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
It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.
Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss.
As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
I have forgotten my umbrella.
Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon fall off.