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 abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.
Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.
Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.