The 2019 edition of The Gay Science brings back this five-part philosophy classic by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common. Originally published in 1882, The Gay Science features a large number of poems and is Nietzsche's most personal work as he elucidates amor fati, morality, and the truth. It is in this book Nietzsche first introduces the concepts of eternal recurrence and the death of god, two of Nietzsche's most influential ideas. The Gay Science is a rich collection of Nietzsche's most powerful and central philosophical discussions and a must-read for scholars of Nietzsche and philosophy. Memorable Quotes: "we are all growing volcanoes, which will have their hours of eruption: how near or how distant this is, nobody of course knows, not even the good God." "perhaps man will ever rise higher and higher from that point onward, when he no longer flows out into a God." "God is dead:— but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. And we we have still to overcome his shadow!"