than any other thinker. In his teaching alone do we meet with truthfulness
upheld as the highest virtue--i.e.: the reverse of the COWARDICE of the
'idealist' who flees from reality. Zarathustra had more courage in his
body than any other thinker before or after him. To tell the truth and TO
AIM STRAIGHT: that is the first Persian virtue. Am I understood?...The
overcoming of morality through itself--through truthfulness, the overcoming
of the moralist through his opposite--THROUGH ME--: that is what the name
Zarathustra means in my mouth."

ELIZABETH FORSTER-NIETZSCHE.

Nietzsche Archives,
Weimar, December 1905.




THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA.

FIRST PART.

ZARATHUSTRA'S DISCOURSES.

ZARATHUSTRA'S PROLOGUE.



1.

When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of