Author: Friedrich Nietzsche The novel opens with Zarathustra descending from his cave in the mountains after ten years of solitude. He is brimming with wisdom and love, and wants to teach humanity about the overman. He arrives in the town of the Motley Cow, and announces that the overman must be the meaning of the earth. Mankind is just a bridge between animal and overman, and...

 anonymous Once upon a time there was a golden songbird that lived in a beautiful garden. It spent all its days singing the loveliest songs to the honour of its maker and the delight of all the people who heard it. But the keeper of the garden, who was a foolish and greedy man, coveted the little songster, and one day he made a cunning ...

A German 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago. Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, The (London) Sunday Times reported. The Indian-born teen said he solved the problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries while working...

Peter De Rosa Illinois: Argus Communications, 1975 The story of a kind and fair God who was determined to create a world completely free of pain and misery. First, let Me introduce Myself. My name is Horgath, and I come from the distant regions of the gods. I was roving around the universe when I chanced on your beautiful, tiny planet Earth. I could not help overhearing the loud protest...

(Faust, Mephistopheles) Faust        A knock? Enter! Who’s plaguing me again? Mephistopheles I am Faust Enter! Mephistopheles Three times you must say it, then. Faust    So! Enter!    Mephistopheles     Ah, now, you please me. I hope we’ll get along together: To drive away the gloomy weather, I’m dressed like young nobility, In a scarlet gold-trimmed coat, In a little silk-lined cloak, A cockerel...

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists." "Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to...

Plato: For the greater good. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion...