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

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

Lucio confesses his love by passing her a copy of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, drawing her attention to a poem that ends on an oddly depressing note: "But every pleasure wants eternity�wants deep, deep eternity."

From Time Magazine Archive

The title of the book may be explained from a phrase in Thus Spake Zarathustra: “Verily, even the greatest I found—all-too-human.”

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm