Nietzsche vs Tolstoy: should the soul rise up or bow down?

NIETZSCHE vs LEO TOLSTOY go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

NIETZSCHE

Your gospel of meekness is a slave's revenge dressed as virtue; life demands we overcome, not kneel.

LEO TOLSTOY

And your worship of power is a lonely man shouting at the void, Friedrich; true strength is to love and to give it all away.

NIETZSCHE

You gave away your estate and kept your genius, Leo, that is not humility, that is theater with a peasant's shirt.

LEO TOLSTOY

Better a peasant's shirt than a crown of thorns you sharpened yourself, for your superman dies alone, and my meek man dies loved.

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