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
Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
The real world is much smaller than the imaginary
The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.