Friedrich Nietzsche: 3 ideas worth knowing

3 ideas from Friedrich Nietzsche, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

Nietzsche's madman announces that humanity itself has killed God
In an 1882 passage of The Gay Science, Nietzsche has a madman run into a marketplace shouting that 'God is dead, and we have killed him,' warning that science and secularism had de…
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
A demon asks: would you live this exact life, every joy and pain, infinite times over?
Nietzsche imagined a demon proposing the ultimate test: everything that has happened to you, down to the smallest detail, must recur again and again, forever, in the same order. He…
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Nietzsche: 'good and evil' was invented by the weak to defeat the strong
Nietzsche argued the powerful once simply called their own strength 'good' and weakness 'bad' — no guilt attached. Slave morality, he said, was the underclass's psychological reven…
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

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