Nietzsche: Philosophy in an Hour

appears to have abstained from sexual activity with women.

Despite this he continued throughout his life to make embarrassingly self-revealing remarks about them in his philosophy. “You are going to see a woman? Do not forget your whip.”

The second life-changing incident took place when he entered a secondhand bookshop and came across a copy of Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation.

concentrate on classical philology

Despite his sexual status, he earnestly informed a friend that he would need to keep three women to satisfy him.)

had syphilis (they didn’t in those days, because it was incurable).

Typically this thinking appears to have been done in complete isolation.

But this was only a necessary phase. By now Nietzsche had decided “God is dead.”

This remark, now so closely associated with Nietzsche and his philosophy, was also made by Hegel some twenty years before Nietzsche was born.)

By an utterly meaningless coincidence, all three men were to die insane.