Friedrich Nietzsche BIO » 12 sources by this author »(October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900), was a German philosopher. He wrote critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. His style, and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth, raise considerable problems of interpretation, generating an extensive secondary literature in both continental and analytic philosophy. Nonetheless, his key ideas include interpreting tragedy as an affirmation of life, an eternal recurrence that has fallen into numerous interpretations, a reversal of Platonism, and a repudiation of Christianity as it was in the 19th century.
hide There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
"Faith" means not wanting to know what is true.
The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding — in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.
You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
