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
Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live
Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?
The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.
Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.
[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.
[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.
[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.
Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.