Nietzsche sought strength in the will to power, but the cross proclaims a deeper wisdom he could not hear — a word that ...

Richard Spencer, leading light of America’s alt-right, said in an interview last year that he was “red-pilled” by reading the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The reference is to “The Matrix”; in the ...

If you’ve read the sullen German philosopher, you might not believe that Nietzsche would have wanted you to be happy. But author Nate Anderson has done what few of us who only know the phrase “God is ...

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche advocated for embracing joy, play, and laughter as essential for an authentic life. He ...

The Big Ideas series has for several months now explored the meaning of a number of familiar intellectual phrases, among them Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message", Hannah Arendt's "the ...

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes have lasting power. Even though the scholar and philosopher only lived to the age of 44, he left an impressive written legacy behind rife with musings and critiques.

Nietzsche was a renegade. Not only were his writings the subject of much controversy, but it is often speculated that he was a homosexual, something that was not only taboo, but also illegal back then ...

It takes a strong philosopher to assume control of a preposition and propel it into a foreign language. That is what Friedrich Nietzsche did with the word über. In German, it can mean “over,” “beyond, ...

Philosophy professor John Kaag's 2016 book, American Philosophy, was a heady mix of memoir and intellectual history wrapped up in a romantic story of a lost library and new love. In Hiking with ...