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 end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Plato was a bore.
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.