THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA

by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Walter Kaufmann (Translator)

Prologue: Zarathustra speaks of the death of God and proclaims the overman. Faith in God is dead as a matter of
cultural fact, and any “meaning” of life in the sense of a
supernatural purpose is gone. Now it is up to man to
give his life meaning by raising himself above the animals
and the all-too-human. What else is human nature but a
euphemism for inertia, cultural conditioning, and what we
are before we make something of ourselves? Our socalled human nature is precisely what we should do well
to overcome; and the man who has overcome it Zarathustra
calls the overman.