Authors
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 – 1900
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher known for his bold, challenging ideas about morality, truth, and what it means to live a meaningful life, expressed in books like Thus Spoke Zarathustra and through famous lines like "God is dead." His writing style was unusual — full of short, punchy sayings instead of long arguments — which is why he is so often quoted. His ideas continue to be debated by philosophers and readers around the world.
Quotes
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“Furthermore, the faculty for having good friends is greater in many people than the faculty for being a good friend.”
“Fellowship in joy, and, not sympathy in sorrow, makes people friends.”
“Machinery teaches in itself the dovetailed working of masses of men, in activities where each has but one thing to do. It is the model of party organisations and of warfare.”
“The machine, itself a product of the highest mental powers, sets in motion hardly any but the lower, unthinking forces of the men who serve it.”
“The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premisses of which no one has yet dared to draw the conclusions that will follow in a thousand years.”
“Machinery is impersonal; it robs the piece of work of its pride, of the individual merits and defects that cling to all work that is not machine-made—in other words, of its bit of humanity.”