In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.
— Friedrich Nietzsche Modern

God is dead, existentialism

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 'Zarathustra's Prologue', Section 3

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1883-1885

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