Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Zarathustra’s Prologue Of the Three Metamorphoses Of the Chairs of Virtue Of the Afterworldsmen Of the Despisers of the Body Of Joys and Passions Of the Pale Criminal Of Reading and Writing Of the Tree on the Mountainside Of the Preachers of Death Of War and Warriors Of the New Idol Of the Flies of the Market-Place Of Chastity Of the Friend Of the Thousand and One Goals Of Love of One’s Neighbour Of the Way of the Creator Of Old and Young Women Of the Adder’s Bite Of Marriage and Children Of Voluntary Death Of the Bestowing Virtue The Child with the Mirror On the Blissful Islands Of the Compassionate Of the Priests Of the Virtuous Of the Rabble Of the Tarantulas Of the Famous Philosophers The Night Song The Dance Song The Funeral Song Of Self-Overcoming Of the Sublime Men Of the Land of Culture Of Immaculate Perception Of Scholars Of Poets Of Great Events The Prophet Of Redemption Of Manly Prudence The Stillest Hour The Wanderer Of the Vision and the Riddle Of Involuntary Bliss Before Sunrise Of the Virtue that Makes Small On the Mount of Olives Of Passing By Of the Apostates The Home-Coming Of the Three Evil Things Of the Spirit of Gravity Of Old and New Law-Tables The Convalescent Of the Great Longing The Second Dance Song The Seven Seals (or: The Song of Yes and Amen) The Honey Offering The Cry of Distress Conversation with the Kings The Leech The Sorcerer Retired from Service The Ugliest Man The Voluntary Beggar The Shadow At Noontide The Greeting The Last Supper Of the Higher Man The Song of Melancholy Of Science Among the Daughters of the Desert The Awakening The Ass Festival The Intoxicated Song The Sign
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All Themes Rethinking Morality The Superman and the Will to Power Death of God and Christianity Eternal Recurrence
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All Characters Zarathustra The Old Saint Tight-rope Walker The Ugliest Man
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All Terms Superman Will to Power Eternal Recurrence
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All Symbols Sun, Noon, Noontide Lion
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The Seven Seals (or: The Song of Yes and Amen) Summary & Analysis

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Zarathustra longs for eternity and for the wedding ring “of Recurrence.” He has never wanted to marry or beget children with a woman, unless it’s Eternity, for he loves her. If Zarathustra has ever shattered old law-tables, communed with the gods, laughed uninhibitedly, or lived according to his own will, how should he not lust for Eternity?
Zarathustra sings seven hymns to the Ring of Eternal Recurrence. The hymns are simply a poetic expression of the teaching of Eternal Recurrence, showing how fully Zarathustra embraces life and its recurrence. He can do this because his will to power is uninhibited.
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