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3.79 AVERAGE
Don’t be a sheep. It’s alright to follow the morality of others but not blindly. Create your own morals, it’s okay to be in the minority. Be your own person.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
The first two books (parts) were great, but I lost interest in the last two parts. You could obviously see that Nietzsche wrote this book over many years and in different (mental health) stages of his life, so the coherence is lost. The idea itself is great and it certainly made me think about our existence, the death of God, and the concept of Superman.
it was alright. too misogynistic and idk big manly words for men, for me to enjoy
can you imagine being so far up your own *ss to take Zarathustra seriously
Will have to re read this one. The archaic prose mixed with the huge philosophical ideas in each paragraph made it hard to follow and grasp at certain points
I assigned myself this book as homework, having never read it. Maybe it’s the translation. Or maybe the book’s time is well past. But ugh, what a chore. Misogyny shines through above all.
This is a massive, dense book. And while I was intrigued by many of the concepts discussed in this book, I also feel like I missed a lot of the nuances that the author intended, so this will definitely be a reread at some point in the future.
Funny story... about 25 years ago, on a quiet afternoon in the hospital facility at which I worked in the laboratory, there were several of us hanging around the ER station (no patients were there at the time) conversing and having a general 'good' time discussing all manner of topics. At one point one of the nurses, to emphasize something she'd just said, put her hand up with index finger extended and with a flourish stated "I have thus spoken!". After a few silent seconds I calmly replied "Also Sprach Zarathustra". Everyone was silent again, followed by several persons saying "What?" and "What did you say?"... The doctor there that afternoon looked around at the company, looked over at me and stated "They'll understand... in about the year 2001." I looked at him, nodded my head slowly in his direction, and replied "Well played, sir. Well played", smiled, and turned and walked out of the room.
Anyway, having known that Richard Strauss's orchestral composition by that name, and that it was the overarching theme music used in Kubrick's movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" is probably not general knowledge, but both myself and the doctor that afternoon knew, and it was a good joke to have play out.
This was the first time that I've read this work by Nietzche. I've read excerpts from others, but never this full 'prose poem' (if that is what it is...).
I will agree with several of the commenters here on Goodreads... it's like the story of Jesus, but cooler.
It's something that needed to be read, to further my self-imposed, self-set, endeavor to liberally increase my breadth of literary and social knowledge.
It was my time to read it.
Anyway, having known that Richard Strauss's orchestral composition by that name, and that it was the overarching theme music used in Kubrick's movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" is probably not general knowledge, but both myself and the doctor that afternoon knew, and it was a good joke to have play out.
This was the first time that I've read this work by Nietzche. I've read excerpts from others, but never this full 'prose poem' (if that is what it is...).
I will agree with several of the commenters here on Goodreads... it's like the story of Jesus, but cooler.
It's something that needed to be read, to further my self-imposed, self-set, endeavor to liberally increase my breadth of literary and social knowledge.
It was my time to read it.
challenging
informative
slow-paced