This series of apothegms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathusanor Zoraster, contain the kernel of Nietzche's original thought. In it hestates that "God is dead" and that Christianity is decadent and leadsmankind into a slave morality concerned with the next life rather thanthis. "Ubermensch" or superman with a "will to power" who would dare to beimpulsive an be the creator of a new heroic morality which would set himapart from "the herd".