Thus Spake Zarathustra

Thus Spake Zarathustra

By Friedrich Nietzsche.

Translated by Thomas Common.

Table of Contents

1. Titlepage
2. Imprint
3. Part I: Zarathustra’s Discourses
   1. Zarathustra’s Prologue
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
      9. IX
      10. X
   2. I: The Three Metamorphoses
   3. II: The Academic Chairs of Virtue
   4. III: Backworldsmen
   5. IV: The Despisers of the Body
   6. V: Joys and Passions
   7. VI: The Pale Criminal
   8. VII: Reading and Writing
   9. VIII: The Tree on the Hill
   10. IX: The Preachers of Death
   11. X: War and Warriors
   12. XI: The New Idol
   13. XII: The Flies in the Marketplace
   14. XIII: Chastity
   15. XIV: The Friend
   16. XV: The Thousand and One Goals
   17. XVI: Neighbour-Love
   18. XVII: The Way of the Creating One
   19. XVIII: Old and Young Women
   20. XIX: The Bite of the Adder
   21. XX: Child and Marriage
   22. XXI: Voluntary Death
   23. XXII: The Bestowing Virtue
       1. I
       2. II
       3. III
4. Part II
   1. XXIII: The Child with the Mirror
   2. XXIV: In the Happy Isles
   3. XXV: The Pitiful
   4. XXVI: The Priests
   5. XXVII: The Virtuous
   6. XXVIII: The Rabble
   7. XXIX: The Tarantulas
   8. XXX: The Famous Wise Ones
   9. XXXI: The Night-Song
   10. XXXII: The Dance-Song
   11. XXXIII: The Grave-Song
   12. XXXIV: Self-Surpassing
   13. XXXV: The Sublime Ones
   14. XXXVI: The Land of Culture
   15. XXXVII: Immaculate Perception
   16. XXXVIII: Scholars
   17. XXXIX: Poets
   18. XL: Great Events
   19. XLI: The Soothsayer
   20. XLII: Redemption
   21. XLIII: Manly Prudence
   22. XLIV: The Stillest Hour
5. Part III
   1. XLV: The Wanderer
   2. XLVI: The Vision and the Enigma
      1. I
      2. II
   3. XLVII: Involuntary Bliss
   4. XLVIII: Before Sunrise
   5. XLIX: The Bedwarfing Virtue
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
   6. L: On the Olive-Mount
   7. LI: On Passing-By
   8. LII: The Apostates
      1. I
      2. II
   9. LIII: The Return Home
   10. LIV: The Three Evil Things
       1. I
       2. II
   11. LV: The Spirit of Gravity
       1. I
       2. II
   12. LVI: Old and New Tables
       1. I
       2. II
       3. III
       4. IV
       5. V
       6. VI
       7. VII
       8. VIII
       9. IX
       10. X
       11. XI
       12. XII
       13. XIII
       14. XIV
       15. XV
       16. XVI
       17. XVII
       18. XVIII
       19. XIX
       20. XX
       21. XXI
       22. XXII
       23. XXIII
       24. XXIV
       25. XXV
       26. XXVI
       27. XXVII
       28. XXVIII
       29. XXIX
       30. XXX
   13. LVII: The Convalescent
       1. I
       2. II
   14. LVIII: The Great Longing
   15. LIX: The Second Dance-Song
       1. I
       2. II
       3. III
   16. LX: The Seven Seals
       1. I
       2. II
       3. III
       4. IV
       5. V
       6. VI
       7. VII
6. Part IV
   1. LXI: The Honey Sacrifice
   2. LXII: The Cry of Distress
   3. LXIII: Talk with the Kings
      1. I
      2. II
   4. LXIV: The Leech
   5. LXV: The Magician
      1. I
      2. II
   6. LXVI: Out of Service
   7. LXVII: The Ugliest Man
   8. LXVIII: The Voluntary Beggar
   9. LXIX: The Shadow
   10. LXX: Noontide
   11. LXXI: The Greeting
   12. LXXII: The Supper
   13. LXXIII: The Higher Man
       1. I
       2. II
       3. III
       4. IV
       5. V
       6. VI
       7. VII
       8. VIII
       9. IX
       10. X
       11. XI
       12. XII
       13. XIII
       14. XIV
       15. XV
       16. XVI
       17. XVII
       18. XVIII
       19. XIX
       20. XX
   14. LXXIV: The Song of Melancholy
       1. I
       2. II
       3. III
   15. LXXV: Science
   16. LXXVI: Among Daughters of the Desert
       1. I
       2. II
   17. LXXVII: The Awakening
       1. I
       2. II
   18. LXXVIII: The Ass-Festival
       1. I
       2. II
       3. III
   19. LXXIX: The Drunken Song
       1. I
       2. II
       3. III
       4. IV
       5. V
       6. VI
       7. VII
       8. VIII
       9. IX
       10. X
       11. XI
       12. XII
   20. LXXX: The Sign
7. Colophon
8. Uncopyright

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Part I

Zarathustra’s Discourses

Zarathustra’s Prologue

I

When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed⁠—and rising one morning with the rosy dawn, he went before the sun, and spake thus unto it:

Thou great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!

For ten years hast thou climbed hither unto my cave: thou wouldst have wearied of thy light and of the journey, had it not been for me, mine eagle, and my serpent.

But we awaited thee every morning, took from thee thine overflow and blessed thee for it.

Lo! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it.

I would fain bestow and distribute, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

Therefore must I descend into the deep: as thou doest in the evening, when