Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (/ˈniːtʃə, ˈniːtʃi/ German: ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈniːtʃə (audio speaker iconlisten) or ˈniːtsʃə 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 45, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900.

BOOKS
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873)
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (1873)
Untimely Meditations (1876)
Human, All Too Human (1878)
The Dawn (1881)
The Gay Science (1882)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
The Case of Wagner (1888)
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
The Antichrist (1888)
Ecce H****(1888; first published in 1908)
Nietzsche contra Wagner (1888)
The Will to Power (posthumous, compiled and edited by his sister first published in 1901)

My goat

Read Beyond Good and Evil and the Gay Science in high school but havent read him since

thus spoke zarathustra is his most inspiring work imo. at certain point the book hits you like a bolt of lightning

in, remember loving his work during high school.

Very destructive but I do quite like the first essay of the Genealogie