Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

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“Zarathustra” is my brother’s most personal work; it is the history of his most individual experiences, of his friendships, ideals, raptures, bitterest disappointments and sorrows. Above it all, however, there soars, transfiguring it, the image of his greatest hopes and remotest aims. My brother had the figure of Zarathustra in his mind from his very earliest youth: he once told me that even as a child he had dreamt …

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• AuthorFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
• SourceProject Gutenberg #1998
• Length109,319 words
• Chapters58
• DictionaryNot yet generated
• CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
• Source checked2026-08-21

Contents

58 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

1. 01PART I. THE PROLOGUE.
2. 02Chapter I. The Three Metamorphoses.
3. 03Chapter II. The Academic Chairs of Virtue.
4. 04Chapter IV. The Despisers of the Body.
5. 05Chapter IX. The Preachers of Death.
6. 06Chapter XV. The Thousand and One Goals.
7. 07Chapter XVIII. Old and Young Women.
8. 08Chapter XXI. Voluntary Death.
9. 09Chapter XXII. The Bestowing Virtue.
10. 10Chapter XXIII. The Child with the Mirror.
11. 11Chapter XXIV. In the Happy Isles.
12. 12Chapter XXIX. The Tarantulas.
13. 13Chapter XXX. The Famous Wise Ones.
14. 14Chapter XXXIII. The Grave-Song.
15. 15Chapter XXXIV. Self-Surpassing.
16. 16Chapter XXXV. The Sublime Ones.
17. 17Chapter XXXVI. The Land of Culture.
18. 18Chapter XXXVII. Immaculate Perception.
19. 19Chapter XXXVIII. Scholars.
20. 20Chapter XXXIX. Poets.
21. 21Chapter XL. Great Events.
22. 22Chapter XLI. The Soothsayer.
23. 23Chapter XLII. Redemption.
24. 24Chapter XLIII. Manly Prudence.
25. 25Chapter XLIV. The Stillest Hour.
26. 26PART III.
27. 27Chapter XLVI. The Vision and the Enigma.
28. 28Chapter XLVII. Involuntary Bliss.
29. 29Chapter XLVIII. Before Sunrise.
30. 30Chapter XLIX. The Bedwarfing Virtue.
31. 31Chapter LI. On Passing-by.
32. 32Chapter LII. The Apostates.
33. 33Chapter LIII. The Return Home.
34. 34Chapter LIV. The Three Evil Things.
35. 35Chapter LV. The Spirit of Gravity.
36. 36Chapter LVI. Old and New Tables. Par. 2.
37. 37Chapter LVII. The Convalescent.
38. 38Chapter LX. The Seven Seals.
39. 39PART IV.
40. 40Chapter LXI. The Honey Sacrifice.
41. 41Chapter LXII. The Cry of Distress.
42. 42Chapter LXIII. Talk with the Kings.
43. 43Chapter LXIV. The Leech.
44. 44Chapter LXV. The Magician.
45. 45Chapter LXVI. Out of Service.
46. 46Chapter LXVII. The Ugliest Man.
47. 47Chapter LXVIII. The Voluntary Beggar.
48. 48Chapter LXIX. The Shadow.
49. 49Chapter LXX. Noontide.
50. 50Chapter LXXI. The Greeting.
51. 51Chapter LXXII. The Supper.
52. 52Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1.
53. 53Chapter LXXIV. The Song of Melancholy.
54. 54Chapter LXXV. Science.
55. 55Chapter LXXVII. The Awakening.
56. 56Chapter LXXVIII. The Ass-Festival.
57. 57Chapter LXXIX. The Drunken Song.
58. 58Chapter LXXX. The Sign.

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