Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All Too Human. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 95.
The great scientist is almost always a radical thinker. Politicians are rarely radical thinkers and generally distrust anyone who is. This has always produced some friction between the great scientists and the great (and not so great) politicians.
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.
