For in these was reflected that which a personality must feel concerning the evolution and essential being of humanity when this personality is kept back from grasping the spiritual world by the restricted thought in the philosophy of nature characterizing the end of the 19th century .... What attracted me particularly was that one could read Nietzsche without coming upon anything which strove to make the reader a ' dependent ' of Nietzsche's.

Having been exposed to erudite philosophical literature as a young boy under the tutelage of Isaco Garsin, his maternal grandfather, he continued to read and be influenced through his art studies by the writings of Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Carducci, Comte de Lautréamont, and others, and developed the belief that the only route to true creativity was through defiance and disorder.

Their villa was often turned into a stage for little plays, directed by Murnau, who already read books of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays at the age of 12.

" At the University of Texas Lomax read Nietzsche and developed an interest in philosophy.

He entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he read the writings of the philosophers Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer and Otto Weininger and studied the works of Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger.

She read Friedrich Nietzsche and found in him the courage to keep upright against a periodically shifting and degrading life.

Brandes, in an 1888 letter, wrote to Nietzsche advising him to read the works of Kierkegaard.

He began painting at age 13, and his existentialist approach to art was formed during a bout with tuberculosis at age 16, during which he read Nietzsche, Sartre, Piaget, and Camus.

Rudolf Steiner, who revised the first catalogue of Nietzsche's personal library in January 1896, pointed out that Nietzsche would have read something similar in Eugen Dühring's Courses on philosophy ( 1875 ), which Nietzsche readily criticized.

Vogt's work, on the other hand, was read by Nietzsche during this summer of 1881 in Sils-Maria.

Blanqui is mentioned by Albert Lange in his Geschichte des Materialismus ( History of Materialism ), a book closely read by Nietzsche.

Though his friendship with Richard Wagner was nearly over, Wagner actually received a signed copy, though he never read it, saying Nietzsche would thank him for this one day.

Another important influence is Roger Joseph Boscovich, whom Nietzsche discovered and learned about through his reading of Friedrich Albert Lange's 1865 Geschichte des Materialismus ( History of Materialism ), which Nietzsche read in 1866.

Wilhelm Roux published his The Struggle of Parts in the Organism ( Der Kampf der Teile im Organismus ) in 1881, which Nietzsche first read the same year.

Léon Dumont ( 1837 – 77 ), whose 1875 book Théorie Scientifique de La Sensibilité, le Plaisir et la Peine Nietzsche read in 1883, seems to have exerted some influence on this concept.

Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli's 1884 book Mechanisch-physiologische Theorie der Abstammungslehre, which Nietzsche acquired around 1886 and subsequently read closely, had considerable influence on his theory of will to power.

Ashlag also studied German while in Warsaw, and read original texts of Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer.

However, the friendly relations soon deteriorate, as Bertie discovers that she was a little too controlling for his liking, and had dark plans afoot to try to make him read Nietzsche.

Although Peter Brown believed that Lennon's source for the lyric was the Tibetan Book of the Dead itself, which, he said, Lennon read whilst consuming LSD, George Harrison later stated that the idea for the lyrics came from Leary's, Alpert's and Metzner's book and Paul McCartney confirmed this, stating that he and Lennon had visited the newly opened Indica bookshop — Lennon was looking for a copy of The Portable Nietzsche — and Lennon had found a copy of The Psychedelic Experience that contained the lines: " When in doubt, relax, turn off your mind, float downstream ".

Jeeves, no longer in Bertie's employ, then gives the true reason why he mailed the parcel: he did not believe Florence and Bertie were suitable for each other, she being of a highly arbitrary temperament, and inclined to make him read Nietzsche.

In the college he read Nietzsche and Dostoevsky and associated with students and professors who were religious skeptics.

He also read Nietzsche and August Strindberg.

He also defines the term “ skepticism ” as he uses it and identifies two types of skeptic, the Apollonian, who is “ committed to clarity and rationality ” and the Dionysian, who is “ committed to passion and instinct .” William James, Bertrand Russell, and Friedrich Nietzsche exemplify the Apollonian skeptic, Carroll says, and Charles Sanders Peirce, Tertullian, Søren Kierkegaard, and Blaise Pascal are Dionysian skeptics.

Some of the main philosophers who have dealt with this issue are Marcus Aurelius, Omar Khayyám, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, David Hume, Baron d ' Holbach ( Paul Heinrich Dietrich ), Pierre-Simon Laplace, Arthur Schopenhauer, William James, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Ralph Waldo Emerson and, more recently, John Searle, Ted Honderich, and Daniel Dennett.

Musicians also cite writers such as William S. Burroughs, and philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche as influences.

The book South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today includes an essay in which Bridgewater State College philosophy professor William J. Devlin references the teachings of Socrates and Friedrich Nietzsche when describing Kyle's role in the show.

De Man elaborated a distinct deconstruction in his philosophically-oriented literary criticism of Romanticism, both English Romanticism and German Romanticism, with particular attention to William Wordsworth, John Keats, Maurice Blanchot, Marcel Proust, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, G. W. F.

