. · 820 words
XII. THE FLIES IN THE MARKET-PLACE. · 941 words
XIII. CHASTITY. · 374 words
XIV. THE FRIEND. · 640 words
XV. THE THOUSAND AND ONE GOALS. · 730 words
XVI. NEIGHBOUR-LOVE. · 512 words
XVII. THE WAY OF THE CREATING ONE. · 861 words
XVIII. OLD AND YOUNG WOMEN. · 626 words
XIX. THE BITE OF THE ADDER. · 528 words
XX. CHILD AND MARRIAGE. · 632 words
XXI. VOLUNTARY DEATH. · 863 words
XXII. THE BESTOWING VIRTUE. · 1,435 words
THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA. SECOND PART. · 38 words
XXIII. THE CHILD WITH THE MIRROR. · 803 words
XXIV. IN THE HAPPY ISLES. · 799 words
XXV. THE PITIFUL. · 859 words
XXVI. THE PRIESTS. · 776 words
XXVII. THE VIRTUOUS. · 977 words
XXVIII. THE RABBLE. · 832 words
XXIX. THE TARANTULAS. · 968 words
XXX. THE FAMOUS WISE ONES. · 879 words
XXXI. THE NIGHT-SONG. · 597 words
XXXII. THE DANCE-SONG. · 770 words
XXXIII. THE GRAVE-SONG. · 991 words
XXXIV. SELF-SURPASSING. · 1,065 words
XXXV. THE SUBLIME ONES. · 758 words
XXXVI. THE LAND OF CULTURE. · 754 words
XXXVII. IMMACULATE PERCEPTION. · 882 words
XXXVIII. SCHOLARS. · 649 words
XXXIX. POETS. · 945 words
XL. GREAT EVENTS. · 1,210 words
XLI. THE SOOTHSAYER. · 1,151 words
XLII. REDEMPTION. · 1,542 words
XLIII. MANLY PRUDENCE. · 899 words
XLIV. THE STILLEST HOUR. · 959 words
THIRD PART. · 47 words
XLV. THE WANDERER. · 988 words
XLVI. THE VISION AND THE ENIGMA. · 1,516 words
XLVII. INVOLUNTARY BLISS. · 1,081 words
XLVIII. BEFORE SUNRISE. · 945 words
XLIX. THE BEDWARFING VIRTUE. · 1,662 words
L. ON THE OLIVE-MOUNT. · 927 words
LI. ON PASSING-BY. · 903 words
LII. THE APOSTATES. · 1,210 words
LIII. THE RETURN HOME. · 1,060 words
LIV. THE THREE EVIL THINGS. · 1,362 words
LV. THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY. · 1,214 words
LVI. OLD AND NEW TABLES. · 5,309 words
LVII. THE CONVALESCENT. · 1,964 words
LVIII. THE GREAT LONGING. · 824 words
LIX. THE SECOND DANCE-SONG. · 879 words
LX. THE SEVEN SEALS. · 1,013 words
FOURTH AND LAST PART. · 88 words
LXI. THE HONEY SACRIFICE. · 1,153 words
LXII. THE CRY OF DISTRESS. · 1,111 words
LXIII. TALK WITH THE KINGS. · 1,234 words
LXIV. THE LEECH. · 1,070 words
LXV. THE MAGICIAN. · 1,609 words
LXVI. OUT OF SERVICE. · 1,434 words
LXVII. THE UGLIEST MAN. · 1,551 words
LXVIII. THE VOLUNTARY BEGGAR. · 1,295 words
LXIX. THE SHADOW. · 1,074 words
LXX. NOONTIDE. · 912 words
LXXI. THE GREETING. · 1,808 words
LXXII. THE SUPPER. · 661 words
LXXIII. THE HIGHER MAN. · 2,797 words
LXXIV. THE SONG OF MELANCHOLY. · 933 words
LXXV. SCIENCE. · 929 words
LXXVI. AMONG DAUGHTERS OF THE DESERT. · 1,092 words
LXXVII. THE AWAKENING. · 1,016 words
LXXVIII. THE ASS-FESTIVAL. · 1,056 words
LXXIX. THE DRUNKEN SONG. · 2,205 words
LXXX. THE SIGN. · 1,019 words
APPENDIX. · 2,022 words
PART I. THE PROLOGUE. · 267 words
THE DISCOURSES. · Chapter I. The Three Metamorphoses. · 157 words
Chapter II. The Academic Chairs of Virtue. · 38 words
Chapter IV. The Despisers of the Body. · 79 words
Chapter IX. The Preachers of Death. · 23 words
Chapter XV. The Thousand and One Goals. · 77 words
Chapter XVIII. Old and Young Women. · 484 words
Chapter XXI. Voluntary Death. · 70 words
Chapter XXII. The Bestowing Virtue. · 127 words
PART II. · Chapter XXIII. The Child with the Mirror. · 228 words
Chapter XXIV. In the Happy Isles. · 107 words
Chapter XXIX. The Tarantulas. · 74 words
Chapter XXX. The Famous Wise Ones. · 51 words
Chapter XXXIII. The Grave-Song. · 25 words
Chapter XXXIV. Self-Surpassing. · 122 words
Chapter XXXV. The Sublime Ones. · 226 words
Chapter XXXVI. The Land of Culture. · 183 words
Chapter XXXVII. Immaculate Perception. · 115 words
Chapter XXXVIII. Scholars. · 88 words
Chapter XXXIX. Poets. · 60 words
Chapter XL. Great Events. · 146 words
Chapter XLI. The Soothsayer. · 47 words
Chapter XLII. Redemption. · 225 words
Chapter XLIII. Manly Prudence. · 224 words
Chapter XLIV. The Stillest Hour. · 96 words
PART III. · 71 words
Chapter XLVI. The Vision and the Enigma. · 489 words
Chapter XLVII. Involuntary Bliss. · 28 words
Chapter XLVIII. Before Sunrise. · 97 words
Chapter XLIX. The Bedwarfing Virtue. · 487 words
Chapter LI. On Passing-by. · 259 words
Chapter LII. The Apostates. · 137 words
Chapter LIII. The Return Home. · 352 words
Chapter LIV. The Three Evil Things. · 503 words
Chapter LV. The Spirit of Gravity. · 291 words
Chapter LVI. Old and New Tables. Par. 2. · 1,426 words
Chapter LVII. The Convalescent. · 1,087 words
Chapter LX. The Seven Seals. · 22 words
PART IV. · 281 words
Chapter LXI. The Honey Sacrifice. · 320 words
Chapter LXII. The Cry of Distress. · 167 words
Chapter LXIII. Talk with the Kings. · 129 words
Chapter LXIV. The Leech. · 166 words
Chapter LXV. The Magician. · 634 words
Chapter LXVI. Out of Service. · 208 words
Chapter LXVII. The Ugliest Man. · 360 words
Chapter LXVIII. The Voluntary Beggar. · 382 words
Chapter LXIX. The Shadow. · 263 words
Chapter LXX. Noontide. · 75 words
Chapter LXXI. The Greeting. · 248 words
Chapter LXXII. The Supper. · 55 words
Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1. · 694 words
Chapter LXXIV. The Song of Melancholy. · 39 words
Chapter LXXV. Science. · 220 words
Chapter LXXVI. Among the Daughters of the Desert. · 5 words
Chapter LXXVII. The Awakening. · 321 words
Chapter LXXVIII. The Ass-Festival. · 137 words
Chapter LXXIX. The Drunken Song. · 116 words
Chapter LXXX. The Sign. · 230 words
ANTHONY M. LUDOVICI. · 3 words

Thus Spake Zarathustra

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