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
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
Great intellects are skeptical.
Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.
How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.