Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Translated by Thomas Common, The Modern Library, 1917, p. 43.
This is the old, traditional proverb that expresses a truth of all oral cultures. See {616490} for a newer proverb on knowledge.
This saying symbolized Spain’s resistance to Enlightenment ideals and its strong dependence on Catholicism.
There was the beginning of a major debate in the advanced countries over the notion of copyright to protect authors and knowledge being a public property. The solution for America and most nations was to allow copyright protection for the specific expression of the knowledge but not the knowledge itself. You cannot copyright an idea or the laws of science—just the way they are expressed. Therefore all are free to discuss the knowledge and also write about it.
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.
