Zarathustra

NOUN
  1. Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism (circa 628-551 BC)
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How To Use Zarathustra In A Sentence

  • Zarathustra (in Persia) taught ditheism, that there are two opposed Gods, one of order and one of chaos, in eternal opposition.
  • The dialogue between Zarathustra and the Magician reveals pretty fully what it was that Nietzsche grew to loathe so intensely in Wagner, -- viz., his pronounced histrionic tendencies, his dissembling powers, his inordinate vanity, his equivocalness, his falseness. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none
  • Zarathustra interpreted the struggle between good and evil forces in ethical terms, and he believed that it pervaded the whole universe.
  • Zarathustra belonged to a pastoral tribe in northern Persia.
  • Just over a century ago, Zarathustra came down from his solitary wanderings in the mountains and addressed the people thus: ‘I teach you the overman’.
  • During the month of August 1881 my brother resolved to reveal the teaching of the Eternal Recurrence, in dithyrambic and psalmodic form, through the mouth of Zarathustra. Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • Since Zarathustra tells women that their greatest hope should be to bear the overman, Nietzsche is sometimes taken to exclude the concept of the noble woman.
  • It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who saith: 'Who is ungodlier than I, that I may enjoy his teaching?' Thus Spake Zarathustra
  • In Difference & Repetition in particular, Deleuze's sense of the term repetition is a product of his reading of Friedrich Nietzsche's eternal return in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Notes on 'Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_'
  • For such readers, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," with its incantatory calls for a race of overmen to establish a new morality that would "remain faithful to the earth," was the true Nietzsche. NYT > Home Page
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