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| Zarathustra's Prologue | 1 | |
| Part 1 | ||
| I | The Three Metamorphoses | 13 |
| II | The Academic Chairs of Virtue | 14 |
| III | Backworldsmen | 16 |
| IV | The Despisers of the Body | 19 |
| V | Joys and Passions | 20 |
| VI | The Pale Criminal | 22 |
| VII | Reading and Writing | 23 |
| VIII | The Tree on the Hill | 25 |
| IX | The Preachers of Death | 27 |
| X | War and Warriors | 28 |
| XI | The New Idol | 29 |
| XII | The Flies in the Market-place | 31 |
| XIII | Chastity | 34 |
| XIV | The Friend | 35 |
| XV | The Thousand and One Goals | 36 |
| XVI | Neighbour-Love | 38 |
| XVII | The Way of the Creating One | 39 |
| XVIII | Old and Young Women | 41 |
| XIX | The Bite of the Adder | 43 |
| XX | Child and Marriage | 44 |
| XXI | Voluntary Death | 46 |
| XXII | The Bestowing Virtue | 48 |
| Part 2 | ||
| XXIII | The Child with the Mirror | 53 |
| XXIV | In the Happy Isles | 55 |
| XXV | The Pitiful | 57 |
| XXVI | The Priests | 59 |
| XXVII | The Virtuous | 61 |
| XXVIII | The Rabble | 63 |
| XXIX | The Tarantulas | 65 |
| XXX | The Famous Wise Ones | 68 |
| XXXI | The Night-Song | 70 |
| XXXII | The Dance-Song | 71 |
| XXXIII | The Grave-Song | 73 |
| XXXIV | Self-Surpassing | 76 |
| XXXV | The Sublime Ones | 78 |
| XXXVI | The Land of Culture | 80 |
| XXXVII | Immaculate Perception | 82 |
| XXXVIII | Scholars | 84 |
| XXXIX | Poets | 86 |
| XL | Great Events | 88 |
| XLI | The Soothsayer | 91 |
| XLII | Redemption | 93 |
| XLIII | Manly Prudence | 97 |
| XLIV | The Stillest Hour | 99 |
| Part 3 | ||
| XLV | The Wanderer | 103 |
| XLVI | The Vision and the Enigma | 106 |
| XLVII | Involuntary Bliss | 110 |
| XLVIII | Before Sunrise | 112 |
| XLIX | The Bedwarfing Virtue | 115 |
| L | On the Olive-Mount | 119 |
| LI | On Passing-by | 121 |
| LII | The Apostates | 124 |
| LIII | The Return Home | 127 |
| LIV | The Three Evil Things | 130 |
| LV | The Spirit of Gravity | 133 |
| LVI | Old and New Tables | 136 |
| LVII | The Convalescent | 152 |
| LVIII | The Great Longing | 156 |
| LIX | The Second Dance Song | 159 |
| LX | The Seven Seals | 162 |
| Part 4 and Last | ||
| LXI | The Honey Sacrifice | 166 |
| LXII | The Cry of Distress | 169 |
| LXIII | Talk with the Kings | 172 |
| LXIV | The Leech | 175 |
| LXV | The Magician | 177 |
| LXVI | Out of Service | 183 |
| LXVII | The Ugliest Man | 186 |
| LXVIII | The Voluntary Beggar | 190 |
| LXIX | The Shadow | 193 |
| LXX | Noontide | 195 |
| LXXI | The Greeting | 198 |
| LXXII | The Supper | 202 |
| LXXIII | The Higher Man | 203 |
| LXXIV | The Song of Melancholy | 212 |
| LXXV | Science | 215 |
| LXXVI | Among Daughters of the Desert | 218 |
| LXXVII | The Awakening | 222 |
| LXXVIII | The Ass-Festival | 225 |
| LXXIX | The Drunken Song | 228 |
| LXXX | The Sign | 234 |
| Appendix | Notes on Thus Spake Zarathustra | 237 |
Anonymous
Posted November 18, 2000
Thomas Common's origional translation is far superior to the later ones, both in the beauty of the wording and closeness to the German text. Unfortuately, this version officiously and unforgivably does-away with Common's 'archaic'English (e.g.'thou' and 'methinks', etc) and some of his more uncommon words (e.g.'abut'and 'gay'), thereby very much spoiling it. If people can't realise that 'gay' in this context doen't actually refer to homesexual, then they really shouldn't be reading such a book since they certainly won't understand Nietzsche's thoughts. When is one supposed to use words such as 'sepulchre' and 'abut' if not in a deep, poetic book like this? Instead of Ludovici's excellent notes this version substitutes a deeply patronising and whats more egregiously ignorant essay by the same man (I understand one is not allowed to use expletives) who spoilt Commons text. I sincerely advise that you buy the (5 star!)Dover thrift edition instead which thankfully (I believe) retains both Common's origional text and Ludovici's essay - plus its only a fraction of the price!
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Posted May 7, 2006
I'm now orthodox Catholic(former agnostic/atheist), however i have many atheist friends, and they all rave about Nietzsche. I must say Nietzsche is provocative, and a very talented as a writter, however i wasen't very impressed with his philosophy initself, i thought it was an interesting story, however Nietzsche seemed to fail to actually prove his contentions(to a sufficiant degree). I thought it was interesting that he chose for his character to claim 'God is dead' AFTER talking with the hermit, rather than choosing to creat a socratic style diologue(although i know he beleived Plato to be boring). His overman(or superman) theory is interesting, however i think Dostoevskies 'Crime and Punishment' refutes the pragmatic nature of the idea, and the validity of the idea itself. Not to ramble:). Intresting, provocative book, but i felt it failed to live up to its reputation, Id'd give it three stars, two because of Nietzschies' (amazing)talent as a writter, 1 for being provocative, but he looses two because i fell his philosophy is erronious
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Posted October 7, 2012
Ashpaw]*[ He sits sheathing and unsheathing his claws.
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Posted October 7, 2012
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Posted October 7, 2012
She stumbles off, coughing and rasping as she heads home.-Springblaze
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Posted October 7, 2012
He snaps the dark cat's neck and trots out.-Frostbite
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Posted October 7, 2012
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Posted October 6, 2012
Yes and i dont like how things r working in this clan please meet me at dark empire for more info if thats ok lease come there are two other cats there too hope to c u there
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Posted October 5, 2012
Hides in the shadows
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Posted October 1, 2012
She stalks in the forest, she black paws making no sound, when the time is right, she leaps up, she strong front pws landing on a wild turkey, the large bird strugles, but she ends its life with a quick bite.
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Posted October 14, 2012
A pair of golden eyes watches from the shadows
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Posted April 10, 2012
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A book like this comes along only once in a rare while do not miss it! Highly Recommended!
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Posted July 28, 2003
One of Nietzsche's top 3 books, I must disagree with the review written by the 17 year old above who fails to understand the fluidity of language and the reason why archaisms are just that. Who reads old english today anyway? (for me, the original of Beowulf was very difficult, but Seamus Heaney's modern interpretation is wonderful!) As Nietzsche would say, 'Den weg namlich -- den gibt es nicht!'
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Posted November 21, 2011
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Overview
A 19th-century literary masterpiece, tremendously influential in the arts and in philosophy, uses the Persian religious leader Zarathustra to voice the author's views, including the introduction of the controversial doctrine of the Übermensch, or "superman," a term later perverted by Nazi propagandists. A passionate, quasi-biblical style is employed to inspire readers.