Summary of the book "When Nietzsche Wept"

• Irvin Yalom is an American existential psychiatrist. In his book "When Nietzsche Wept" he narrates the fictional story of a doctor Josef Breuer and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
• The book starts with a meeting between a friend of Nietzsche with Breuer to ask him to urgently help Nitzsche as he is at the brink of suicide and his death will be a great death for humanity due to his bright future in philosophy. 
• Breuer decides to help Nietzsche but his own personal problems become more exaggerated along the way of consultations.  

"Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death."

“The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.”

“Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”

“If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ...