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
There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.
It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.
Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.
I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.
There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.
Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.
The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
Certitude drives people mad.
Every word is a preconceived judgment.
It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.
Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.
One who has a why can endure anyhow.