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
I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.
A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.
But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?
A vocation is the backbone of life.
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.
A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.
They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.
Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.
It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.
When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.
The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.