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Literature/Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883–1885Translated by Thomas Common (1909)

Nietzsche’s philosophical work in four parts, in which the prophet Zarathustra comes down from ten years of solitude in the mountains to teach of the Superman and the eternal recurrence of all things, in discourses, parables and songs.

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Contents

First Part

  1. Zarathustra’s Prologue
  2. IThe Three Metamorphoses
  3. IIThe Academic Chairs of Virtue
  4. IIIBackworldsmen
  5. IVThe Despisers of the Body
  6. VJoys and Passions
  7. VIThe Pale Criminal
  8. VIIReading and Writing
  9. VIIIThe Tree on the Hill
  10. IXThe Preachers of Death
  11. XWar and Warriors
  12. XIThe New Idol
  13. XIIThe Flies in the Market-Place
  14. XIIIChastity
  15. XIVThe Friend
  16. XVThe Thousand and One Goals
  17. XVINeighbour-Love
  18. XVIIThe Way of the Creating One
  19. XVIIIOld and Young Women
  20. XIXThe Bite of the Adder
  21. XXChild and Marriage
  22. XXIVoluntary Death
  23. XXIIThe Bestowing Virtue

Second Part

  1. XXIIIThe Child with the Mirror
  2. XXIVIn the Happy Isles
  3. XXVThe Pitiful
  4. XXVIThe Priests
  5. XXVIIThe Virtuous
  6. XXVIIIThe Rabble
  7. XXIXThe Tarantulas
  8. XXXThe Famous Wise Ones
  9. XXXIThe Night-Song
  10. XXXIIThe Dance-Song
  11. XXXIIIThe Grave-Song
  12. XXXIVSelf-Surpassing
  13. XXXVThe Sublime Ones
  14. XXXVIThe Land of Culture
  15. XXXVIIImmaculate Perception
  16. XXXVIIIScholars
  17. XXXIXPoets
  18. XLGreat Events
  19. XLIThe Soothsayer
  20. XLIIRedemption
  21. XLIIIManly Prudence
  22. XLIVThe Stillest Hour

Third Part

  1. XLVThe Wanderer
  2. XLVIThe Vision and the Enigma
  3. XLVIIInvoluntary Bliss
  4. XLVIIIBefore Sunrise
  5. XLIXThe Bedwarfing Virtue
  6. LOn the Olive-Mount
  7. LIOn Passing-by
  8. LIIThe Apostates
  9. LIIIThe Return Home
  10. LIVThe Three Evil Things
  11. LVThe Spirit of Gravity
  12. LVIOld and New Tables
  13. LVIIThe Convalescent
  14. LVIIIThe Great Longing
  15. LIXThe Second Dance-Song
  16. LXThe Seven Seals (or the Yea and Amen Lay)

Fourth and Last Part

  1. LXIThe Honey Sacrifice
  2. LXIIThe Cry of Distress
  3. LXIIITalk with the Kings
  4. LXIVThe Leech
  5. LXVThe Magician
  6. LXVIOut of Service
  7. LXVIIThe Ugliest Man
  8. LXVIIIThe Voluntary Beggar
  9. LXIXThe Shadow
  10. LXXNoontide
  11. LXXIThe Greeting
  12. LXXIIThe Supper
  13. LXXIIIThe Higher Man
  14. LXXIVThe Song of Melancholy
  15. LXXVScience
  16. LXXVIAmong Daughters of the Desert
  17. LXXVIIThe Awakening
  18. LXXVIIIThe Ass-Festival
  19. LXXIXThe Drunken Song
  20. LXXXThe Sign