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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

You look up when you long for elevation. And I look down because I am elevated.

Who among you can laugh and be elevated at the same time?

Whoever climbs on the highest mountains laughs at all tragic plays and tragic seriousness.

<em>—Zarathustra, “On Reading and Writing”</em>

THIRD PART

FROM THE PAGES OF THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Introduction

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

ZARATHUSTRA’S PROLOGUE

ZARATHUSTRA’S SPEECHES

FIRST PART

ON THE THREE METAMORPHOSES

ON THE TEACHERS OF VIRTUE

ON THE AFTERWORLDLY

ON THE DESPISERS OF THE BODY

ON ENJOYING AND SUFFERING THE PASSIONS

ON THE PALE CRIMINAL

ON READING AND WRITING

ON THE TREE ON THE MOUNTAIN

ON THE PREACHERS OF DEATH

ON WAR AND WARRIORS

ON THE NEW IDOL

ON THE FLIES IN THE MARKETPLACE

ON CHASTITY

ON THE FRIEND

ON THE THOUSAND AND ONE GOALS

ON LOVE OF THE NEIGHBOR

ON THE WAY OF THE CREATOR

ON LITTLE OLD AND YOUNG WOMEN

ON THE ADDER’S BITE

ON CHILD AND MARRIAGE

ON VOLUNTARY DEATH

ON THE GIFT-GIVING VIRTUE

SECOND PART

THE CHILD WITH THE MIRROR

ON THE HAPPY ISLANDS

ON THE PITYING

THE PRIESTS

ON THE VIRTUOUS

ON THE RABBLE

ON THE TARANTULAS

ON THE FAMOUS WISE MEN

THE NIGHT SONG

THE DANCE SONG

THE GRAVE SONG

ON SELF-OVERCOMING

THE SUBLIME ONES

THE LAND OF CULTURE

ON IMMACULATE PERCEPTION

SCHOLARS

ON POETS

ON GREAT EVENTS

THE SOOTHSAYER

ON REDEMPTION

ON HUMAN PRUDENCE

THE STILLEST HOUR

THE WANDERER

ON THE VISION AND THE RIDDLE

ON INVOLUNTARY BLISS

BEFORE SUNRISE

ON THE VIRTUE THAT MAKES SMALL

ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES

ON PASSING BY

ON APOSTATES

THE RETURN HOME

ON THE THREE EVILS

ON THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY

ON OLD AND NEW TABLETS

THE CONVALESCENT

ON THE GREAT LONGING

THE OTHER DANCE SONG

THE SEVEN SEALS (OR : THE YES- AND AMEN-SONG)

FOURTH AND LAST PART

THE HONEY SACRIFICE

THE CRY OF DISTRESS

CONVERSATION WITH KINGS

THE LEECH

THE MAGICIAN

RETIRED FROM SERVICE

THE UGLIEST MAN

THE VOLUNTARY BEGGAR

THE SHADOW

AT NOON

THE GREETING

THE LAST SUPPER

THE HIGHER MAN

THE SONG OF MELANCHOLY

ON SCIENCE

AMONG DAUGHTERS OF THE WILDERNESS

THE AWAKENING

THE ASS FESTIVAL

THE SIGN

ENDNOTES

INSPIRED BY THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA

FOR FURTHER READING

THE WORLD OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE AND THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA

THE DRUNKEN SONG

COMMENTS & QUESTIONS

friedrich.nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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