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
Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.
It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.
We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.
Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.
Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.
Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.
In war personal revenge maintains its silence.