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 finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.
The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.
The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.
The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.
For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.
In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.
In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
Love forgives the lover even his lust.