Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo. Translated by Walter Kaufmann, Vintage Books, 1967, p. 225.
Nationalism produced negative effects on the society ranging from aggression, ethnic cleansing, war and hatred.
His most influential teacher was the English philosopher and feminist, Annie Besant, 1847-1933. See her quotations for some parallel ideas.
During the Nazi period, this quotation was used as propaganda amongst the German people to create the image of a pure Master Race.
This law was the excuse that was used by the racists of the 1920s to deny Japanese the right of American Citizenship and to inter them on the West Coast in WWII. The concept of Dual Citizenship which was so common in America after WWII was then anathema on the grounds that Americans cannot have dual loyalties. The anti-Japanese American forces claimed that since Japanese are always Japanese citizens even if born in America. Therefore, they are not to be trusted.
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.
