Brief aphorisms from the great existentialist about human passions.

Some approach their ideal with cautious humility and prefer to deny it; they fear their higher self because, when it speaks, it speaks demanding.

The thoughts of the inexhaustible and widely-read Friedrich Nietzsche are captured in this semi-autobiographical excerpt from "Human, All Too Human," another anthropological study that is still remembered by the people of the 21st century.

Independent thoughts and intelligent observations about the passions and desires that struggle to prevail, the so human feelings that cloud the truth, the convenient illusions that make the world go round, and how ultimately a spirit can be freed – both from prejudice and folly and from the prison of its own beliefs. Thoughts that are not necessarily solitary, but clearly favored by the self-sufficiency of the intellect that conceived them: Friedrich Nietzsche, completing "Human, All Too Human" with equal doses of profundity, challenge, and reflection – a work that marks the beginning of his great philosophical journey – gives the last chapter the title "Alone with Yourself."