Thus spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Exclusive Classics)

“If you want to rise high, use your own legs! Don’t let yourself be carried, don’t sit on other people’s shoulders and heads!”

“A book for everyone and for no one” is the subtitle of the legendary philosophical novel “Thus Spoke Zarathustra.” Friedrich Nietzsche put into the mouth of a wandering thinker his ideas about people, nature, love and society. He saw the meaning of existence in the desire to become an ideal being with a tremendous will to live and create history. A being for whom himself is at the center of everything. A being capable of accepting the law of constant development in a spiral, repetition of what has already been experienced - both happiness and hardship. Nietzsche contrasted this approach with the traditional idea of ​​progressive progress, which dominated European philosophy.

The novel caused a storm of opposing opinions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. “What kind of society is it that such a madman, and an evil madman, is recognized as a teacher?” - Leo Tolstoy was perplexed. And the book inspired composer Richard Strauss to write the famous symphonic poem, the book of the same name