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
Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.
The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.
We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!
The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.
Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.
The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.
Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.