LaVey's primary dedication was to Bernardino Nogara ( misprinted as " Logara "), Karl Haushofer, Grigori Rasputin, Basil Zaharoff, Alessandro Cagliostro, Barnabas, Ragnar Redbeard, William Mortensen, Hans Brick, Max Reinhardt, Orrin Klapp, Fritz Lang, Friedrich Nietzsche, W. C. Fields, P. T. Barnum, Hans Poelzig, Reginald Marsh, Wilhelm Reich, and Mark Twain.

* From Rousseau to the Present Day ( including Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Byron, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Utilitarians, Marx, Bergson, William James and John Dewey )

In a review for Political Theory, William E. Connolly argues that MacIntyre sees Nietzsche as " the adversary to be defeated, but Nietzsche's voice is not heard clearly ".

During his last two troubling seasons, he would quote Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Friedrich Nietzsche or William Shakespeare to his players to inspire them.

" The influence of Rolph and its connection to “ will to power ,” also continues in book 5 of Gay Science ( 1887 ) where Nietzsche describes will to power as the instinct for “ expansion of power ,” fundamental to all life.

Thus, Dumont ’ s pleasure in the expansion of power, Roux ’ s internal struggle, Nägeli ’ s drive towards complexity, and Rolph ’ s principle of insatiability and assimilation are fused together into the biological side of Nietzsche ’ s theory of will to power, which is developed in a number of places in his published writings.

It may be questioned, though, whether ‘ active nihilism ’ is indeed the correct term for this stance, and whether Nietzsche takes the problems nihilism poses seriously enough.

Many postmodern thinkers who investigated the problem of nihilism as put forward by Nietzsche, were influenced by Martin Heidegger ’ s interpretation of Nietzsche.

It is only recently that Heidegger ’ s influence on nihilism research by Nietzsche has faded.

As early as the 1930s, Heidegger was giving lectures on Nietzsche ’ s thought.

Given the importance of Nietzsche ’ s contribution to the topic of nihilism, Heidegger's influential interpretation of Nietzsche is important for the historical development of the term nihilism.

In his Nihilism as Determined by the History of Being ( 1944 – 46 ), Heidegger tries to understand Nietzsche ’ s nihilism as trying to achieve a victory through the devaluation of the, until then, highest values.

This makes Nietzsche ’ s metaphysics not a victory over nihilism, but a perfection of it.

Many references to Jünger can be found in Heidegger ’ s lectures on Nietzsche.

Habermas, Lyotard and Rorty are also philosophers who are influenced by Heidegger ’ s interpretation of Nietzsche.

"" Power, Nietzsche and the Greeks: Foucault ’ s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir ", Berfrois, July 2011.

It was a rich and complex milieu which included two important events in Rothko ’ s life: the onset of World War II, and his reading of Friedrich Nietzsche.

The most crucial philosophical influence on Rothko in this period was Friedrich Nietzsche ’ s The Birth of Tragedy.

He believed that this " emptiness " was created partly by the lack of a mythology, which could, as described by Nietzsche ,"... the growth of a child ’ s mind and – to a mature man his life and struggles ".

* Martin Heidegger and Nietzsche ’ s Overman: Aphorisms on the Attack

According to Strauss, modern social science is flawed because it assumes the fact-value distinction, a concept which Strauss finds dubious, tracing its roots in Enlightenment philosophy to Max Weber, a thinker whom Strauss described as a " serious and noble mind .” Weber wanted to separate values from science but, according to Strauss, was really a derivative thinker, deeply influenced by Nietzsche ’ s relativism.

" Robert Mayhew cautioned that “ We should not conclude too quickly that these passages are strong evidence of an earlier Nietzschean phase in Ayn Rand ’ s development, because such language can be strictly metaphorical ( even if the result of an early interest in Nietzsche )”.

Nietzsche eventually transformed the idea of matter as centers of force into matter as centers of will to power as mankind ’ s destiny to face with amor fati.

Having provided throughout his career an idealistic way of grasping the Will, in contrast to Schopenhauer ’ s pessimistic treatment, it remained for Royce to rescue Pauline Christianity, in its universalized and modernized form, from the critique of Nietzsche and others who tended to understand will in terms of power and who had rightly observed that the historic doctrine was no longer believable to the modern mind.

The most controversial part of The End of Memory is Volf ’ s sustained theological argument, developed in dialogue with Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Søren Kierkegaard, that remembering wrongs suffered and committed, if done rightly, will ultimately result in non-remembrance of the wrongdoing.

" Jack London himself took influence from Herbert Spencer ’ s words: “ survival of the fittest ”, as well as Friedrich Nietzsche ’ s idea of a “ superman ” ( or “ superdog ”, in this instance ) and of “ the worship of power.

Challenging Friedrich Nietzsche ’ s concept of eternal recurrence ( the idea that the universe and its events have already occurred and will recur ad infinitum ), the story ’ s thematic meditations posit the alternative ; that each person has only one life to live, and that which occurs in life occurs only once and never again — thus the “ lightness ” of being.