What Friedrich Nietzsche thinks about creativity

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German philosopher (1844 to 1900); professor of classical philology at Basel from 1869 to 1879; author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and Twilight of the Idols.

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1. c. 1886

   Our readingEvery great philosophy so far has been an involuntary autobiography of its author

   Their wordsIt has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of—namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious auto-biography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.

   ↗Beyond Good and Evil (1886; Helen Zimmern translation)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book