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
What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
Every profound spirit needs a mask.
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
I wasn't sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it's Thursday. The thing about life still applies.
Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.
Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.
Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.