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

Of late he made his entrance at concerts to the thundering strains of Thus Spake Zarathustra.

From Time Magazine Archive

A smaller band of Nietzscheans led by Novelist Thomas Mann acclaimed the Nietzsche of Thus Spake Zarathustra, the prophet-poet who looked piercingly about his Victorian world and pronounced all its accepted truths a sham.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a matter of fact, "Thus Spake Zarathustra", though it is unquestionably Nietzsche's opus magnum, is by no means the first of Nietzsche's works that the beginner ought to undertake to read.

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm