Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None Audiobook (Free)

Zarathustra’ is my brother’s most personal function; it’s the background of his most individual encounters, of his friendships, ideals, raptures, bitterest disappointments and sorrows. Above it all, however, there soars, transfiguring it, the image of his best expectations and remotest seeks. My brother acquired the amount of Zarathustra in his mind from his extremely earliest youth: he once explained that even while a child he had dreamt of him. At different periods in his existence, he would contact this haunter of his about Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for everyone and non-e dreams by different names; ‘but in the end,’ he declares in a note on the subject, ‘I acquired to accomplish a PERSIAN the honour of identifying him with this creature of my fancy. Persians were the first to take a broad and comprehensive watch of history. Every group of evolutions, regarding to them, was presided over with a prophet; and every prophet got his ‘Hazar,’-his dynasty of one thousand years.’

All Zarathustra’s views, as also his personality, were early conceptions of my brother’s mind. Whoever reads his posthumously published writings for the years 1869-82 with care, will constantly meet with passages suggestive of Zarathustra’s thoughts and doctrines. For example, the ideal of the Superman is definitely put forth quite clearly in all his writings through the years 1873-75; and in ‘We Philologists’, the following remarkable observations happen:-

‘How is one able to praise and glorify a country all together?-Even among the Greeks, it had been the INDIVIDUALS that counted.’