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
Everything matters. Nothing's important.
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy...
Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Man is more ape than many of the apes.