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He argued that the universe offers no meaning and never will, and that the only serious philosophical question left is whether that is a reason to keep living: his answer, against the odds, was yes.
He announced that God was dead and no one had yet understood what that meant. He was right on both counts.
Connection
Friedrich Nietzsche meaning after the death of God Albert Camus — Camus's philosophy of the absurd draws directly on Nietzsche's diagnosis that traditional sources of meaning have collapsed, while resisting Nietzsche's will-to-power alternative in favor of a more modest, lucid persistence.
Ideas
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“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”
“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
Key Moments
1943
Edits the Resistance newspaper Combat
1957
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
1883-85
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
3 January 1889
Collapse in Turin
Works
The Myth of Sisyphus
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil