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
“La valía de un hombre se mide por la cuantía de soledad que le es posible soportar.”
“Il n’y a pas d’art pessimiste… L’art affirme.”
“Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.”
“Nothing succeeds if prankishness has no part in it.”
“The intense clarity of the image failed to satisfy us, for it seemed to hide as much as it revealed; and while it seemed to invite us to pierce the veil and examine the mystery behind it, its luminous concreteness nevertheless held the eye entranced and kept it from probing deeper”
“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.”
“Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?”
“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”
“E tutti odiavano furiosamente chi aspirava alla conoscenza e a quella più recente delle virtù che ha nome sincerità.”
“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!”
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
“Tout ce qui ne tue pas l'homme le rend plus fort.”
“پارسا سخن مي گويد؛خدا ما را دوست مي دارد از آنرو كه ما را آفريدشما نازك انديشان چنين ميگوئيد"انسان خدا را آفريد"و آيا نبايد دوست داشته باشد آنچه را كه آفريده است؟آيا از آنرو كه آنرا آفريد مي تواند انكارش كند؟اين گفته لنگ ميزند، نعل ابليس برپاي دارد”
“Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...”
“No hay fenómenos de moral, hay interpretación moral de los fenómenos”
“Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.”
“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”