[madnak]

I agree that Human, All Too Human and the Gay Science were unparalleled. I don't think the same can be said of The Antichrist or Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche became more and more rigid over time, and lost the playful spirit and poetic approach of his earlier works. He also developed more of an agenda. I think if his later ideas on the will to power and the overman and morality had been expressed with the grace of his earlier thought, they would have had a more profound impact.