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
Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.
Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Pity makes suffering contagious.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls
Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.