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
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.