Friedrich Nietzsche — "Every talent must be paid for. One pays for it always, whether one has it or not…"
Every talent must be paid for. One pays for it always, whether one has it or not, with a long and painful struggle.
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More from Friedrich Nietzsche
"Pity is the practice of nihilism."
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
"Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss."
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?"
About Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
German philosopher of 'God is dead,' ressentiment, and the will to power, who attacked Christian moral psychology at its foundations. Closely associated with Arthur Schopenhauer (his early intellectual father, later broken with). For an intellectual contrast, see Søren Kierkegaard, Danish Christian existentialist of the leap of faith — both diagnosed modern despair, but Kierkegaard's answer was Christ and Nietzsche's was the death of God — the two existentialist roads taken from the same starting point.
The standard scholarly entry points to Friedrich Nietzsche's work: Walter Kaufmann (Princeton, the postwar Nietzsche rehabilitator) — Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (1950); Brian Leiter (University of Chicago Law School) — Nietzsche on Morality (2002); Maudemarie Clark (UC Riverside, Emerita) — Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (1990). These are the works graduate seminars cite when teaching Friedrich Nietzsche.