Friedrich Nietzsche *0007
Annotation #0007 I totally get why he was hugging that horse with a heartbroken look on his face—honestly, same. But of course, people just said, “Yup, he’s finally lost it.” Well… to be fair, he did show signs of madness after that and eventually passed away. It’s pretty fascinating that Nietzsche —a nine-letter German word—can be pronounced in just two syllables in Korean. What kind of sorcery is that? If you're not careful, you might overdo it and read it in a pompous way, like “Ni-e-cheu-she,” pretending to sound sophisticated. In the early 18th century, Immanuel Kant’s philosophy completely scrambled people’s way of thinking. It was notoriously difficult. All I really remember is that he flipped the relationship between the subject and the object of perception. In other words, the subject's way of perceiving determines how the object (be it a thing or existence) is understood. Depending on how the perceiver thinks, even the universe itself could be a completely dif...