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What Friedrich Nietzsche Said About Fanaticism And What We Can Learn…

A fanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

“For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche.

My friend Petronio L post in our group online…

Nietzsche quote in Portuguese. Thanks, Petronio.

Nietzsche believed that the central task of philosophy was to teach us to become who we are.

To become who you are is to always be in the process of dying to one way of being so that you can become something else.

Will to power.

Nietzsche saw life as a conflict of different wills, with the “will to power” as the strongest drive that dominates all our other drives.

Change what you can control. Let go of what you can’t control.

To understand fanatics…

Fanaticism comes from the Latin word fanatics, a word with a meaning that includes the word mad — in both senses.