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
“ You have your way. I have my way. As for the right w...
“ When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conqu...
“ Try for once to justify the meaning of your existenc...
“ All modern philosophizing is political, policed by g...
“ What, if some day or night a demon were to steal aft...
“ The man of knowledge must be able not only to love h...
“ As is well known, the priests are the most evil enem...
“ Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
“ Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy – that i...
“ Ich lehre euch den Ãœbermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etw...
“ They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike...
“ To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accid...
“ This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall...
“ People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings;...
“ What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied togeth...
“ A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, ...