Friedrich 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
“I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.”
Friedrich Neitzsche
“Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. ”
Friedrich Neitzsche
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
Friedrich Neitzsche
“From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.”
Friedrich Neitzsche
“Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.”
Friedrich Neitzsche