(through the man himself—a contemporary of Nietzsche's father's generation—with whom the young Nietzsche enjoyed an active friendship, as well as through Wagner's life and music). Nietzsche so excelled academically that he won the ...
" It is also the source of Nietzsche's famous (and much misconstrued) statement that "God is dead." Though this is essentially a work of philosophy, it is also a masterpiece of literature, a cross between prose and poetry.
Frequently misrepresented (and hijacked to dangerous purpose by Nazi intellectuals), Thus Spake Zarathustra is a work of profound brilliance and poetic mastery which still provides meaning in today's complex and changing world.
Nietzsche?s classic on the Superman, in a new, more accurate and more acute translation, recaptures his wordplay, emotional color and mock-Biblical tone, his boyish malice, cracked aphorisms, academic irreverence and gutter rhymes.
Since many of the book's ideas are also present in his other works, Zarathustra is seen to have served as a precursor to his later philosophical thought. With the book, Nietzsche embraced a distinct aesthetic assiduity.
night; but Zarathustra himself led the ugliest of men by the hand, to show him his world of night, and the great ... in themselves that they felt so well on earth; but the inwardness of night drew closer and closer to their hearts.
For the oil painting cycle by Lena Hades, see Also Sprach Zarathustra Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (German: Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a ...
A central irony of the text is that the style of the Bible is used by Nietzsche to present ideas of his which fundamentally oppose Judaeo-Christian morality and tradition.
An example of this is the use of words beginning über ("over" or "above") and unter ("down" or "below"), often paired to emphasise the contrast, which is not always possible to bring out in translation, except by coinages.
A central irony of the text is that the style of the Bible is used by Nietzsche to present ideas of his which fundamentally oppose Judaeo-Christian morality and tradition.
Gennem en række "taler", lagt i munden på den persiske vismand Zarathustra, beskriver Nietzsche sine tanker om herre-slavemoralen.
... winter she is most faithful unto me . With a wickedness do I begin every day : I mock at the winter with a cold bath ... silent winter - sky , which often stifleth even its sun ! Did I perhaps learn from it the long clear silence ? Or ...
... winter-bed. A poor bed warms me more than a rich one, for I am jealous of my poverty. And in winter she is most ... silent winter-sky, which often stifles even its sun! Did I perhaps learn from it the long clear silence? Or did it learn ...
" It is also the source of Nietzsche's famous (and much misconstrued) statement that "God is dead." Though this is essentially a work of philosophy, it is also a masterpiece of literature, a cross between prose and poetry.
An example of this is the use of words beginning über ("over" or "above") and unter ("down" or "below"), often paired to emphasise the contrast, which is not always possible to bring out in translation, except by coinages.
Reproduction of the original: Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable on the "death of God", and the "prophecy" of the Übermensch, which were first introduced in The Gay Science.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the...
... schöner wird sie immer und zarter, aber inwendig härter und tragsamer, je mehr sie aufsteigt. Ja, du Erhabener, einst sollst du noch schön sein und deiner eignen Schönheit den Spiegel vorhalten. Dann wird deine Seele vor schaudern ...