Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Translated by Walter Kaufmann, The Viking Press, 1954, p. 64.
He had been beaten regularly by the white man in the area who was known for breaking “difficult” slaves. Finally he decided to risk his life and fought back subduing the white sadist. He never reported Douglass who could have been hanged because he didn’t want to lose his reputation by letting it be known that he had been beaten in a fight with a Black man. Thereafter, the two men avoided each other until Douglas ran away.
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.
