AUTHOR | FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Friedrich Nietzsche | Aesthetics, Ethics, Metaphysics, Nihilism, Psychology, Ontology, Poetry, Value theory
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Beginning his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy, he became the youngest-ever occupant of the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869, at age 24. He resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life, and he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother (until her death in 1897) and then his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and died in 1900. Nietzsche's body of writing spanned philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, aphorism, and fiction while displaying a fondness for metaphor and irony and drawing var
Born: 1844-10-15
Born in: Röcken (near Lützen), Saxony, Prussia
Died: 1900-08-25
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All Quotes from the Author Friedrich Nietzsche 179
“ For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot b...
“ For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that ev...
“ New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still ...
“ The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As ...
“ What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, me...
“ It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists...
“ Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you...
“ Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it ...
“ The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys sev...
“ The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists ...
“ Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, t...
“ The true man wants two things: danger and play. For ...
“ The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wr...
“ The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of l...
“ State is the name of the coldest of all cold monster...
“ Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek...