Friedrich Nietzsche’s book Thus Spake Zarathustra begins with the protagonist, none other than Zarathustra himself, waking up one morning and realizing that 10 years of meditation have given him a ...

Thus do all believers; therefore all faith amounts to little.” He instructs his followers to leave him and become free thinkers: “I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only then… will I return to ...

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. That life is in truth the ...

Richard Strauss' iconic opening to Also Sprach Zarathustra evokes a sense of vastness and power, Marin Alsop says. I can't imagine a more stimulating conversation opener than "God is dead." Indeed, ...

Friedrich Nietzsche’s infamously dense philosophical novel Also Sprach Zarathustra was modestly described by its author as (in Walter Kaufmann’s 1966 translation): “the greatest present that has ever ...

Friedrich Nietzsche’s quote on love and friendship reveals why companionship, respect and emotional trust matter in happy ...