Friedrich Nietzsche, (Neechae.)

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th century anti-Christian philosopher who questioned the value and objectivity of truth.  He grew up well-educated and quickly took interest in poetry and musical compositions.

    Nietzsche rejected the idea of God, and his works remained controversial throughout history due to many misinterpretations, examples including inferences that he rejected religious spirituality entirely.  Nietzsche embraced no established branch of philosophy, and created all of his ideas independently.  He believed that men must accept that they are a part of a material world, regardless of what else might exist, and as a part of this world, men must live as if there is nothing else beyond life.  A failure to live, to take risks, is a failure to realize human potential.
    He also developed the idea of “Will to Power”, which sought to explain sympathy in society.  Through evolution, humans crave power to ensure survival.  Darwin’s evolution proposes that to ensure power, organisms should use animalistic instincts to fight for survival.  Nietzsche believes that humans developed a sympathetic society instead to ensure survival, creating the social drive of humanity.
    Lastly, he idealized the perfect person to be a “Superman”; one who defines his own morality.  Nietzsche believed the idea that God is dead, that the Creator is no longer active in human development.  By rejecting faith, the superman can become responsible for his own morality.  However, he decided that no person has reached such a level yet, that people are flawed and “all-too-human”.


Some Popular Quotes:
“Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it even becomes a mob.”


"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."


"What is good? -- All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man."