Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
The line was adopted from Eugene O'Neill. See XXX.
This line from one of O’Neill’s characters was adopted for a History Masthead Slogan. See XXX.
Most historians and politicians believe the reverse to be true and that is WHY history should be studied. For them, history is a means to an end. For Taylor’s point of view, it is the end.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900.
