Zarathustra taught ditheism, that there are two opposed Gods, one of order and one of chaos, in eternal opposition. |
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More on this here, passim, especially the section about Zarathustra and the three inamorati. |
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This passion became even so intense that they started to attribute to Zarathustra nearly all sciences, including alchemy and astrology! |
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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. |
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It is here that he is more obviously preparing the ground for his breakthrough in values, which gets full-dress treatment in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. |
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In the meantime the biblical traditions tried repeatedly to recover and absorb Zarathustra into the Semitic universe. |
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Zarathustra used to invoke saviours who, like the dawns of new days, would come to the world. |
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It was a bit hard to tell because I was so engrossed by working on my new translation of Also Sprach Zarathustra. |
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On the other hand, as the presumed founder of astrology and magic, Zarathustra could be considered the arch-heretic. |
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Another all-time classic remains the use of Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey's opening credits. |
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The symbolism is explained nor in the Gathas or songs of Zarathustra, but in later Pahlavi and Persian books. |
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The religion of Iran before the time of Zarathustra is not directly accessible, for there are no reliable sources more ancient than those composed by or attributed to the prophet himself. |
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The first human couple was perverted by Ahriman, and it is only with the advent of Zarathustra, after 3,000 years, that Ahriman's supremacy came to an end. |
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The logic of Ancient Egypt can be understood only in considering that everything has an active bond with coherence, it is to some extent the logic of Zarathustra. |
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Lets take a simple example: if a book is titled Thus Spoke Zarathustrain English, and the German title is Also sprach Zarathustra, the system can begin to understand that thus spoke can be translated with also sprach. |
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The wise man Zarathustra said, with common sense that, in order to sleep well one must have waked a long time, and that is confirmed by the progress of neuroscience. |
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He is the author of The Music of Hans Pfitzner and Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner and a volume of essays on Words and Music. |
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