Richard Spencer, leading light of America’s alt-right, said in an interview last year that he was “red-pilled” by reading the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The reference is to “The Matrix”; in the ...

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Friedrich Nietzsche’s book Thus Spake Zarathustra begins with the protagonist, none other than Zarathustra himself, waking up one morning and realizing that 10 years of meditation have given him a ...

There can be little doubt that Nietzsche is the most important figure in modern atheism, but you would never know it from reading the current crop of unbelievers, who rarely cite his arguments or even ...

This quote comes as a provocative reflection on Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of love as a force that transcends moral binaries, ...

If you’ve read the sullen German philosopher, you might not believe that Nietzsche would have wanted you to be happy. But author Nate Anderson has done what few of us who only know the phrase “God is ...

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. That life is in truth the ...

The Big Ideas series has for several months now explored the meaning of a number of familiar intellectual phrases, among them Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message", Hannah Arendt's "the ...

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes have lasting power. Even though the scholar and philosopher only lived to the age of 44, he left an impressive written legacy behind rife with musings and critiques.

How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold, by Philipp Felsch, trans. Daniel Bowles (Cambridge: Polity, 2024), $29.95 The most learned man I know suggests a comic figure. He is bald, short, and excitable. He ...