Friedrich Nietzsche

A pastor’s son who would not keep the faith, a Greek scholar who would not keep the chair. Basel made him a professor at twenty-four. He wrote on tragedy and on Wagner, then broke with the maestro, left the university, and spent a decade in boarding houses: aphorisms, attacks on morality and pity and Germany, a genealogy of our pride, a case against his old idol, a last book about himself. Zarathustra is one voice. They argue. Turin ended the writing. What appeared in his name afterward is another story. Do not start with the slogan. Read the man who walked.