Translator's Note
Nietzsche's writings

Part 1

First, I need to know myself.
I used myself so cruelly that it was almost cruel.
I question everything that is called truth.
Don't belittle yourself as a worthless person.
If you can't be alone, you can't move forward.
If you gaze into an abyss for a long time, the abyss will also gaze into you.
Light and shadow are not enemies
Actions can be promised, but feelings cannot.
Five Classes of Travelers
There's no way to get these thoughts out of my head other than writing them down.
Express only three-quarters of the power you possess.
I'd rather write a book that no one can read than a book that everyone can read.
Don't invite a hungry guest to dinner.
Popular culture is a product of slavery.
Deep thinkers disguise shallowness.
A snake that cannot shed its skin will perish.
The zoo called church
I am not human, I am dynamite
Marriage is the will of two people to create something together.
I can't stand it without being tempted
To my love, Lou Salome
Love fears change more than destruction.
If you can't dedicate two-thirds of your day to yourself,
What value is there in a long life without conquering oneself?
Amor Fati, Fate
I must walk this path alone

Part 2

The camel, the lion, and the child
Why meaninglessness is a problem
I must not think about the date or the newspaper, but only follow the cry within me.
The absence of a system is the system I pursue.
A free man is a warrior
If there had been no driving force called pride
Art has existed only for life.
Reading is like taking a moment to catch your breath.
Even if I say this book is difficult to understand, that is by no means a criticism.
Today's culture and cultured philistinism
Survivors never call pain pain.
Schopenhauer never tries to embellish
I want to be as much a by-product of this era as Wagner was.
The animal with the heaviest head and the most troubled heart
Only suffering makes a person grow.
I hope you are extremely desperate
Every age permits or prohibits certain virtues by force.
The relationship between the principle of animals becoming livestock to avoid slaughter and morality
There is wisdom in stinking things out.
If you want to develop humans, put them in the most dangerous environments.
All the blessings I remember in my life began by chance.
The habit of offering sacrifices
God is dead, we killed him.

Part 3

If death is closer to reality than life
The two most important questions
Like blood flowing from a very small wound
There is only one path that no one can cross except you
Even if something absurd happens, enjoy it as if you were participating in a festival.
Compassion comforts in the front, then turns around and enjoys victory.
Pity is the greatest enemy that threatens life.
When he walks again, his sins will walk with him.
Greatness is giving direction
There is no mission that transcends life.
Four Human Delusions
The three driving forces that move humans
My reflections are anachronistic.
Humans now believe they can exist on their own.
Things you should have known before building a house are always realized after the house is finished.
The premise of philosophy and art is suffering.
Free men act as a nation.
Class elevates humanity
fear of what one does not understand
Pain always asks for a cause, but pleasure never asks for a cause.
The absurd belief that consciousness is given at birth
We are deciding too quickly
Self-torture is man's only joy.
My anger is digging up graves
Adorning God as God
I don't want an equal world
Since I am a commoner, you too must be a commoner.
Communication isn't just about language.
An explosion that destroys nothing
Finally, grant me the madness to believe in myself without doubt.
I want to teach you the superhuman.

Part 4

If you feel depressed, it means you are close to something ugly.
Instead of old ink, wet the tip of the pen with your blood.
A race that prioritizes the enjoyment of work over the level of income
The end of a struggle is always beautiful.
Talk only about events you have overcome.
The best ideas are hard to understand.
Moral bias is no different from violence.
Your diligence is an escape
Don't be satisfied with just turning the pages of a book.
God is an idea, and paradise is a transformation of the mind.
Catholicism poisoned Eros
There is no material as great as fear.
God became a creature himself.
Don't trust those who judge others.
Humility made a dog out of a wolf.
Just as you don't fight logically with eye disease
The Fall of God
Morality rejects the self
Creation is true power.
Democracy is the universalization of decadence.
Don't think about sharing your responsibilities with others.
Culture is found in the most barbaric lifestyles of a people.
Independence is the privilege of the strong.
Your eyes envy the happiness of beasts.
To live is to exist in danger
The world is the will to power, nothing else.
I am a part of this huge city
In the city you lose everything

