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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.
Germany Composers Journalists Novelists Philosophers Also known as: Friedric Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Friedrich, Ecce Homo, Neitzsche
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Pity on the whole thwarts the law of evolution, which is the law of selection.
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
The stupidity of moral indignation, which is the unfailing sign in a philosopher that his philosophical sense of humor has left him.
‘Progress’ is just a modern idea, which is to say a false idea.
To grasp the limits of reason – only this is truly philosophy.
Gott ist tot! Gott bleibt tot! Und wir haben ihn getötet.
The Gay Science (1882)
According to the extent to which a spirit is sui generis, the limits of what is permitted—that is, beneficial to him—become more and more narrow.
You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes."
Christianity is Platonism for the "people".
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think, and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure — as a mere automaton of “duty.”
The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence — here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws."
The Will to Power (1888)
In no age has the weaker sex been treated with as much respect by men as in ours: that belongs to the democratic inclination and basic taste, just like disrespectfulness for old age.
Jenseits von Gut und Böse (1886)
We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.
Now I dare to pursue wisdom itself and to be myself a philosopher; formerly I worshipped the philosophers.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.
I am unable to do anything against it, that the name of Zarathustra is used in every Anti-Semitic Correspondence Sheet, has almost made me sick several times.
Any one of the laws of life is fulfilled by the definite cannon “thou shalt.” “Thou shalt not,” and any sort of obstacle or hostile element in the road of life, is thus cleared away.
Twilight of the Idols (1889)
God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him.
Our innermost being, our common foundation, experiences dreams with profound pleasure and joyful necessity.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
The Will to Power (1888)
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