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
When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.
You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!
He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.
You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!
In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.
Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.
Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.
To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
One is punished best for one's virtues.
Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.