Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Untimely Meditations. Translated by R.J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
This statement was like many of the Yogi Berra quotations, with few understanding the point Bush was trying to make.
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.
