Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Translated by Walter Kaufmann, Penguin Books, 1978, p. 89.
Manava Dharma Shastra. The Hindu religion is one of the few that religiously institutionalizes inequality amongst people—even in modern times. This “caste system” places people in classes—castes—into which they are born. No matter what their behavior they cannot move to a different caste. The Indian government has outlawed the caste system, but none-the-less it is still observed by most Indians. It is the total opposite to a meritocracy. There can be no social mobility in this life. The Hindus believe in reincarnation, where when a person dies, the soul is reborn in another body—another human or an animal. If a person has led a good life within his caste, he will come back as a higher caste; if not, a lower cast or an animal. This text is a part of the Hindu Holy Texts. Hindus believe that Manu was a prophet whose text is revealed or inspired.
He was the last Pope to hold temporal power.
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.
