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Friedrich Nietzsche

Дата рождения: October 15, 1844 – Röcken, Saxony, Prussia

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher and classical philologist whose influential works, including Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and On the Genealogy of Morals, challenged conventional morality, religion, and truth. His radical concepts such as the Übermensch and “God is dead” shaped modern existentialism, psychology, and twentieth-century intellectual thought.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844, in the small town of Röcken, Prussia. The son of a Lutheran pastor, Nietzsche’s early years were marked by the strong religious environment of his family, though his father died when Nietzsche was just five, leading the family to relocate to Naumburg. He demonstrated exceptional academic promise, attending the prestigious boarding school at Schulpforta, after which he went on to study classical philology at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig. It was during his time in Leipzig that Nietzsche encountered the works of Arthur Schopenhauer, igniting a deep and enduring engagement with philosophy.

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Without music, life would be a mistake
-Twilight of the Idols
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger
-Twilight of the Idols
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
-Beyond Good and Evil
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God is dead, and we have killed him
-Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages
-Twilight of the Idols
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He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how
-Twilight of the Idols
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There are no facts, only interpretations
-Twilight of the Idols
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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star
-Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies
-Human, All Too Human
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule
-Beyond Good and Evil

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