AUTHOR | FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Friedrich Nietzsche | Aesthetics, Ethics, Metaphysics, Nihilism, Psychology, Ontology, Poetry, Value theory
Bio:
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
“ They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike...
“ When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conqu...
“ One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets...
“ The man of knowledge must be able not only to love h...
“ This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall...
“ Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
“ People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings;...
“ All modern philosophizing is political, policed by g...
“ But it is the same with man as with the tree. The mo...
“ What, if some day or night a demon were to steal aft...
“ love as a passion–it is our European specialty–must ...
“ When we have to change an opinion about any one, we ...
“ It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship t...
“ Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy – that i...
“ All beings so far have created something beyond them...
“ You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look ...