54 Facts About Friedrich Nietzche

Friedrich Nietzche began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzche became the youngest person ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24.

Friedrich Nietzche lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche.

Friedrich Nietzche developed influential concepts such as the and his doctrine of eternal return.

Friedrich Nietzche edited his unpublished writings to fit her German ultranationalist ideology, often contradicting or obfuscating Nietzsche's stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism.

Friedrich Nietzche was named after King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, who turned 49 on the day of Nietzsche's birth.

Friedrich Nietzche studied there from 1858 to 1864, becoming friends with Paul Deussen and Carl von Gersdorff.

Friedrich Nietzche found time to work on poems and musical compositions.

Friedrich Nietzche composed several works for voice, piano, and violin beginning in 1858 at the Schulpforta in Naumburg when he started to work on musical compositions.

Friedrich Nietzche became acquainted with the work of the then almost-unknown poet Friedrich Holderlin, calling him "my favorite poet" and writing an essay in which he said that the poet raised consciousness to "the most sublime ideality".

Friedrich Nietzche owed the awakening of his philosophical interest to reading Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation and later admitted that Schopenhauer was one of the few thinkers whom he respected, dedicating the essay "Schopenhauer as Educator" in the Untimely Meditations to him.

Friedrich Nietzche was regarded as one of the finest riders among his fellow recruits, and his officers predicted that he would soon reach the rank of captain.

Friedrich Nietzche was only 24 years old and had neither completed his doctorate nor received a teaching certificate.

Friedrich Nietzche was awarded an honorary doctorate by Leipzig University in March 1869, again with Ritschl's support.

Friedrich Nietzche began a friendship with Paul Ree who, in 1876, influenced him into dismissing the pessimism in his early writings.

Friedrich Nietzche was alienated by Wagner's championing of "German culture", which Nietzsche felt a contradiction in terms, as well as by Wagner's celebration of his fame among the German public.

Friedrich Nietzche spent many summers in Sils Maria near St Moritz in Switzerland.

Friedrich Nietzche spent his winters in the Italian cities of Genoa, Rapallo, and Turin and the French city of Nice.

Friedrich Nietzche is known to have tried using the Hansen Writing Ball, a contemporary typewriter device.

Friedrich Nietzche subsequently transcribed and proofread the galleys for almost all of Nietzsche's work.

Friedrich Nietzche went on to list the number of people Epicurus, for example, had to rely on to supply his simple diet of goat cheese.

Friedrich Nietzche had been interested in Nietzsche as a friend, but not as a husband.

Friedrich Nietzche nonetheless was happy to continue with the plans for an academic commune.

Friedrich Nietzche turned away from the influence of Schopenhauer, and after he severed his social ties with Wagner, Nietzsche had few remaining friends.

Friedrich Nietzche then printed Beyond Good and Evil at his own expense.

Friedrich Nietzche acquired the publication rights for his earlier works and over the next year issued second editions of The Birth of Tragedy, Human, All Too Human, Daybreak, and of The Gay Science with new prefaces placing the body of his work in a more coherent perspective.

Friedrich Nietzche continued to have frequent and painful attacks of illness, which made prolonged work impossible.

Friedrich Nietzche exchanged letters with Hippolyte Taine and Georg Brandes.

Friedrich Nietzche's health improved and he spent the summer in high spirits.

Friedrich Nietzche overestimated the increasing response to his writings especially to the recent polemic, The Case of Wagner.

Friedrich Nietzche studied Nietzsche's works and, piece by piece, took control of their publication.

Friedrich Nietzche wore a signet ring bearing the Radwan coat of arms, traceable back to Polish nobility of medieval times and the surname "Nicki" of the Polish noble family bearing that coat of arms.

Friedrich Nietzche proposed to Lou Salome three times and each time was rejected.

Friedrich Nietzche's works remain controversial, due to varying interpretations and misinterpretations.

Friedrich Nietzche's writings have been described as a revolutionary project in which his philosophy serves as the foundation of a European cultural rebirth.

Friedrich Nietzche argued that this fusion has not been achieved since the ancient Greek tragedians.

Friedrich Nietzche is the horror of the annihilation of the principle of individuality and at the same time someone who delights in its destruction.

Friedrich Nietzche describes primordial unity as the increase of strength, the experience of fullness and plenitude bestowed by frenzy.

Friedrich Nietzche pointed out that what is common among different peoples is the act of esteeming, of creating values, even if the values are different from one person to the next.

Friedrich Nietzche associated slave morality with the Jewish and Christian traditions, as it is born out of the ressentiment of slaves.

Friedrich Nietzche cautioned that morality, per se, is not bad; it is good for the masses and should be left to them.

Friedrich Nietzche called himself an "immoralist" and harshly criticised the prominent moral philosophies of his day: Christianity, Kantianism, and utilitarianism.

Friedrich Nietzche condemned institutionalised Christianity for emphasising a morality of pity, which assumes an inherent illness in society:.

Friedrich Nietzche indicated his desire to bring about a new, more naturalistic source of value in the vital impulses of life itself.

Friedrich Nietzche wrote that Jews should be thanked for helping uphold a respect for the philosophies of ancient Greece, and for giving rise to "the noblest human being, the purest philosopher, the mightiest book, and the most effective moral code in the world".

Friedrich Nietzche wished to hasten its coming only so that he could hasten its ultimate departure.

Friedrich Nietzche wants a kind of spiritual evolution of self-awareness and overcoming of traditional views on morality and justice that stem from the superstitious beliefs still deeply rooted or related to the notion of God and Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzche reworked Nietzsche's unpublished writings to fit her own German nationalist ideology while often contradicting or obfuscating Nietzsche's stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism.

Friedrich Nietzche Nietzsche held a pessimistic view of modern society and culture.

Friedrich Nietzche believed the press and mass culture led to conformity, brought about mediocrity, and the lack of intellectual progress was leading to the decline of the human species.

Friedrich Nietzche read Kant, Plato, Mill, Schopenhauer and Spir, who became the main opponents in his philosophy, and later engaged, via the work of Kuno Fischer in particular, with the thought of Baruch Spinoza, whom he saw as his "precursor" in many respects but as a personification of the "ascetic ideal" in others.

Friedrich Nietzche expressed deep appreciation for Stifter's Indian Summer, Byron's Manfred and Twain's Tom Sawyer.

Friedrich Nietzche quoted Mahler himself, and adds that he was influenced by Nietzsche's conception and affirmative approach to nature, which Mahler presented in his Third Symphony using Zarathustra's roundelay.

Friedrich Nietzche's deepening of the romantic-heroic tradition of the nineteenth century, for example, as expressed in the ideal of the "grand striver" appears in the work of thinkers from Cornelius Castoriadis to Roberto Mangabeira Unger.