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Zarathustra

NOUN
  1. Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism (circa 628-551 BC)

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  • He often summons the image of a bridge, as he does here in his perhaps most definitive passage about the Overman: There it was too that I picked up the word "overman" by the way, and that man is something that must be overcome-that man is a bridge and no end: proclaiming himself blessed in view of his noon and evening, as the way to new dawns-Zarathustra's word of the great noon, and whatever else I hung up over man like the last crimson light of evening. Archive 2005-10-01
  • In Part IV, Zarathustra assembles in his cave a number of men who approximate, but who do not quite attain the position of the overman.
  • A classic example of enlargement is Nietzsche's encounter with Zarathustra, which made of the critic and aphorist a tragic poet and prophet. Another example is St.
  • Mithra like the rest of the gods and goddess of the Iranian Pantheon was stripped of his sovereignty, and all his powers and attributes were bestowed upon Zarathustra.
  • When Zarathustra had spoken thus unto the hunchback, and unto those of whom the hunchback was the mouthpiece and advocate, then did he turn to his disciples in profound dejection, and said: Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who saith: ‘Who is ungodlier than I, that I may enjoy his teaching?’” Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest religions and was founded by Zarathustra, who is believed to have lived in the ancient city of Bactria, now called Balkh and about 30 kilometres north of Cheshma-e-Shafa. News
  • More on this here, passim, especially the section about Zarathustra and the three inamorati (Life, Wisdom, and Eternity).
  • A classic example of enlargement is Nietzsche's encounter with Zarathustra, which made of the critic and aphorist a tragic poet and prophet. Another example is St.
  • So the thought of eternal return serves Zarathustra as, quote: one more reason for himself to be the eternal yes to all things: the incredible boundless yes sayer.
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