Hitler dug him.
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Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second. from Nietzsche's The Wanderer and his Shadow,s. 323, R.J. Hollingdale transl. >>
In short, Nietzsche was a fruitcake. How did he get his start? HE WAS INSANE!!!!!
Born in Prussia, the son of a Luthern minister who died insane four years later, Nietzsche spent the years of chilhood with his mother, sister, and two maiden aunts. In 1858 he he entered boarding school, and in spite of poor health went on to study theology and classical philosophy at the University of Bonn, and then removed to Leipzig, where he became influenced by Kant, Schopenhauer, and the composer Richard Wagner. A year in the army in 1868 was cut short by illness, but his intellectual distinction was such that in 1869 he was appointed to the chair in philosophy at Basel, although at the time he was only 24 years old, and had none of the formal qualifications usually required. In 1879, Nietzsche resigned from the university because of his chronic ill healt, and on a modest pension devoted the rest of his time to writing.
In 1889 Nietzsche collapsed on a street in Turin, unable to bear the sight of a horse being flogged, and for the remaining years of his life was clinically insane. It is generally accepted that during the years towards his death (and after it) his sister and guardian, Elisabeth Förster Nietzsche, played a role in muddying the channels of Nietzsche's influence on German life.
MAJOR WORKS:
The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (1872)
Untimely Meditations (1873-1876)
Human, All too Human (1878-1880)
Mixed opinions and aphorisms (1879)
The Wanderer and his Shadow (1880)
The Dawn: Reflections o Moral Prejudices) (1881)
Die Fr?hliche wissenschaft (1882)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885).
Study Guide by Professor Paul Brians.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
The Genealogy of Morals (1887)
Die Goetzen-Daemmerung (1889)
The Case of Wagner (1895)
Der Antichrist (1895)
Ecce Homo (1908)
Good Place To Start (more good links at bottom)
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