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
We are all afraid of the truth.
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.
The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.
The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?
Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.