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
The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!
Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.
Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.
It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.
Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?
We are all afraid of the truth.
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.
The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.
The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.