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
Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.