Friedrich Nietzsche — "What is freedom? The will to be responsible for oneself."
What is freedom? The will to be responsible for oneself.
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More from Friedrich Nietzsche
"Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses."
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?"
"I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?"
"The weak and the ill-constituted shall perish: first principle of our philanthropy. And one shall help them to do so."
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.