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 have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.
When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.
Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.
And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.
When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.