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Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche
365 episodes · full original text

After ten years alone, Zarathustra returns to teach the Overman, the will to power and eternal recurrence. Nietzsche's wildest book, written like scripture. (Translated by Thomas Common.)

Every word as the author wrote it, split into 1-minute episodes.

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Zarathustra’s Prologue

The Three Metamorphoses

The Academic Chairs of Virtue

Backworldsmen

The Despisers of the Body

Joys and Passions

The Pale Criminal

Reading and Writing

The Tree On the Hill

The Preachers of Death

War and Warriors

The New Idol

The Flies in the Market-Place

Chastity

The Friend

The Thousand and One Goals

Neighbour-Love

The Way of the Creating One

Old and Young Women

The Bite of the Adder

Child and Marriage

Voluntary Death

The Bestowing Virtue

The Child With the Mirror

In the Happy Isles

The Pitiful

The Priests

The Virtuous

The Rabble

The Tarantulas

The Famous Wise Ones

The Night-Song

The Dance-Song

The Grave-Song

Self-Surpassing

The Sublime Ones

The Land of Culture

Immaculate Perception

Scholars

Poets

Great Events

The Soothsayer

Redemption

Manly Prudence

The Stillest Hour

The Wanderer

The Vision and the Enigma

Involuntary Bliss

Before Sunrise

The Bedwarfing Virtue

On the Olive-Mount

On Passing-By

The Apostates

The Return Home

The Three Evil Things

The Spirit of Gravity

Old and New Tables

The Convalescent

The Great Longing

The Second Dance-Song

The Seven Seals

The Honey Sacrifice

The Cry of Distress

Talk With the Kings

The Leech

The Magician

Out of Service

The Ugliest Man

The Voluntary Beggar

The Shadow

Noontide

The Greeting

The Supper

The Higher Man

The Song of Melancholy

Science

Among Daughters of the Desert

The Awakening

The Ass-Festival

The Drunken Song

The Sign

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