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Thus Spake Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche
The prophet Zarathustra descends from his mountain — Nietzsche's masterwork.

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Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · Chapter I. The Three Metamorphoses.
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This opening discourse is a parable in which Zarathustra discloses the mental development of all creators of new values. It is the story of a life which reaches its consummation in attaining to a second ingenuousness or in returning to childhood. Nietzsche…

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Table of contents

  1. PrologueFree
  2. Chapter I. The Three Metamorphoses.Free
  3. Chapter XXI. Voluntary Death.Free
  4. Chapter XXIV. In the Happy Isles.Free
  5. Chapter XXXVI. The Land of Culture.Free
  6. Chapter XLIII. Manly Prudence.Free
  7. Chapter XLIV. The Stillest Hour.Free
  8. Chapter XLVI. The Vision and the Enigma.Free
  9. Chapter XLVII. Involuntary Bliss.Free
  10. Chapter LI. On Passing-by.Free
  11. Chapter LII. The Apostates.Free
  12. Chapter LIV. The Three Evil Things.Free
  13. Chapter LV. The Spirit of Gravity.Free
  14. Chapter LVI. Old and New Tables. Par. 2.Free
  15. Chapter LVII. The Convalescent.Free
  16. Chapter LX. The Seven Seals.Free
  17. Chapter LXI. The Honey Sacrifice.Free
  18. Chapter LXII. The Cry of Distress.Free
  19. Chapter LXVI. Out of Service.Free
  20. Chapter LXVII. The Ugliest Man.Free
  21. Chapter LXVIII. The Voluntary Beggar.Free
  22. Chapter LXIX. The Shadow.Free
  23. Chapter LXX. Noontide.Free
  24. Chapter LXXII. The Supper.Free
  25. Chapter LXXIV. The Song of Melancholy.Free
  26. Chapter LXXVI. Among the Daughters of the Desert.Free
  27. Chapter LXXVIII. The Ass-Festival.Free

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