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
That which does not destroy, strengthens.
The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.
It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.