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
Art is the proper task of life.
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
A life without music is an error.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.