The man had balls! And, intentional or not, he's hilarious. ( )

Excerpts from Nietzsche ‘s last book before descending into madness. Does it feels? I don’t know it, but I found some interesting things about him I didn’t know before. For example, despite everyone thinks, he was very critical about the German culture even about Wagner so much that he didn’t consider himself German at all. ( )

I now actually own [b:Ecce Homo|479356|Ecce Homo (Penguin Classics)|Friedrich Nietzsche|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1387738624s/479356.jpg|560851], the book from which this essay is taken, but this was my introduction to Nietzche when I was fifteen or sixteen and it had a huge effect on my writing and thought at the time. I remember that I experimented with underlining passages and writing in comments, something that I rarely do with books to this day (a habit I have had to change for grad school. Underlining in pencil only, however). I remember that I had certain passages by rote because they stirred me so deeply. I had quite a few books in this "Great Ideas" series because they were inexpensive and a fair introduction to someone you've heard of but don't know how to approach. However, I think they're also dangerous given that they run the risk of falsely essentializing the philosophers and writers represented. ( )