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 true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.