Thus Spake Zarathustra
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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
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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
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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
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