Thus Spoke Zarathustra quotes
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Nietzsche opens with his protagonist Zarathustra coming down from a mountain after ten years of solitude — a deliberate inversion of the prophet's return.”
“Nietzsche's answer is the will to power , which he elaborates here through the famous chapter "On Self-Overcoming." The phrase is widely misread.”
“The Third Part is the densest section of the book and contains Nietzsche's most demanding thought: the eternal recurrence .”
“Nietzsche's move is to refuse to give them the answer they came for.”
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