Biography:
(b. 1844; d. 1900)
Friedrich Nietzsche is probably the most compelling and provocative figure in German philosophy. Worshiped by some as the savior of humanity and damned by others as its virulent foe, he has exerted a profound, volatile influence on contemporary thought. His far-reaching, controversial concepts such as eternal recurrence and the overman marked him as an insignificant eccentric during much of his career, but though he labored in obscurity he anticipated the day when his ideas would be realized in all their power and magnitude. "I know my fate," he wrote in 1888 before succumbing to insanity. "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."

Selected Quotes:
"Ye look aloft when ye long for exaltation; and I look downward because I am exalted."

"And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall."

"I learned to walk; since then have I let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot."

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· Books, Poems, essays (list)

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