Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
I think Nietzsche is a great philosopher because he totally demolished the foundations of 'modern' Western philosophy. Prior to him, philosophers were going round and round in circles, trying to justify their susila principles through all kinds of abstract fictions and ridiculous concepts such as utility, rights, etc. Nietzsche exposed the emptiness of these concepts, and demonstrated that these susila concepts are merely facades for the power politics. It is a bleak, nihilistic scenario that he exposes.
Influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is known for his writings on good and evil, the end of religion in modern society and the concept of a "super-man."
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844, in Röcken bei Lützen, Germany. In his brilliant but relatively brief career, he published numerous major works of philosophy, including Twilight of the Idols and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In the last decade of his life he suffered from insanity; he died on August 25, 1900. His writings on individuality and morality in contemporary civilization influenced many major thinkers and writers of the 20th century.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“You must carry a chaos inside you to give birth to a dancing star.”
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
“Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and agesit is the rule.”
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evi
“Woman was God's second mistake.”
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
"Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things." "The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”
"A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile
to woman than the truth – her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty."
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche