User blog comment:Diexilius/Forsaken/@comment-28060931-20170310221559/@comment-25947144-20170310230548

Nietzsche's work, like many other philosophers', is interpretable in different ways, some ways which the philosopher himself didn't intend. Nietzsche himself, an atheist, was influenced by Søren Kierkegaard, also a guy with a more distinctive and logical perspective at the time, who was a Christian and thought religion is the highest phase a human can be at.

I recently read something about the history of philosophy, it's both very convoluted and a little disappointingly simple. Basically, each philosophical question has only two sides and philosophers often just combined one side of each question, rarely creating new things.