Brief aphorisms from the great existentialist about human passions. Some face their ideal with a cautious humility and prefer to deny it; they fear their higher self because when it speaks, it speaks demanding.

The best-selling series "Selected Works" from Oxy Publications is enriched with seven new titles, seven new small books of great thoughts, which are added to the previous 16 titles. The thoughts of the inexhaustible and widely read Friedrich Nietzsche are captured in this semi-autobiographical excerpt from "Human, All Too Human," yet another anthropological study that is still referenced by people of the 21st century.

Self-contained thoughts and insightful observations about the passions and desires that struggle to impose themselves, about the so human feelings that cloud the truth, the convenient delusions that make the world turn, and how ultimately a spirit can be liberated – both from prejudice and folly as well as from the prison of its own beliefs.

Thoughts that are not necessarily solitary, but are clearly favored by the self-sufficiency of the mind that conceived them: Friedrich Nietzsche, completing with equal doses of depth, provocation, and reverie the Human, All Too Human – a work that marks the beginning of his great philosophical journey – gives its last chapter the title "Alone with Yourself."

About the author: The leading philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Röcken, Saxony, near Leipzig. At the age of 25, he was appointed a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel – renouncing his Prussian citizenship that same year and remaining officially stateless for the rest of his life – from where he resigned for health reasons ten years later in 1879.

He wrote the bulk of his philosophical work within the next decade, before his health collapsed definitively in 1889 (he died insane and almost paralyzed in 1900). Rejecting religion, dismissing "objectivity," and condemning morality, he prophetically heralded existentialism and postmodernism; however, it can be argued that aspects of his ideas, such as his "creative" nihilism, have yet to be fully understood.