This book is an essential aid for the study of the most subversive thinker in the history of European thought. As Paul Valery famously stated, “Nietzsche is not nourishment. He is a stimulant.”

For a better understanding of the work of this great thinker, the following excerpts are provided:

• “Whom do you call bad? The one who always wants to shame. What do you consider more humane? To save someone from shame.” (Nietzsche, The Gay Science)
• “You will rarely go wrong if you attribute your extreme actions to vanity, your moderate ones to habit, and your small actions to fear.” (Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human)
• “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher esteem those who think like him than those who think differently.” (Nietzsche, Dawn)
• “From the war school of life: What does not kill me makes me stronger.” (Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols)
• “I know of no better purpose in life than to sacrifice yourself, striving for the great and the impossible...” (Nietzsche, unpublished note, 1873)