Part 5

Seasons of Life
Youth, it was a pain like a heavy illness.
Life, let your face shine upon me forever.
Lonely people need love
Even the most beautiful love is a little bitter
Parents shape their children into living the same lives as themselves.
In some ways, I am just my father.
I don't know, so I won't say anything.
Is life affirming deep within your heart?
A day in the life of a human being
The dangers of extraordinary people living in a conventional society
Agreements become customs, and regulations become compulsory.
I decided to dedicate my entire life to the truth.
There are times when people must choose their own trials.
If you live tied down all the time, but you can no longer feel it,
No more reacting, and thus surviving
How to get back to yourself
Even if it is a very small happiness
Where the people lose themselves
Life itself is the problem
Life has done something worse to me than murder.
You walk the great path prepared for you.
foolish people
Short Wisdoms
Was this life? If so, once again

source

If you can't be alone, you can't move forward.
Even if I give you everything in this world
Don't compromise, not even a single step!

“My day begins tomorrow.
As he had prophetically said, “Some people are born after death,” Nietzsche received greater recognition and support after his death than while he was alive.
It's been over a century since Nietzsche passed away, but why do we still remember him and seek answers to life's questions in his words? It's because modern people are unknowingly losing their true selves.
Unlike the past, when individuals were bound by Christian pressures of atonement and repentance, modern society threatens individual identity with an overflow of messages.
This is why we, who are living in a flood of messages and forgetting the most important thing, 'ourselves', must read Nietzsche at this very moment.

He says, “Overcome the pain with your own strength.”
Going one step further than Schopenhauer's statement that "living itself is originally suffering," it means that suffering helps humans grow.
He says that he is more grateful to his illness than anything else, saying that he was able to complete his philosophy thanks to the pain it gave him.
“The disease did not kill me, and each time I got sick I became stronger than before.
“What doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger.” By overcoming his pain on his own without giving up on himself or relying on others, he went one step further.

Nietzsche called himself a 'philosopher with a hammer' and denied existing norms and ideas.
But his denial is not simply pessimism that 'the world is wrong'.
It is a path of going down, breaking down one by one everything that society has built, and finding yourself hidden at the very bottom.
Because in order to meet your true self, you have to deny everything you have unconsciously accepted up until now.
At the end of this denial, new values ​​are established, a new era opens, and the path to finding one's true self opens.


Heidegger, Sartre, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault
“Friedrich Nietzsche destroyed my world.”

“It’s a childish confession, but I’ve been a pessimist since I was young.
I despaired when I realized early on that the world we believe in does not exist and that the life we ​​dream of is also impossible.
The road was not visible.
No, the road was cut off in front of me.
So I made up my mind.
“I decided to go all the way to the end of this broken road.”

Nietzsche's philosophy defined life as something to be overcome.
Having lost his father at the age of five and spent his entire life as a bachelor, suffering from epilepsy, migraines, and schizophrenia, Nietzsche may have despaired of having to live.
For Nietzsche, life was simply pain and wounds.
But through his own pain and wounds, he was able to confirm the truth, and through that, he was able to become a comfort to wounded souls.
A life of peril is the best shortcut to understanding Nietzsche.
The more a life is in crisis, the more deeply one can embrace Nietzsche.
The more the world becomes perilous and life becomes more helpless, the more widely and joyfully Nietzsche's writings are discovered.

Nietzsche's books are not as accessible as they are influential.
Because of his extensive travels across art, religion, politics, culture, and society, and his cryptic sentence structures, it is nearly impossible to read a single book by Nietzsche without considerable effort.
Therefore, this book can be said to be a guide for those who want to become more familiar with Nietzsche and, furthermore, find comfort in him.
No matter where you open the book and begin reading, you will vividly feel the struggles of Nietzsche, a human being like us who wandered to overcome a series of unfortunate lives.