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
Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.
Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.
The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.
Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.
One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.