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Why should you read this book? Ecce Homo is an excellent introductory book for those who want to hear Nietzsche's Zarathustra, The Twilight of His Idols, and his relationship with the German composer Richard Wagner, which was considered the touchstone of his life in both positive and negative terms (!), which included first love and then deep hatred, in his own words! The book was at least as striking as Zarathustra. Even after I finished it, his discourses kept running in the background of my mind all day. The title of the book is quite striking, Ecce Homo (Latin: "Behold (see) Man"), an emphatic sentence spoken by Pontius Pilate, who presented the beaten, bound and crowned with thorns Jesus to the angry and hateful crowd, referring to Jesus. This happened shortly before the crucifixion. The title of the book and its content are very compatible... It is the last book written by Nietzsche, but in my personal opinion, it is the book that should be read first. It was not surprising to see Nietzsche praising himself in the chapter titles of the book ("why am I so wise, why am I so smart, why do I write such good books?") The words he said about the Germans and Christianity are poisonous. For example, he said: "Religions are mob affairs, I have to wash my hands after touching religious people"... His saying that Immanuel Kant and Leibniz were Europe's fetters, and his liking for Descartes and Stendhal were among the details that caught my attention. “How does one become oneself?” I think the answer to the question is hidden in these lines; by turning his back on all ideals. Because according to Nietzsche; “Delusion (-believing in the ideal-) is not blindness. Mistake is cowardice. Enjoyable reading