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Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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 Nietzsche
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #1998
  • Length111,875 words · 7h 28m of reading
  • Chapters60
  • DictionaryIncluded
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-21

Contents

60 chapters

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

  1. 01FIRST PART. ZARATHUSTRA’S DISCOURSES.
  2. 02THIRD PART.
  3. 03PART I. THE PROLOGUE.
  4. 04Chapter I. The Three Metamorphoses.
  5. 05Chapter II. The Academic Chairs of Virtue.
  6. 06Chapter IV. The Despisers of the Body.
  7. 07Chapter IX. The Preachers of Death.
  8. 08Chapter XV. The Thousand and One Goals.
  9. 09Chapter XVIII. Old and Young Women.
  10. 10Chapter XXI. Voluntary Death.
  11. 11Chapter XXII. The Bestowing Virtue.
  12. 12Chapter XXIII. The Child with the Mirror.
  13. 13Chapter XXIV. In the Happy Isles.
  14. 14Chapter XXIX. The Tarantulas.
  15. 15Chapter XXX. The Famous Wise Ones.
  16. 16Chapter XXXIII. The Grave-Song.
  17. 17Chapter XXXIV. Self-Surpassing.
  18. 18Chapter XXXV. The Sublime Ones.
  19. 19Chapter XXXVI. The Land of Culture.
  20. 20Chapter XXXVII. Immaculate Perception.
  21. 21Chapter XXXVIII. Scholars.
  22. 22Chapter XXXIX. Poets.
  23. 23Chapter XL. Great Events.
  24. 24Chapter XLI. The Soothsayer.
  25. 25Chapter XLII. Redemption.
  26. 26Chapter XLIII. Manly Prudence.
  27. 27Chapter XLIV. The Stillest Hour.
  28. 28PART III.
  29. 29Chapter XLVI. The Vision and the Enigma.
  30. 30Chapter XLVII. Involuntary Bliss.
  31. 31Chapter XLVIII. Before Sunrise.
  32. 32Chapter XLIX. The Bedwarfing Virtue.
  33. 33Chapter LI. On Passing-by.
  34. 34Chapter LII. The Apostates.
  35. 35Chapter LIII. The Return Home.
  36. 36Chapter LIV. The Three Evil Things.
  37. 37Chapter LV. The Spirit of Gravity.
  38. 38Chapter LVI. Old and New Tables. Par. 2.
  39. 39Chapter LVII. The Convalescent.
  40. 40Chapter LX. The Seven Seals.
  41. 41PART IV.
  42. 42Chapter LXI. The Honey Sacrifice.
  43. 43Chapter LXII. The Cry of Distress.
  44. 44Chapter LXIII. Talk with the Kings.
  45. 45Chapter LXIV. The Leech.
  46. 46Chapter LXV. The Magician.
  47. 47Chapter LXVI. Out of Service.
  48. 48Chapter LXVII. The Ugliest Man.
  49. 49Chapter LXVIII. The Voluntary Beggar.
  50. 50Chapter LXIX. The Shadow.
  51. 51Chapter LXX. Noontide.
  52. 52Chapter LXXI. The Greeting.
  53. 53Chapter LXXII. The Supper.
  54. 54Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1.
  55. 55Chapter LXXIV. The Song of Melancholy.
  56. 56Chapter LXXV. Science.
  57. 57Chapter LXXVII. The Awakening.
  58. 58Chapter LXXVIII. The Ass-Festival.
  59. 59Chapter LXXIX. The Drunken Song.
  60. 60Chapter LXXX. The Sign.

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