Nietzsche and Other Exponents of Individualism

Nietzsche proclaimed with great blast of trumpets, if we may so call his rhetorical display of phrases, that we need a revaluation of all values; but the best he could do was to...

"A fellow says: 'I own no school or college; No master lives whom I acknowledge; And pray don't entertain the thought That from the dead I e'er learned aught.' This, if I rightl...

On the morning of October 21, a clergyman of extremely liberal views, Rev. Marot, a member of the Consistory, was called to meet the witnesses of the ceremony at Stirner's room....

The reader will ask, "What next?" Probably afternoon and evening, and then night. In the night presumably "the old sun," i. e., the idea of Plato's true world, which (according...

"Thy self laugheth at thine 'I' and its prancings: What are these boundings and flights of thought? it saith unto itself. A round-about way to my purpose. I am the leading-strin...

ANTI-SCIENTIFIC TENDENCIES DEUSSEN'S RECOLLECTIONS EXTREME NOMINALISM A PHILOSOPHY OF ORIGINALITY THE OVERMAN ZARATHUSTRA A PROTEST AGAINST HIMSELF NIETZSCHE'S PREDECESSOR EGO-S...

"That I proceed with my outpourings considerably like a dilettante and in an immature manner, I know very well, but I am anxious first of all to get rid of the whole polemico-ne...

The assertion of selfhood and the hankering after originality make Nietzsche the exponent of the absolute uniqueness of everything particular, and he goes to the extreme of deny...

Nietzsche is like a schoolboy whose teacher is an inefficient pedant. He rebels against his authority and having had but poor instruction proclaims that the multiplication table...