Friedrich Nietzsche — "Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstoo…"
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
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More from Friedrich Nietzsche
"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
"Christianity is a revolt of all creatures that crawl on the ground against everything that is lofty."
"To live—is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different?"
"There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
"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.