Thus Spake Zarathustra

American  

noun

1. German Also sprach Zarathustra.  a philosophical work in poetic form (1883) by Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Thus Spake Zarathustra Cultural  

1. (1891) A book of philosophical reflections by Friedrich Nietzsche, written in the style of a sacred book. It puts forth Nietzsche's idea of the Superman.

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Example Sentences

Some connect the concept back to Nietzsche’s 1883 work of philosophy Thus Spake Zarathustra, with its idea of the Übermensch, a superior human whose existence would justify the species.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2016

Wagner – dressed, in a painful literalisation of Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, as Superman, complete with red cape – strums an electric guitar and sings about restoring the Teutonic godhead.

From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2013

What the viewers saw was a mishmash of posturings, clacking blocks, pings, bongs and recitals from Thus Spake Zarathustra.

From Time Magazine Archive

I well remember sitting in the woods in France reading Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, as many other German soldiers did, in a continuous state of exaltation.

From Time Magazine Archive

I might have given one of the great prose poems in Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra or a grand descriptive passage from Flaubert's novel Salammbo.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert