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 inability to lie is far from the love of truth.
He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.
Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.
All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.