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
Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.
Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.
Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.
The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.
For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.
If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.
God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!
One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!