Friedrich Nietzsche’s Love Life and his Terrible Heartbreak

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, the astonishingly great and at times controversial German Philosopher and Culture Critic (October 15, 1844 to August 15, 1900) who began his career as a classical philologist before turning to Philosophy, had left an indelible mark in the intellectual annals of modern Europe. Highly knowledgeable in Western Classical Music, Nietzsche was trenchantly critical of accepted views/received traditions, a critical philosopher of comparative Religions, an Existentialist thinker often misunderstood easily, a great stylist in writing who took pride that "my style dances", and above all a deep humanist with a child-like heart. The distortion of Nietzsche's thoughts was at its tragic high when the Nazis sought to co-opt his work, for which Nietzsche was in no way responsible. But that is part of the tragedy of the history of ideas in the West. There is still something heart-warming and ennobling about Nietzsche's life that every youth would want to know. We, therefore, present here the story about Nietzsche's real life love story, great and immortal in its own way, which shows how a passionate commitment to a relationship even if one-sided could lead to the birth of one of the greatest works in modern Philosophy, "THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA". Every sensitive youth gets fascinated by this book at one point of time or the other, even if he/she were to reject its contents later. But the love story is still tender, endearing and informs us of a sensibilities of a by-gone age in Europe. This extract has been made possible, thanks to a long post in the Facebook Group, 'DEEP HISTORY'. We deeply appreciate and acknowledge their contribution and to their lovely pictures of the once love-couple....