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 has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.