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
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!
Some men are born posthumously.
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.