Man alone with himself - Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy.

Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's `will to power'.

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