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
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner
When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'
You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.
The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.