Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a mental breakdown and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia, living his remaining 11 years under the care of his family until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
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No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
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The habit of intellectual principles without reasons is called faith.
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Excessive productivity can bring the most gifted man almost to madness.
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Out of passions grow opinions, mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions.
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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
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They punish you for all your virtues. They forgive you entirely--your mistakes.