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“O sancta simplicitas! (sacred simplicity) In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! …. How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple! How we have been able to give our senses a passport to everything superficial, our thoughts a divine desire for wanton leaps and wrong inferences!” (Aphorism 24). Friedrich Nietzsche was, and still is, one of the most controversial philosophers of all time. I believe that Nietzsche’s grapple with the concepts he tries to make sense of, lead to his eventual insanity. “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you” (aphorism 146). Nietzsche spent his whole life trying to make sense of existence, attempting to label and give value (or lack thereof) to every aspect of life as all philosophers do. Nietzsche, however, took the opposite approach to this impossible task. Ni