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
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.