Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All Too Human. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 51.
Stanton had been their past President and was one of the most famous suffragettes of the time. Despite her warning, the religious wing of the women’s movement pushed the resolution through.
… to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.
This of course applied mostly to public personages and applied not only in the political arena but also in the social arena.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900.
