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
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.
The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.
We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.
It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.