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Pertaining to the works and philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), who was the king of quotable quotes among 19th-century philosophers, his most famous statement being that ‘God is dead’. His thoughts on religion – best summed up in his saying ‘faith is not wanting to know what is true’ – scandalised Europe, while his theories on a ‘superman’ higher species are said to have influenced Nazism.