Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzschewas a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest 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, and...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 October 1844
CityRocken, Germany
CountryGermany
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge....
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!
truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.