Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra, is a work of philosophical fiction written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and published in four v
Title page of the first three-book edition
Nietzsche wrote in Ecce Homo that the central idea of Zarathustra occurred to him by a "pyramidal block of stone" on the shores of Lake Silvaplana.
Nietzsche's first note on the "eternal recurrence," written "at the beginning of August 1881 in Sils-Maria, 6000 ft above sea level and much higher above all human regards! -" Nachlass, notebook M III 1, p. 53.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Edvard Munch, 1906
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appo
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
…Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen), also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra, is a work of philosophical fiction written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and published in four volumes between 1883 and 1885. The protagonist is nominally the historical Zarathustra, more commonly called Zoroaster in the…
Nietzsche c. 1875
Nietzsche in 1861
Nietzsche in 1864
Arthur Schopenhauer strongly influenced Nietzsche's philosophical thought.