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
no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.
I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.
The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.
All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.