Friedrich Nietzsche

 Friedrich Nietzsche 

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"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

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"George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalion and Saint Joan. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, Arms and the Man in 1894."

Born: July 26, 1856, Portobello, Dublin, Ireland

Died: November 2, 1950, Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England

Resting place: Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence

Occupation: Playwright, critic, polemicist, political activist

Citizenship: British (1856–1950), Irish (dual citizenship, 1934–1950)

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Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.108, Vintage

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