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What device did Nietzsche get in 1882 to spare his weak eyes?
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What did Nietzsche call the basic drive behind all life?
Answer: Will to power
Why: Self-preservation, Nietzsche argued in Beyond Good and Evil, is just one indirect result of the will to power, not life's basic urge.
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Where did Nietzsche collapse in January 1889?
Answer: Turin
Why: After the collapse he lived on for more than eleven years and died in Weimar on 25 August 1900.
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Which bird keeps Zarathustra company on his mountain?
Answer: Eagle
Why: Zarathustra's other companion is a serpent: the eagle stands for pride, the serpent for wisdom.
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Where did Nietzsche say the only valuable thoughts come from?
Answer: Walking
Why: The same maxim mocks Flaubert's claim that one can think and write only while seated.
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Which book first said "what doesn't kill me makes me stronger"?
Answer: Twilight of the Idols
Why: Nietzsche wrote the whole book in just over a week, in late summer 1888.
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Who first wrote "become who you are"?
Answer: Pindar
Why: Nietzsche echoed the line in the subtitle of his Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is.