Friedrich Nietzsche, born Oct. 15, 1844, Röcken, Saxony, Prussia, died Aug. 25, 1900, Weimar, Thuringian States. German philosopher who reasoned that Christianity's emphasis on the afterlife makes its believers less able to cope with earthly life. He argued that the ideal human, the Übermensch, would be able to channel passions creatively instead of suppressing them. His written works include Beyond Good and Evil (1886) and Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-1892).
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Not necessity, not desire- no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything- health, food, a place to live, entertainment- they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book- I call that vicious!
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