Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Ecce Homo. The Antichrist. Twilight of the Idols. The Gay Science

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche wrote his main works at the end of the 19th century, however, all the next century, ideas expressed in them and thoughts continued to inspire and strengthen the spirit of hundreds of thousands of people in Europe.
Who was this unusual person? Philosopher? However, he did not leave behind a harmonious philosophical system, in which global issues of cognition or the fundamental foundations of the structure of the world would be sequentially considered. Nietzsche"s works are more likely to resemble vivid literary opuses, richly seasoned with aphoristic statements. By education, he was a philologist, however, he went down in history as an original thinker who talked about a wide variety of categories - about religion and church, about the burning of the spirit, about the will, about faith and self -improvement of man. Since childhood, Nietzsche was generously gifted with abilities. He was born in 1844 in the family of the Lutheran German pastor, early began to show musical abilities, already at the age of ten began to compose, and in his youth he wrote piano plays. Nietzsche graduated from the famous Porta gymnasium, from the walls of which many famous scientists came out. At twenty -four, Nietzsche, while still a student, became a professor at the University in Basel.
At the same time, since his student times, he was distinguished by a certain detachment. He did not fit into a reckless student life. He was attracted to high. He was interested in philosophical and ethical problems. It is no accident that his favorite composer became Wagner, with whom Nietzsche then made friends. However, brilliant success in study accompanied constant headaches, insomnia, and stomach problems. By the age of thirty -five, his health staggered so much that he was forced to leave the university. By the way, the aphorism of its texts is a consequence of the weakness of the body. Nietzsche simply could not look at the white sheets of paper for a long time - her head began to split. The suffering of the body exacerbated the state of the mind. The early father Nietzsche died in a psychiatric clinic. His son, who became the famous, treated the ailments of opiates and Veronal and ended his life at the age of fifty -six years in exactly the same way.
However, the worse he became, the higher his spirit took place. Nietzsche wrote about the lies of Christianity, claiming that the resurrection of Christ was simply a hallucination. He overthrew the stereotypes rooted in the minds of people, said that a person in this life should rely only on his own strength, outlining his fears, ailments and errors. Nietzsche’s “superman” is not a student with an ax who decided that he was allocated, and not a Wehrmacht soldier with a machine gun on his side, but overcoming the suffering and internal restrictions, a creative person who, like the sun, widely pours out the energy of creativity and creating around himself. Talking about high categories, Nietzsche completely came to the ideas described in Zen Buddhism more than two millennia ago. This is the secret of Nietzsche’s popularity.


The collection of one of the most original German thinkers - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - includes his iconic work, a kind of alloy of philosophy, poetry and prose so said Zarathustera. It was first published in 1883 and since then he continues to attract the attention of readers expressed in him about the possibility of the existence of a “superman”. Other works of the collection: “Twilight of idols”, “Antichrist”, “Esse homo” and “Merry science” - are also no less interesting. At the end, several poetic works of the writer are presented. The publication is illustrated by the drawings of the contemporary artist Olga Rusakova