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
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.
Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
There is always some madness in love.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering
I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.