Thus Spoke Zarathustra By Friedrich Nietzsche

The introduction to this book is writen by a husband and wife who are both teachers at the University of Texas at Austen. It is a great introduction which summarizes the whole book. Buy this book just for that introduction which gives an excellent biography of the Nietzsche and the issues he was dealing with. I had heard about Nietzsche when I was scared of reading books. Then about a year ago I had picked up Nietzsche for Dummies hoping to understand what this guy was about. I liked some of the cartoons on the pages and facts about him, but I never really got excited.

I liked the idea of Superman and having lots of will power and doing powerful things. But I felt I already knew those things. What kept me away from reading Nietzsche was this ignorant assumption that he had nothing new to give me.


But now I feel lucky and excited to have this book and at night I read it with a happy heart. I think the contribution that intelligent people make for our world is that they begin where the obvious ends. In his book Nietzsche, deals with a feeling that I have been experiencing. After you stop believing in God, there is a sense of loss. And there is a feeling that now that God is gone, all purpose is gone with him. And there is this period of being simply stunned or being philosophically shell shocked. I sometimes feel, ’whats the point of it all?’ when no one is counting the Sawab, when there is no grand jury of prophets in the sky, when there are no angels sitting on my shoulder or paradise waiting after I die.

But Nietzsche starts from these very feelings. Where my imagination ended this book begins.

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