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Philosopher who declared God dead and got wildly misread by everyone after.
means Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher who rejected traditional morality, questioned the value of truth itself, and argued that life's meaning comes from creating your own values—not inheriting them.
from Born in Röcken, Prussia, the son of a Lutheran pastor. The irony of rejecting his father's God while keeping his father's intensity shaped everything he wrote. His name rhymes with 'each' in German but English speakers have been saying it wrong for 150 years.
God is deadHis most famous line; he meant we killed God through science, not that he ceased existing
Went insaneSuffered mental collapse at 44; spent last 11 years unable to write or recognize people
Sister rewrote himHis Nazi sympathizer sister edited his unpublished work, corrupting his legacy catastrophically
Hated ChristianityCalled it a slave morality designed to make the weak feel virtuous