Nietzsche was a very sensitive man, not at all like his own Ubermensch. At the age of 44 he lost his mind and-according to biographers-the immediate cause was a scene at a Turin square, when the philosopher, upon leaving his lat, saw a carriage driver giving his horse a merciless whipping. He went to the animal, embraced it gently and cried, and then just collapsed. He lived for another 12 years, but he never returned to his senses. We are what we are, not what we think or wish we are.

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