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
Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.