Friedrich Nietzsche (born October 15, 1844), was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights.
Nietzsche wrote an extremely shameful letter to his mother declaring that he fully understood if she never wished to contact him again after the atrocity he had committed. He had been drunk the previous weekend.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, considered by many to be Nietzsche's main work, is a book in four parts, each written in only ten days.
Nietzsche once wrote famously 'God is dead' does not simply mean that religious belief is waning. The famous declaration of God's death is from "The madman" in one of his books, The Gay Science, and continues to say that "we all smell the divine decay as even a God can rot, but we have yet to see any divine gravediggers". The point isn't that we stopped believing - the point is that we need to look for another source of value or face nihilism, which is the subject of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, his most celebrated work.
Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes:
"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."
"If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed."
"Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic"
"He who fights with monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
Nietzsche loved long walks, beliveing its sparked his creativity. This turns out to be true, thanks to modern studies on the link between walks and creativity.