Thus Spake Zarathustra. Translated by Thomas Common

A philosopher and linguist scholar, Nietzsche by age four was bereft of his Protestant father, who was a pastor, growing up among the influence of five women. Prior to his military service, from which he would get discharged because of an injury caused by mounting a horse, he was a talented poet and composer. He wrote several compositions inspired by Robert Schumann, and later sent commanding criticisms against Richard Wagner, whom he would befriend for only a short period of time before turning against him, in The Case of Wagner. Nietzsche also sent violent attacks on almost every 19^th century institution for the purpose of asserting the will to life. Though his work panned systematic philosophy in general, especially that of Hegel, and Judeo-Christian religion in particular, it however defied a defeating tone. Instead most of his works (for example, Beyond Good and Evil and Thus Spake Zarathustra) focused on how to live, championing the body, health and strength. His own life however would end in a bitter battle with a dormant tertiary syphilis.