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1844–1900 Germany
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. His critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality.
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The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.
The Antichrist (1895)
To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
The Gay Science (1882)
What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
The Antichrist (1888)
Around the inventors of new values the world revolves: invisibly it revolves. But around the actors revolve people and fame.
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.
Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883)
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognises the full import of this simile.
Human, All Too Human (1878)
Only thoughts reached by walking have value.
Twilight of the Idols (1889)
Light feet, the first attribute of divinity.
Twilight of the Idols (1889)
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
Men of application and goodwill, assist in this one work: to take the concept of punishment which has overrun the whole world and root it out! There exists no more noxious weed!
“What is the task of all higher education?” To turn men into machines. “What are the means?” Man must learn to be bored. “How is that accomplished?” “By means of the concept of duty.”
Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
The you is older than the I; the you has been pronounced holy, but not yet the I: so man crowds towards his neighbor.
Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885)
Christianity has succeeded in transforming Eros and Aphrodite—great powers capable of idealisation—into diabolical kobolds and phantoms.
The Dawn of Day (1881)
Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
How much truth can a certain mind endure, how much truth can it dare? These questions became for me ever more and more the actual test of values.
Ecce Homo (1908)
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
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