title: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All
author:  Friedrich Nietzsche 
description: The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that god is dead, Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.
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  THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
  The son of a Lutheran clergyman, Friedrich Nietz-
  sche was born
  at Rocken,
  Saxony,
  in
  1844. He
  attended the famous Pforta School and the univer-
  sities
  at Bonn
  and
  Leipzig,
  where he
  studied
  philology and was profoundly influenced by
  his
  reading of Schopenhauer. At twenty-three he was
  appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basel
  University and, while there, made and broke his
  friendship with Wagner, served as an ambulance
  orderly in the Franco-Prussian War, and published
  The Birth of Tragedy, Untimely Meditations, and
  the
  first two
  parts
  of Human,
  All Too Human.
  Forced to
  retire in 1S79 because of nervous
  dis-
  turbances and supported (though poorly) by his
  university pension, he lived mainly in France, Italy,
  and
  Switzerland,
  publishing
  the
  third
  part
  of
  Human, All Too Human; The Daicn; Thus Spoke
  Zarathustra; The 