Sunday, March 17, 2013

Nietsche

Definition:
                (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) - a German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.

Sample Sentences:

  • Nietzsche said "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." 
  • Nietzsche wrote the quote "a great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness".
  • Nietzsche also wrote the quote "all credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses".

Usage:
          NY Times
          American Thinker


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                 Nietzsche believed that you could become your own super human just by making yourself that way.  He questioned Christianity and challenged its basis saying that people do not need a higher power to be who they want to be.  He also championed transvaluation.


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