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> That guy is just unreadable, I wonder if he was schizophrenic.

I find him among the most readable of philosophers, maybe the most readable. I can't think of any philosopher who is as readable. I don't care for Zarathustra or his poetry, but everything else he wrote I've read numerous times, with a lot of pleasure. Often he's very funny.

Only his last book Ecce Homo seems really nuts, and even that has a lot of good stuff in it besides the grandiose claims.



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