But being gifted or being compelled are contemptible words designed to enable one to ignore an inner admonition, that is to say on the great man; he least of all lets himself be given gifts or be compelled–he knows as well as any little man how to take life easily and how soft the ...
Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche spoke of the “the death of God” and foresaw the dissolution of traditional religion and metaphysics. Some interpreters of...
It was Friedrich Nietzsche who wrote "Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain". Although the words of the German philosopher will certainly have no effect on the millions of schoolchildren over the Easter holiday, their parents can find comfort in his words as they struggle to keep ...
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who lived in the 19th century. He is best known for his ideas on the "will to power" and the concept of the "superman". His writings had a profound influence on modern thought and culture, and his works are still studied and discussed today. ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) is the maverick as well as most-misrepresented and most-misunderstood within the West’s philosophical tradition. He dares to say things most others before him would not venture to express. Particularly in his...
Nietzsche "unpacks" the complex parts of a willed action into two parts - commanding and obeying But now let us notice what is strangest about the will—this manifold thing for which the people have only one word: inasmuch as in the given circumstances we are at the same time the commandi...
1880s, Christian Emden contributes to a historically informed discussion of Nietzsche's response to the political predicaments of modernity, and sheds new light on the intellectual and political culture in Germany as the ideals of the Enlightenment gave way to the demands of the modern nation ...
Born on 15 October 1844, Nietzsche grew up in the town of Röcken (now part of Lützen), near Leipzig, in the Prussian Province of Saxony. He was named after King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, who turned 49 on the day of Nietzsche's birth (Nietzsche later dropped his middle name...
Philosopher, educator, and prolific writer Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a critic of nineteenth-century German culture and, concomitantly, the educational system of the time. Informed by contemporaries such as Schopenhauer and Wagner, as well as the earlier writings of Aristotle, Nietzsche saw...
Quotes by others about Friedrich Nietzsche (2) Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to be there or not, science has put us in the position of having to ...