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>>15466235
This just reads like a guy who met his hero and came away grumbling and disappointed. His "criticisms" of Nietzsche being naive, or not as rigorous as a philosopher, are what a lot of people find compelling about Fred. I don't even think Nietzsche saw himself as a philosopher so much as a writer with a philosophical temperament.

It honestly sounds like Cioran wanted Nietzsche to be something different than what he was, and when he realized Nietzsche wasn't what he thought, instead of accepting the difference between expectation and reality, regressed to an immature kind of, "Hmph well it wasn't what I WANTED so it must be WRONG."

Reminds me of the limp-wristed and bitter liberal arts professors who plague modern universities. They can't reconcile what they want with what exists, and if what they want isn't provided, they don't produce it, just demand that what already exists changes to fit their needs. Weak.