Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Country Germany
Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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A 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism. Nietzsche’s influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. His style and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth have resulted in much commentary and interpretation, mostly in the continental tradition. His key ideas include the death of God, perspectivism, the Übermensch, the eternal recurrence, and the will to power.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Uncategorized
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Uncategorized
Only sick music makes money today. Uncategorized
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. Uncategorized
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Uncategorized
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. Uncategorized
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. Uncategorized
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Uncategorized
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Uncategorized
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. Uncategorized
When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you. Uncategorized
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets Uncategorized
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…? Uncategorized
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. Uncategorized
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. Uncategorized
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. Uncategorized
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. Uncategorized
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Uncategorized
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Uncategorized
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Uncategorized