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
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!
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.
Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.
Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.
All philosophy is a form of confession.
That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.
Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.
You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.
If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.