Ideas, characters and scenes
The book, browsed by what it is about. Each idea pulls up the passages where it lives, then what Nietzsche said elsewhere and what critics made of it. Library →
Doctrines
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Affirmation (Yea-saying, amor fati)4322 -
Backworlds and afterworldsmen166 -
Creation and the creator6513 -
Eternal recurrence2519 -
Fidelity to the earth and the body349 -
Intellectual conscience (truthfulness)1113 -
Nihilism (all is empty)299 -
Pity3116 -
Redemption of the past64 -
Revaluation of values (old and new tables)5242 -
Revenge and ressentiment2112 -
Self-overcoming379 -
The bestowing virtue293 -
The death of God3311 -
The last man82 -
The Superman (Übermensch)4327 -
Virtues from passions11 -
Voluntary death61 -
Will, freedom and the 'I will'227 -
Will to power1718
Motifs
Themes
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Christianity, priests and the need to worship2631 -
Friendship, neighbour-love and love of the farthest228 -
Love, chastity, woman and marriage202 -
Scholars, poets and the knowers404 -
Solitude8213 -
Teacher and disciples337 -
The herd, the rabble, the many-too-many5325 -
The higher men5215 -
The state as new idol85 -
War, the warrior and courage196
Characters
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Zarathustra513 -
The disciples61 -
The higher men (as a company)42 -
The eagle and the serpent23 -
The soothsayer15 -
Zarathustra's shadow14 -
The magician14 -
The two kings14 -
The ugliest man13 -
The last pope12 -
The conscientious in spirit (the leech-man)11 -
The voluntary beggar11 -
The ass10 -
The people in the market-place8 -
Life (personified)7 -
The youth on the hill6 -
The little old woman6 -
The stillest hour6 -
The fire-dog4 -
The dwarf4 -
The young shepherd3 -
The old saint in the forest3 -
Wild Wisdom (personified)3 -
The buffoon (jester)2 -
The rope-dancer2 -
The hunchback2 -
The laughing lion and the flock of doves2
Scenes
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The rope-dancer's fallZarathustra’s Prologue1 -
The speech in the market-placeZarathustra’s Prologue7 -
Burying the corpse; the resolve to seek companionsZarathustra’s Prologue4 -
Zarathustra addresses the sunZarathustra’s Prologue1 -
Meeting the saint in the forestZarathustra’s Prologue2 -
The youth under the treeThe Tree on the Hill7 -
The farewell and the golden staffThe Bestowing Virtue10 -
The night-songThe Night-Song5 -
The dance-song with LifeThe Dance-Song5 -
The soothsayer and the dream of the coffinsThe Soothsayer6 -
The stillest hour speaksThe Stillest Hour4 -
The shepherd and the black serpentThe Vision and the Enigma3 -
The gateway 'This Moment'The Vision and the Enigma2 -
Before sunriseBefore Sunrise6 -
The return home to solitudeThe Return Home8 -
Old and new tablesOld and New Tables4 -
The convalescent and the animals' recitalThe Convalescent10 -
The seven seals (the Yea and Amen song)The Seven Seals9 -
The cry of distressThe Cry of Distress6 -
NoontideNoontide5 -
The supperThe Supper4 -
The ass-festivalThe Ass-Festival6 -
The drunken song (midnight)The Drunken Song11 -
The signThe Sign6