Freidrich Neitzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Ph.D., Philology, Leipzig University, 1869) was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality. He was interested in the enhancement of individual and cultural health, and believed in life, creativity, power, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond. Central to his philosophy is the idea of “life-affirmation,” which involves a questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent those views might be. Often referred to as one of the first existentialist philosophers along with Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855).
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“You will not get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.”
Freidrich Neitzsche
“Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself”
Freidrich Neitzsche
“You shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: you must be proud of your foes. Thus have I already taught.”
Freidrich Neitzsche
“All great artists and thinkers are great workers.”
Freidrich Neitzsche
“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.”
Freidrich Neitzsche
“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
Freidrich Neitzsche
“The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”
Freidrich Neitzsche