Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche appears to me the most interesting writer in German literature at the present time. Though little known even in his own country, he is a thinker of a high or...

But does such a state exist? perhaps some one will ask. Most of the smaller nations will be able to read the answer in the history of their native land. It will there be seen, i...

Then there is the doctrine of unselfishness. To be moral is to be unselfish. It is good to be so, we are told. But what does that mean--good? Good for whom? Not for the self-sac...

Nietzsche replaces Schopenhauer's _Will to Life_ and Darwin's _Struggle for Existence_ by the _Will to Power_. In his view the fight is not for life--bare existence--but for pow...

Beware of good men. They never speak the truth. For all that they call evil--the daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the deep disgust with men, the will and t...

The first essay itself, on the other hand, which was soon translated, brought me in a number of attacks, which gradually acquired a perfectly stereotyped formula. In an article...

The two papers on Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner appear to me to-day to contain self-confessions, above all promises to myself, rather than any real psychology of those two mas...

I am so relieved, so strengthened, in such good humour--I hang a little farcical tail on to the most serious things. What is the reason of all this? Have I not the good _north w...

But at the close of the year 1888 this dear and masterly mind began to be deranged. His self-esteem, which had always been very great, acquired a morbid character. His light and...

He allows the Germans no honour as philosophers: Leibniz and Kant were "the two greatest clogs upon the intellectual integrity of Europe." Just when a perfectly scientific attit...