born: 1844 city: Röcken, Province of Saxony, Prussia, German Confederation occupation: classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture died: 1900 city: Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Empire age: 55
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Where there have been powerful societies, governments, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force its way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart: and that annoys the tyrants
