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
Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.
I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.
And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.
Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
Convictions are prisons.
Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.