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Did Nietzsche ever have respect for Schopenhauer? maybe towards the end of his life?

i’m aware nietzsche was schopenhauer’s biggest critic after thoroughly researching him but was there ever a moment where he respected him besides at the very beginning?
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Actually, quite the other way around. The early Nietzsche had considerable respect for Schopenhauer and was in some sense awakened by contact with his works, despite later outgrowing him and attacking many of his notions.

Early in his philosophical career he was highly influenced by The World as Will and Representation. As Kaufmann relates:

>It was in Leipzig that Nietzsche accidentally picked up a copy of Schopenhauer’s Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung in a second-hand bookstore—not to lay it down again until he had finished it.

And further:

>he believed that Schopenhauer, Heine, and Wagner were the most important men in German arts and letters since Goethe’s death.

Nietzsche's break from Schopenhauer goes along with his general rejection of systematizing thinkers. He came to believe that systems were ultimately doomed to internal contradiction, and that their value had thus better be determined otherwise, in particular by how they benefitted the individual. Again to Kaufmann, who describes this phase in terms of someone hoping that a system might eventually emerge that validates such thinking:

>After scorning the ambition of the great systematizers down to Schopenhauer, Nietzsche thus develops a pride of his own. By his fearless questioning he hopes to get to the bottom of problems. The insights which he tries to formulate in his aphorisms will have to be accounted for in any comprehensive explanatory system, just as an honest scientific experiment cannot be ignored by any comprehensive scientific system. While the systems come and go, the experiment—perhaps variously interpreted—remains.