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
As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.
The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.
I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.
As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.
Almost two thousand years, and no new god!
And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.
Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.