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
The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.
Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.
Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.
The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.
Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.
One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.
As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.
The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.