2 Quotes & Sayings By Nietszche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in 1844 at Röcken, near Leipzig, Germany. He spent his entire life in the city of Naumburg. His father, Carl Ludwig Nietzsche, was a Lutheran pastor at Naumburg. His mother, Franziska, came from an old and highly respected family. His earliest years were clouded by physical illness and emotional insecurity Read more

He suffered from rickets as a child and was lame for the rest of his life. Incredibly energetic, he nonetheless suffered from headaches throughout his life. He received no formal education until he was fifteen years old. At age seventeen he began working at the local court as a clerk and then as a judge's assistant.

These jobs provided him with enough money to spend on books, music, and art. In 1868 he became a teacher at the Philological School in Leipzig, where he stayed until his death in 1900. In 1872 he married Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, a writer who shared many of his ideas on art and morality. They had three children: a girl died from typhoid fever at six months old; their son became a doctor; their daughter remained unmarried and died in 1939 from tuberculosis while living in an asylum for mentally disturbed women in Basel, Switzerland.

In 1890 Nieztzsche published his first major work, The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (revised versions appeared posthumously). In 1879 Nietzsche met Paul Rée who introduced him to several German poets of the period known as "Young Germany." Rée introduced him to Richard Wagner's music and to Arthur Schnitzler's novels. He also met the famous anarchist Peter Kropotkin who introduced him to Darwinian theory and championed Nietzsche's evolutionary insights into human society. He gradually made contact with other German thinkers including Max Stirner whose writings on egoism influenced Nietzsche greatly after they met in 1889 or 1890. The outbreak of World War I found him dissatisfied with all forms of patriotism and with the war itself.

During this period he wrote "The Case of Wagner," "The Case of Wagner," "The Case of Wagner," "The Antichrist," "On the Genealogy of Morals," and The Will to Power . It was not until 1917 that his ideas would be influential during World War I when soldiers were given copies of his works along with Sigmund Freud's Beyond the