Quote Originally Posted by Polymirize
man, its really easy to read a little nietzsche, not understand it at all, and complain, picking it apart because nobody speaks in aphorisms anymore.

If you can't put yourself aside enough to read nietzsche though the lens of nietzsche then you'll never understand him.

Which isn't to say he's perfect, but I think his problems are more misogynistic rather than anti-semetic.

visionary? lunatic? both? You're missing the point...

There is no compact, constructed philosophy to be found in nietzsche, he writes as a goad, a spur, a provocation...
exactly

i would also like to add to the generous proportion previously given by Polymirize; many have said that Nietzsche was an evil man (according to their standards) because the writings in Will To Power have been linked with the Nazi party, and may have played a role in WWII...however, these writings where a compilation of Nietzsche's notes and letters, put together by his sister after Nietzsche's breakdown and death, and does not reflect Nietzsche's opinion...though his name is on the book cover

do not criticize a thinker until you have not only read the majority of his work, but have also recieved the thoughts imprinted in the text, on multiple levels