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This week marked the 169th birthday for Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 -1900). Nietzsche is perhaps the most controversial philosopher of the late 19th century. His work inspired a wide assortment of individuals, ranging from anarchists such as Emma Goldman and Albert Camus, classical liberals such as H. L. Mencken, and Ayn Rand, and well as scholars such as Oswald Spengler and Michel Foucault.
1. “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
2. “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.”
3. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Nietzsche in the Twilight of the Idols.
4. “A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”
5. “The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.”
6. “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”
7. “The State is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: `I, the State, am the People.’… Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth.”
8. “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
9. “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
10. “No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”