Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Thus Spake Zarathustra

A Book for All and None

Translated by Thomas Common

Table of Contents

First Part

Zarathustra’s Discourses

• I. The Three Metamorphoses
• II. The Academic Chairs of Virtue
• III. Backworldsmen
• IV. The Despisers of the Body
• V. Joys and Passions
• VI. The Pale Criminal
• VII. Reading and Writing
• VIII. The Tree on the Hill
• IX. The Preachers of Death
• X. War and Warriors
• XI. The New Idol
• XII. The Flies in the Marketplace
• XIII. Chastity
• XIV. The Friend
• XV. The Thousand and One Goals
• XVI. Neighbour-Love
• XVII. The Way of the Creating One
• XVIII. Old and Young Women
• XIX. The Bite of the Adder
• XX. Child and Marriage
• XXI. Voluntary Death
• XXII. The Bestowing Virtue

Second Part

• XXIII. The Child with the Mirror
• XXIV. In the Happy Isles
• XXV. The Pitiful
• XXVI. The Priests
• XXVII. The Virtuous
• XXVIII. The Rabble
• XXIX. The Tarantulas
• XXX. The Famous Wise Ones
• XXXI. The Night-Song
• XXXII. The Dance-Song
• XXXIII. The Grave-Song
• XXXIV. Self-Surpassing
• XXXV. The Sublime Ones
• XXXVI. The Land of Culture
• XXXVII. Immaculate Perception
• XXXVIII. Scholars
• XXXIX. Poets
• XL. Great Events
• XLI. The Soothsayer
• XLII. Redemption
• XLIII. Manly Prudence
• XLIV. The Stillest Hour

Third Part

• XLV. The Wanderer
• XLVI. The Vision and the Enigma
• XLVII. Involuntary Bliss
• XLVIII. Before Sunrise
• XLIX. The Bedwarfing Virtue
• L. On the Olive-Mount
• LI. On Passing By
• LII. The Apostates
• LIII. The Return Home
• LIV. The Three Evil Things
• LV. The Spirit of Gravity
• LVI. Old and New Tables
• LVII. The Convalescent
• LVIII. The Great Longing
• LIX. The Second Dance-Song
• LX. The Seven Seals (or, The Yea and Amen Lay)

Fourth and Last Part

• LXI. The Honey Sacrifice
• LXII. The Cry of Distress
• LXIII. Talk with the Kings
• LXIV. The Leech
• LXV. The Magician
• LXVI. Out of Service
• LXVII. The Ugliest Man
• LXVIII. The Voluntary Beggar
• LXIX. The Shadow
• LXX. Noon-Tide
• LXXI. The Greeting
• LXXII. The Supper
• LXIII. The Higher Man
• LXXIV. The Song of Melancholy
• LXXV. Science
• LXXVI. Among Daughters of the Desert
• LXXVII. The Awakening
• LXXVIII. The Ass-Festival
• LXXIX. The Drunken Song
• LXXX. The Sign

Catalogue of Titles

Prologue