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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Thus Spake Zarathustra

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

So, when I came down to my library that evening dressed for dinner, I found him, still in morning clothes, with "Thus Spake Zarathustra" on his knees, and a bewildered expression on his face.

From Jaffery by William John Locke